EssaysHoughton, Mifflin Company, 1883 - 270 pages |
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Page 14
... talents , or of industry and skill in metre , but of the true poet . I took part in a conversation the other day concerning a recent writer of lyrics , a man of subtle mind , whose head appeared to be a music- box of delicate tunes and ...
... talents , or of industry and skill in metre , but of the true poet . I took part in a conversation the other day concerning a recent writer of lyrics , a man of subtle mind , whose head appeared to be a music- box of delicate tunes and ...
Page 15
... talents who sing , and not the chil- dren of music . The argument is secondary , the finish of the verses is primary . For it is not metres , but a metre - making argu- ment that makes a poem , a thought so passionate and alive that ...
... talents who sing , and not the chil- dren of music . The argument is secondary , the finish of the verses is primary . For it is not metres , but a metre - making argu- ment that makes a poem , a thought so passionate and alive that ...
Page 16
... to us is in the veracity of its report . Talent may frolic and juggle ; genius realizes and adds . Mankind in good earnest have availed so far in understanding themselves and their work , that the foremost 16 THE POET .
... to us is in the veracity of its report . Talent may frolic and juggle ; genius realizes and adds . Mankind in good earnest have availed so far in understanding themselves and their work , that the foremost 16 THE POET .
Page 54
... talent to a cold and defective nature ? Who cares what sensibility or discrimination a man has at some time shown , if he falls asleep in his chair ? or if he laugh and gig- gle ? or if he apologize ? or is infected with ego- tism ? or ...
... talent to a cold and defective nature ? Who cares what sensibility or discrimination a man has at some time shown , if he falls asleep in his chair ? or if he laugh and gig- gle ? or if he apologize ? or is infected with ego- tism ? or ...
Page 60
... talent , and the mastery of suc- cessful men consists in adroitly keeping themselves where and when that turn shall be oftenest to be practised . We do what we must , and call it by the best names we can , and would fain have the praise ...
... talent , and the mastery of suc- cessful men consists in adroitly keeping themselves where and when that turn shall be oftenest to be practised . We do what we must , and call it by the best names we can , and would fain have the praise ...
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