Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 2; Volume 65Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1865 |
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... taste too lofty to admire its trivial charms . Setting aside the higher claims of landscape painting , the difficulties it meets and conquers may reasonably be adduced in its defence . The grandest things in nature must be painted from ...
... taste too lofty to admire its trivial charms . Setting aside the higher claims of landscape painting , the difficulties it meets and conquers may reasonably be adduced in its defence . The grandest things in nature must be painted from ...
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... taste of Englishmen . To ceived opinions , he took an independent many of M. Taine's principles and opin- line of his own , which he was able to ions we entertain strong objections ; but hold with spirit and a happy confidence though we ...
... taste of Englishmen . To ceived opinions , he took an independent many of M. Taine's principles and opin- line of his own , which he was able to ions we entertain strong objections ; but hold with spirit and a happy confidence though we ...
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... taste for do- mestic life as well as drunkenness . † " It is not with such instincts , " says M. Taine , " that a people quickly attain cultivation . " This is his cherished theme ; he is never weary of dilating upon our climate , our ...
... taste for do- mestic life as well as drunkenness . † " It is not with such instincts , " says M. Taine , " that a people quickly attain cultivation . " This is his cherished theme ; he is never weary of dilating upon our climate , our ...
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... taste , in method , in clearness and piqu- ancy of style ; and these arts they were now to teach the Saxons . $ For two hundred years the literature of the coun- try was French . The ruling race even strove to efface the Saxon tongue ...
... taste , in method , in clearness and piqu- ancy of style ; and these arts they were now to teach the Saxons . $ For two hundred years the literature of the coun- try was French . The ruling race even strove to efface the Saxon tongue ...
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... taste . He has spared no pains to make his countrymen familiar with our best writers , by admirable translations of selected passages , the originals appearing in the notes . So true and spirited are * Vol . i . pp . 103--160 . some of ...
... taste . He has spared no pains to make his countrymen familiar with our best writers , by admirable translations of selected passages , the originals appearing in the notes . So true and spirited are * Vol . i . pp . 103--160 . some of ...
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Page 408 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's •waste...
Page 83 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Page 59 - Europe as being, for intellectual and spiritual purposes, one great confederation, bound to a joint action and working to a common result...
Page 62 - ... the best ideas, on every matter which literature touches, current at the time; at any rate we may lay it down as certain that in modern literature no manifestation of the creative power not working with these can be very important or fruitful. And I say current at the time...
Page 77 - Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 59 - ... outfit, a knowledge of Greek, Roman, and Eastern antiquity, and of one another. Special, local, and temporary advantages being put out of account, that modern nation will in the intellectual and spiritual sphere make most progress, which most thoroughly carries out this programme.
Page 292 - ... days since I was compelled to give a note for seven pounds, to avoid an arrest for about double that sum which I owe. I wrote to every friend I had, but my friends are poor likewise : the time of payment approached, and I ventured to represent my case to Lord Rochford.
Page 62 - ... the grand work of literary genius is a work of synthesis and exposition, not of analysis and discovery ; its gift lies in the faculty of being happily inspired by a certain intellectual and spiritual atmosphere, by a certain order of ideas, when it finds itself in them ; of dealing divinely with these ideas, presenting them in the most effective and attractive combinations, making beautiful works with them, in short.
Page 181 - Where be your gibes now ? your gambols ? your songs ? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table in a roar ? Not one now, to mock your own grinning?
Page 69 - And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age, who will deny that Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling us nearer to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection — to beauty in a word, which is only truth seen from another side?