Art and Scenery in Europe, with Other PapersParry & McMillan, 1857 - 451 sider |
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Side 328 - Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods And mountains, and of all that we behold From this green earth, of all the mighty world Of eye and ear, both what they half create And what perceive ; well pleased to recognize In Nature and the language of the sense The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse, The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul Of all my moral being.
Side 438 - This worthless present was designed you long before it was a play; when it was only a confused mass of thoughts, tumbling over one another in the dark; when the fancy was yet in its first work, moving the sleeping images of things towards the light, there to be distinguished, and then either chosen or rejected by the judgment; it was yours, my Lord, before I could call it mine.
Side 450 - Beyond the arrows, shouts, and views of men. As oftentimes an eagle, ere the sun Throws o'er the varying earth his early ray, Stands solitary — stands immovable Upon some highest cliff, and rolls his eye, Clear, constant, unobservant, unabased, In the cold light above the dews of morn.
Side 400 - a low word scarcely ever used but in burlesque or conversation; and applied to anything a man likes, without any settled meaning/ On the other hand, officious has dropped its former good sense of obliging ; disgust has taken the notion of loathing ; and blooming, because employed as a euphemism, now bears the sinister meaning it was intended to gloss over. Romantic writers elevated...
Side 134 - Alps, shooting up into the blue heaven, aud standing together in silent mysterious vastness. It provokes not to expression, but sinks upon the stilled heart, with a strange, exquisite feeling, essentially spiritual in its solemnity and depth. Our native and familiar earth is seen expanding into the sublimity of the heavens, and we feel as if our destiny were exalted along with it. The wonder and sensibility of childhood return upon us. Niagara, — the ocean, — cathedrals, — all these, when seen...
Side 436 - Byron, however, it should be observed, 20 like all other persons of a quick sense of beauty, and sure enough of their own originality to be in no fear of paltry imputations, is a great mimic of styles and manners, and a great borrower of external character.
Side 195 - It seemed the emblem of destruction, itself, extinct. There was something about it revoltingly beautiful, disgustingly splendid. One while, its circling rim looked like the parched shore of the ever-absorbing and ever-empty sea of annihilation. Another while, it seemed like a fetid cancer on the breast of earth, destined one day to consume it. To me it was purely uncomfortable and wholly uninspiring. It seemed to freeze back fancy and sentiment to their sources. It was not terrible, it was merely...
Side 444 - His mind, probably, was one of the very greatest that was ever given to mortality. Yet it is impossible to establish that position by a direct analysis of his character, or conduct, or productions. When we look at the incidents or the results of that great career — when we contemplate the qualities by which it is marked, from its beginning to its end — the foresight which never was surprised, the judgment which nothing could deceive, the wisdom whose resources were incapable of exhaustion —...
Side 389 - Queen, with all her canvas set, and in the strength of the tide, took the lead after starting, with the Beatrice next, and then, with little .difference in order, the Volante, Constance, Arrow, and a flock of others. The America...
Side 447 - ... degree to our final success, or would have caused Great Britain to feel that no great indignity was suffered in admitting the claim to national existence of a people who had such a representative as Washington. What but the most eminent qualities of mind and feeling — discretion superhuman — readiness of invention, and dexterity of means, equal to the most desperate affairs — endurance, self-control, regulated ardor, restrained passion, caution mingled with boldness, and all the contrarieties...