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Page 198 - to be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern that no shade. of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion — a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back
Page 151 - tearing and rending, not the ordinary, 'domestic grunter. They represented the demon forces for ever in collision with beauty, virtue, and the gentle uses of life; they made a fine contrast in the picture with the wandering minstrel, the soft-lipped princess, the pious recluse, and the timid Israelite
Page 47 - the man himself, the artificial man, where he should not be found, so that I consider him a very artificial writer, aiming to be universal and yet constantly exposing his individuality, which his character was not of a kind to dignify. He had not sufficiently clear moral perceptions to make
Page 193 - Was Ihr den Geist der Zeiten heißt, das ist im Grund der Herren eigner Geist, in dem die Zeiten sich bespiegeln
Page 255 - that those who read them should be better able to imagine and to feel the pains and the joys of those who differ from themselves in everything but the broad fact of being struggling, erring, human creatures.
Page 208 - mysterious legend, a ghost-story, or a still more ghastly rendering of hard reality, he can charm us by a quiet idyl, shake us with laughter at his overflowing fun, or give us a piquant sensation of surprise by the ingenuity of his transitions from the lofty to the ludicrous.
Page 278 - sleepy — I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. — It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without
Page 109 - fiery might, Time may restore us in his course Goethe's sage mind and Byron's force; But where will Europe's latter hour Again find Wordsworth's healing
Page 236 - towards disintegration or towards development, — and if after all this study, he would give us the result of his observations in a book well nourished with specific facts, his work would be a valuable aid to the social and political reformer.
Page 244 - of all enquiries for the last few days, and to what result my thoughts may lead, I know not — possibly to one that will startle you; but my only desire is to know the truth; my only fear to