The Writer's Art by Those who Have Practiced itHarvard University Press, 1921 - 357 pages |
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admire artist beautiful believe Besant called catalectic character composition convey copula course critics dénouement EDGAR ALLAN POE effect eloquence emotion English essay experience expression eyes fact fancy feel fiction FRANK NORRIS genius GEORGE ELIOT GEORGE HENRY LEWES give heart HERBERT SPENCER idea images imagination impression incident insincerity intellectual language less literary Literature look matter meaning ment Metonymy MICHI mind moral nature never Nevermore novel object once opinion orator original paint passion person Peter the Martyr phrases picture poem poet poetical poetry principle Raven reader reason rience ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON RSITY Saxon seen sense sentence Shakspeare Sincerity sion SITY soul speak speaker speech stanza story style success syllables taste tell things thought tion tone true truth UNIVE UNIV utter vision vulgar WILLIAM HAZLITT words write written York Sun
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Page 169 - To hear the lark begin his flight And singing startle the dull night From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise; Then to come, in spite of sorrow, And at my window bid good-morrow Through the sweetbriar, or the vine, Or the twisted eglantine: While the cock with lively din Scatters the rear of darkness thin, And to the stack, or the barn-door, Stoutly struts his dames before: Oft listening how the hounds and horn Cheerly rouse the slumbering morn, From the side of some hoar...
Page 133 - And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered. And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.
Page 59 - Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side.
Page 120 - And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon that is dreaming, And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor; And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted — nevermore!
Page 59 - A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated Majesty.
Page 237 - ... to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is a gift and not an acquisition — and, therefore, more permanently enduring. He speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain; to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation — and to the subtle but invincible conviction of solidarity that knits together the loneliness of innumerable hearts...
Page 117 - Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, by the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, '• Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou...
Page 72 - If there be, what I believe there is, in every nation, a style which never becomes obsolete, a certain mode of phraseology so consonant and congenial to the analogy and principles of its respective language, as to remain settled and unaltered...
Page 93 - The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I.
Page 119 - Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!