The Author: A Poem, in Four BooksW. Allan, 1854 - 122 páginas |
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advent'rous Anon Appendix aspire bard bless blest breast bright brow Byron Cicero dark dream e'en earth Edgar Allan Poe Edinburgh Review enterprise ev'ry evoke exults eyes fame fancy feels fire flowing forsooth genius give glow grand Greece haply hath heaven hero immortal impulse inspiration intellectual John Foster knowledge language light literary literature live lute lyre mankind mental mighty mind mind's moral mountain muse nature nature's Neath never night noble Note o'er pass poet poet's Pollok possest R. W. Hamilton Readers are pupils rise sage scene secret seize shade Shakespeare shine sight skies smile soul spirit SPLEEN STANFORD UNIVERSITY stars stir stream sublime T. B. Browne taste refined theme things thought Tis pleasant toil true truth Twas virtue vision wake wave Whilst wind wise wonder word worlds of thought write youthful
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Página 20 - Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, although there's nothing in't.
Página 110 - Most writers, poets in especial, prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy, an ecstatic intuition, and would positively shudder at letting the public take a peep behind the scenes at the elaborate and vacillating crudities of thought ; at the true purposes seized only at the last moment ; at the innumerable glimpses of idea that arrived not at the maturity of full view; at the full matured fancies discarded in despair as unmanageable; at the cautious selections and...
Página 84 - The end, then, of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.
Página 116 - Has it induced you to suspect that what you have been accustomed to think unlawful may after all be innocent, and that that may be harmless which you have hitherto been taught to think dangerous? Has it tended to make you dissatisfied and impatient under the control of others; and disposed you to relax in that self-government, without which both the laws of God and man tell us there can be no virtue — and consequently no happiness?
Página 59 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed ? a beast, no more. Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unused.
Página 116 - ... dangerous ? Has it tended to make you dissatisfied and impatient under the control of others, and disposed you to relax in that self-government without which both the laws of God and man tell us there can be no virtue, and consequently no happiness? Has it attempted to abate your admiration and reverence for what is great and good, and to diminish in you the love of your country, and your fellow-creatures?
Página 84 - ... true eloquence I find to be none but the serious and hearty love of truth; and that whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words, by what I can express, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command, and in well-ordered files, as he would wish, fall aptly into their own places.
Página 110 - I have often thought how interesting a magazine paper might be written by any author who would- that is to say, who could- detail, step by step, the processes by which any one of his compositions attained its ultimate point of completion.
Página 117 - Has it defiled the imagination with what is loathsome, and shocked the heart with what is monstrous? Has it disturbed the sense of right and wrong which the Creator has implanted in the human soul? If so, if you are conscious of...
Página 114 - GENIUS or originality is, for the most part, some strong quality in the mind, answering to and bringing out some new and striking quality in nature. Imagination is, more properly, the power of carrying on a given feeling into other situations, which must be done best according to the hold which the feeling itself has taken of the...