Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 154
... paints it at the first period will lose some of its later , he who paints it at the last , some of its earlier traits . Only it is to be hoped that , by pa- tience and the Muses ' aid , we may attain to that sort . inward view of the ...
... paints it at the first period will lose some of its later , he who paints it at the last , some of its earlier traits . Only it is to be hoped that , by pa- tience and the Muses ' aid , we may attain to that sort . inward view of the ...
Page 161
... paint his maiden to his fancy poor and sol- itary . Like a tree in flower , so much soft , budding , informing loveliness is society for itself , and she teaches his eye why Beauty was pictured with Loves and Graces attending her steps ...
... paint his maiden to his fancy poor and sol- itary . Like a tree in flower , so much soft , budding , informing loveliness is society for itself , and she teaches his eye why Beauty was pictured with Loves and Graces attending her steps ...
Page 163
... painting . And of poetry , the success is not attained when it lulls and satisfies , but when it astonishes and fires us with new endeavours after the unattainable . Con- cerning it , Landor inquires " whether it is not to be referred ...
... painting . And of poetry , the success is not attained when it lulls and satisfies , but when it astonishes and fires us with new endeavours after the unattainable . Con- cerning it , Landor inquires " whether it is not to be referred ...
Page 181
... paint- ed immensity , — thee , also , compared with whom all else is shadow . Thou art not Being , as Truth is , as Justice is , thou art not my soul , but a picture and effigy of that . Thou hast come to me lately , and already thou ...
... paint- ed immensity , — thee , also , compared with whom all else is shadow . Thou art not Being , as Truth is , as Justice is , thou art not my soul , but a picture and effigy of that . Thou hast come to me lately , and already thou ...
Page 201
... paint those qualities which we do not possess . The poet admires the man of energy and tactics ; the merchant breeds his son for the church or the bar and where a man is not vain and egotis- tic , you shall find what he has not by his ...
... paint those qualities which we do not possess . The poet admires the man of energy and tactics ; the merchant breeds his son for the church or the bar and where a man is not vain and egotis- tic , you shall find what he has not by his ...
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