Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 57W. Blackwood., 1845 |
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refined age , can genius effect such a prodigy ? how often is it crushed in the outset of its career , or turned aside into the humble and unobtrusive path of imitation , to shun the danger with which that of originality is beset ! he ...
refined age , can genius effect such a prodigy ? how often is it crushed in the outset of its career , or turned aside into the humble and unobtrusive path of imitation , to shun the danger with which that of originality is beset ! he ...
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... effect ; of observation of character with re- flection and feeling ; of graphic power with poetic fervour ; of ardour of ima- gination with rectitude of principle ; of warlike enthusiasm with pacific tenderness , which have rendered the ...
... effect ; of observation of character with re- flection and feeling ; of graphic power with poetic fervour ; of ardour of ima- gination with rectitude of principle ; of warlike enthusiasm with pacific tenderness , which have rendered the ...
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... effect from Doughby's boat , drove the beast over towards the canoe . The long slender bark darted across the animal's track with the swiftness of an arrow , and as it did so , the Indian who was standing up dealt the stag a blow that ...
... effect from Doughby's boat , drove the beast over towards the canoe . The long slender bark darted across the animal's track with the swiftness of an arrow , and as it did so , the Indian who was standing up dealt the stag a blow that ...
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... effect of such upon the fine form of the Vla- dika must be worth beholding . In another chest were deposited the . crowns of different Vladikas . They are of a shape resembling the ancient Russian diadem , being not of the form of any ...
... effect of such upon the fine form of the Vla- dika must be worth beholding . In another chest were deposited the . crowns of different Vladikas . They are of a shape resembling the ancient Russian diadem , being not of the form of any ...
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... effect and conse- quence of her beauty ? But , dear creatures ! we are not going to quar- rel with them for what gives us so much unconscious pleasure , ( we do not mean milliners ' bills , gentle reader ; ) we glory in living under a ...
... effect and conse- quence of her beauty ? But , dear creatures ! we are not going to quar- rel with them for what gives us so much unconscious pleasure , ( we do not mean milliners ' bills , gentle reader ; ) we glory in living under a ...
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Page 395 - whispers through the trees': If crystal streams 'with pleasing murmurs creep': The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with 'sleep'. Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
Page 376 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Page 130 - For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to be still and patient, all I can; And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all the natural man — This was my sole resource, my only plan : Till that which suits a part infects the whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul.
Page 392 - First follow nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring Nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art.
Page 392 - Want as much more to turn it to its use ; For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife. 'Tis more to guide than spur the Muse's steed, Restrain his fury than provoke his speed : The winged courser, like a generous horse, Shows most true mettle when you check his course.
Page 153 - What verse can do he has perform'd in this, Which he presumes the most correct of his; But spite of all his pride, a secret shame Invades his breast at...
Page 632 - He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive nature, because, as it has been truly observed of him, he has taken into the compass Of his Canterbury Tales the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation, in his age. Not a single character has escaped him.
Page 128 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Page 488 - I HEARD a voice from heaven, saying unto me, Write, From henceforth blessed are the dead which die in the Lord : even so saith the Spirit ; for they rest from their labours.
Page 397 - Some beauties yet no Precepts can declare, For there's a happiness as well as care. ( Music resembles Poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master-hand alone can reach. ) '45 If, where the rules not far enough extend, (Since rules were made but to promote their end) Some lucky Licence answer to the full Th' intent propos'd, that Licence is a rule.