Critical SketchesK. Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1894 - 259 sider |
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Side 230 - Notes are often necessary, but they are necessary evils. Let him that is yet unacquainted with the powers of Shakespeare, and who desires to feel the highest pleasure that the drama can give, read every play from the first scene to the last, with utter negligence of all his commentators.
Side 8 - Rousseau, sir, is a very bad man. I would sooner sign a sentence for his transportation, than that of any felon who has gone from the Old Bailey these many years. Yes, I should like to have him work in the plantations.
Side 239 - I have here offered, than that music, architecture, and painting, as well as poetry and oratory, are to deduce their laws and rules from the general sense and taste of mankind, and not from the principles of those arts themselves ; or, in other words, the taste is not to conform to the art, but the art to the taste.
Side 128 - Death is the great assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the drossy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust — the finer and more ethereal part mounts with the winged spirit...
Side 38 - S'il eût tenu un pinceau, dit notre auteur , il aurait peint la Vierge de Foligno; s'il eût manié le ciseau, il aurait sculpté la Psyché de Canova; s'il eût connu la langue dans laquelle on écrit les sons, il aurait noté les plaintes aériennes du vent de mer dans les fibres des pins d'Italie...
Side 38 - Ce régime me réussissait à merveille, et j'étais alors un des plus beaux enfants qui aient jamais foulé de leurs pieds nus les pierres de nos montagnes, où la race humaine est cependant si saine et si belle. Des yeux d'un bleu noir, comme ceux de ma mère ; des traits accentués, mais adoucis par une expression un peu pensive, comme était la sienne ; un éblouissant rayon de joie intérieure éclairant tout ce visage ; des cheveux...
Side 235 - Modern thought is making a fresh start from the base whence Indian and Greek philosophy set out; and, the human mind being very much what it was six-and-twenty centuries ago, there is no ground for wonder if it presents indications of a tendency to move along the old lines to the same results.
Side 233 - tis true, By force and fortune's right he stands; By fortune which is in God's hands, And strength which yet shall spring in you. This voice did on my spirit fall, Peschiera, when thy bridge I crost, ' 'Tis better to have fought and lost, Than never to have fought at all.
Side 230 - ... correction or explanation. When his attention is strongly engaged, let it disdain alike to turn aside to the name of Theobald and of Pope. Let him read on through brightness and obscurity, through integrity and corruption; let him preserve his comprehension of the dialogue and his interest in the fable. And when the pleasures of novelty have ceased, let him attempt exactness, and read the commentators.
Side 238 - I have very little faith in rules of style, though I have an unbounded faith in the virtue of cultivating direct and precise expression. But you must carry on the operation inside the mind, and not merely by practising literary deportment on paper. It is not everybody who can command the mighty rhythm of the greatest masters of human speech. But every one can make reasonably sure that he knows what he means, and whether he has found the right word.