Among My Books: Second SeriesOsgood, 1876 - 327 sider |
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Side 252
... Masson is giving to that of Milton , their authors should send a phial of elixir vitæ with the first volume , that a purchaser might have some valid assur- ance of surviving to see the last . Mr. Masson has al- ready occupied thirteen ...
... Masson is giving to that of Milton , their authors should send a phial of elixir vitæ with the first volume , that a purchaser might have some valid assur- ance of surviving to see the last . Mr. Masson has al- ready occupied thirteen ...
Side 253
... Masson's temperament , we may be pardoned if a sigh of doubt and discouragement escape us . We envy the secular leisures of Methusaleh , and are thankful that his biography at least ( if written in the same longeval proportion ) is ...
... Masson's temperament , we may be pardoned if a sigh of doubt and discouragement escape us . We envy the secular leisures of Methusaleh , and are thankful that his biography at least ( if written in the same longeval proportion ) is ...
Side 254
... Masson's covert sarcasm . confess with shame a pusillanimity that is apt to flag if a to be continued " do not redeem its promise before the lapse of a quinquennium . I could scarce await the " Autocrat " himself so long . The heroic ...
... Masson's covert sarcasm . confess with shame a pusillanimity that is apt to flag if a to be continued " do not redeem its promise before the lapse of a quinquennium . I could scarce await the " Autocrat " himself so long . The heroic ...
Side 256
... Masson to find out that they have no relation whatever to his hero . He had been wise if he had kept constantly in view what Milton himself says of those who gathered up personal traditions concerning the Apostles : " With less fervency ...
... Masson to find out that they have no relation whatever to his hero . He had been wise if he had kept constantly in view what Milton himself says of those who gathered up personal traditions concerning the Apostles : " With less fervency ...
Side 257
... Masson's resolute " at all events " is very amusing . Meanwhile " The hungry sheep look up and are not fed . " Augustine Thierry has a great deal to answer for , if to him we owe the modern fashion of writing history picturesquely . At ...
... Masson's resolute " at all events " is very amusing . Meanwhile " The hungry sheep look up and are not fed . " Augustine Thierry has a great deal to answer for , if to him we owe the modern fashion of writing history picturesquely . At ...
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Side 296 - Him the Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky, With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
Side 1 - Rossetti. - A SHADOW OF DANTE : being an Essay towards studying Himself, his World and his Pilgrimage.
Side 71 - So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you.
Side 275 - Lastly, I should not choose this manner of writing, wherein knowing myself inferior to myself, led by the genial power of nature to another task, I have the use, as I may account, but of my left hand.
Side 214 - THE cock is crowing, The stream is flowing, The small birds twitter, The lake doth glitter, The green field sleeps in the sun ; The oldest and youngest Are at work with the strongest ; The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising ; There are forty feeding like one ! Like an army defeated The Snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill...
Side 313 - The Genius of Poetry must work out its own salvation in a man. It cannot be matured by law and precept, but by sensation and watchfulness in itself. That which is creative must create itself.
Side 280 - A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses.
Side 183 - To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe ! How oft do they their silver 'bowers leave To come to succour us that succour want ! How oft do they with golden...
Side 300 - THE measure is English heroic verse without rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin, — rime being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse, in longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre...
Side 318 - After regarding it steadfastly, he looked up in my face with a calmness of countenance that I can never forget, and said, ' I know the colour of that blood — it is arterial blood — I cannot be deceived in that colour — that drop of blood is my deathwarrant — I must die.