Pieces of a Broken-down Critic: Picked Up by Himself, Volumes 1-4Scotzniovsky, 1858 |
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... write , without some ulterior aim - the advocacy of some principle or sentiment . A man of vivid imagination is generally , ( if indeed we must not say ne- cessarily , ) also a man of strong personal feelings and partisan tendencies ...
... write , without some ulterior aim - the advocacy of some principle or sentiment . A man of vivid imagination is generally , ( if indeed we must not say ne- cessarily , ) also a man of strong personal feelings and partisan tendencies ...
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... write as truthfully as the author of " Indian and Ingin " we should be content to have them all write as clumsily . TRANSLATORS OF HOMER . * American Review , October 1846 . " BELIER , mon ami , commencez par le commence- ment . ' As we ...
... write as truthfully as the author of " Indian and Ingin " we should be content to have them all write as clumsily . TRANSLATORS OF HOMER . * American Review , October 1846 . " BELIER , mon ami , commencez par le commence- ment . ' As we ...
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... write good prose ; why should not the same rule hold good in the case of poetry ? Then the facts of the case are ... writer ? Must a man be a great historian to trans- late Thucydides well ? Or a great novelist to translate Balzac well ...
... write good prose ; why should not the same rule hold good in the case of poetry ? Then the facts of the case are ... writer ? Must a man be a great historian to trans- late Thucydides well ? Or a great novelist to translate Balzac well ...
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... writer of parodies , and his serious poem , Hermotimus , is a work of much promise . Yet no one would call him a great poet ; and no one who has read Blackwood's Anthological articles can help calling him a great translator . But here ...
... writer of parodies , and his serious poem , Hermotimus , is a work of much promise . Yet no one would call him a great poet ; and no one who has read Blackwood's Anthological articles can help calling him a great translator . But here ...
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... writer , " could not be satisfied with him as a translator . His own version is one of the closest possibles . He pays great attention to the similes , the epithets , and what we may call the refrain lines . He presents Homer in all his ...
... writer , " could not be satisfied with him as a translator . His own version is one of the closest possibles . He pays great attention to the similes , the epithets , and what we may call the refrain lines . He presents Homer in all his ...
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Page 188 - Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white; Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk; Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font: The fire-fly wakens: waken thou with me. Now droops the milkwhite peacock like a ghost. And like a ghost she glimmers on to me. Now lies the Earth all Danae to the stars, And all thy heart lies open untD me.
Page 174 - OF old sat Freedom on the heights, The thunders breaking at her feet : Above her shook the starry lights : She heard the torrents meet. There in her place she did rejoice, Self-gather'd in her prophet-mind, But fragments of her mighty voice Came rolling on the wind. Then stept she down thro...
Page 188 - ... font : The fire-fly wakens : waken thou with me. Now droops the milkwhite peacock like a ghost, And like a ghost she glimmers on to me. Now lies the Earth all Danae to the stars, And all thy heart lies open unto me. Now slides the silent meteor on, and leaves A shining furrow, as thy thoughts in me. Now folds the lily all her sweetness up, And slips into the bosom of the lake : So fold thyself, my dearest, thou, and slip Into my bosom and be lost in me.
Page 189 - Happy he With such a mother ! faith in womankind Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high Comes easy to him, and tho' he trip and fall He shall not blind his soul with clay.
Page 207 - Moreover his mother made him a little coat, and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.
Page 189 - ... whom I loved her, one Not learned, save in gracious household ways, Not perfect, nay, but full of tender wants, No Angel, but a dearer being, all dipt In Angel instincts, breathing Paradise, Interpreter between the Gods and men, Who...
Page 174 - LOVE thou thy land, with love far brought From out the storied Past, and used Within the Present, but transfused Through future time by power of thought.
Page 45 - Join all, and try the omnipotence of Jove : Let down our golden, everlasting chain, Whose strong embrace holds heaven, and earth, and main: Strive all, of mortal, and immortal birth, To drag, by this, the Thunderer down to earth Ye strive in vain ! If I but stretch this hand, I heave the gods, the ocean, and the land; I fix the chain to great Olympus' height, And the vast world hangs trembling in my sight!
Page 15 - With these thou seest — if indeed I go (For all my mind is clouded with a doubt) To the island-valley of Avilion; Where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow. Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.
Page 260 - Eugh, obedient to the benders will ; The Birch for shaftes ; the Sallow for the mill ; The Mirrhe sweete-bleeding in the bitter wound ; The warlike Beech ; the Ash for nothing ill ; The fruitful! Olive ; and the Platane round ; The carver Holme ; the Maple seeldom inward sound.