Shelburne Essays: 3rd seriesPutnam, 1905 - 265 strani |
Iz vsebine knjige
Zadetki 1–5 od 69
Stran 4
... mind would pass without a shock from the simple recital in prose of Cowper's ruined days to these phrases at once so metaphorical and so conventional , and would find in them a new power to move the heart . Or compare with the sentiment ...
... mind would pass without a shock from the simple recital in prose of Cowper's ruined days to these phrases at once so metaphorical and so conventional , and would find in them a new power to move the heart . Or compare with the sentiment ...
Stran 14
... mind dwelt on the power and mercies of Providence , this self - con- sciousness united with his Calvinism to produce the belief that God had determined to ensnare and destroy his soul . Such was the strange twist that accompanied the ...
... mind dwelt on the power and mercies of Providence , this self - con- sciousness united with his Calvinism to produce the belief that God had determined to ensnare and destroy his soul . Such was the strange twist that accompanied the ...
Stran 15
... mind , I experience , as you do , the slipperiness of the present hour , and the rapidity with which time escapes me . Every thing around us , and every thing that befalls us , constitutes a variety , which , whether agreeable or ...
... mind , I experience , as you do , the slipperiness of the present hour , and the rapidity with which time escapes me . Every thing around us , and every thing that befalls us , constitutes a variety , which , whether agreeable or ...
Stran 16
... mind by the unexpected word or phrase be- comes a little wearisome in the end . The attrac- tion of Cowper's style is in the perfect balance of the members , an art which has become almost lost since the eighteenth century , and in the ...
... mind by the unexpected word or phrase be- comes a little wearisome in the end . The attrac- tion of Cowper's style is in the perfect balance of the members , an art which has become almost lost since the eighteenth century , and in the ...
Stran 26
... mind . " My thoughts , " he writes to Lady Hesketh , " are like loose and dry sand , which the closer it is grasped slips the sooner away " ; and again to the same faithful friend from Mundesley on the coast : The cliff is here of a ...
... mind . " My thoughts , " he writes to Lady Hesketh , " are like loose and dry sand , which the closer it is grasped slips the sooner away " ; and again to the same faithful friend from Mundesley on the coast : The cliff is here of a ...
Druge izdaje - Prikaži vse
Pogosti izrazi in povedi
beauty Boileau Browning Browning's Byron called character charm Christina Rossetti Church confession Cowper critic death divine doubt dreams Eliza emotion England English essays eyes faith feel feminine G. P. Putnam's Sons genius hand haps heart heaven honour Hugo human humour ideal imagination John Inglesant Journal to Eliza kind Lady language Laurence Sterne letters light literature living look man's matter memory mind motion mystic nature never novel Olney passed passion peace peculiar phenomena philosophy Plato poet poet's poetry prose reader religion religious romantic Sainte-Beuve scene Scotch seems sense sentiment Shandy Hall Shorthouse song soul spirit Sterne Sterne's story strange sweet Swinburne Swinburne's Thackeray thee things thou thought tion to-day Tristram Shandy truth turn verse Victor Hugo Vincent Bourne vision voice Whittier William Cowper words worldly writing written wrote Yorick
Priljubljeni odlomki
Stran 159 - Spite of this flesh to-day I strove, made head, gained ground upon the whole!" As the bird wings and sings, Let us cry, "All good things Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul!
Stran 41 - And so beside the Silent Sea I wait the muffled oar ; No harm from Him can come to me On ocean or on shore. I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.
Stran 45 - They are all gone into the world of light! And I alone sit lingering here ; Their very memory is fair and bright, And my sad thoughts doth clear; It glows and glitters in my cloudy breast, Like stars upon some gloomy grove, Or those faint beams in which this hill is drest After the sun's remove.
Stran 1 - Thy nightly visits to my chamber made That thou mightst know me safe and warmly laid , Thy morning bounties ere I left my home. The biscuit, or confectionary plum...
Stran 19 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Stran 136 - Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend.
Stran 1 - Tis now become a history little known, That once we called the pastoral house our own. Short-lived possession ! But the record fair, That memory keeps of all thy kindness there, Still outlives many a storm, that has effaced A thousand other themes less deeply traced.
Stran 1 - I see, The same that oft in childhood solaced me; Voice only fails, else, how distinct they say, 'Grieve not, my child, chase all thy fears away!
Stran 23 - Twas my distress that brought thee low, My Mary ! Thy needles, once a shining store, For my sake restless heretofore, Now rust disused, and shine no more ; My Mary ! For though thou gladly wouldst fulfil The same kind office for me still, Thy sight now seconds not thy will...
Stran 46 - After the sun's remove. I see them walking in an air of glory, Whose light doth trample on my days; My days, which are at best but dull and hoary, Mere glimmering and decays.