Literature and Life |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 51
Page 11
... expression . A change in thought or prejudice works out , in the end , a change in governments and laws . " Beware , " says a brilliant essayist , " when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet . Then a things are at risk ...
... expression . A change in thought or prejudice works out , in the end , a change in governments and laws . " Beware , " says a brilliant essayist , " when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet . Then a things are at risk ...
Page 44
... through sentiment , incident , and character , a complete philosophy of life , and admitting a dramatic and narrative expression of the abstract princ ples of ethics , metaphysics , and theology . Its 44 NOVELS AND NOVELISTS :
... through sentiment , incident , and character , a complete philosophy of life , and admitting a dramatic and narrative expression of the abstract princ ples of ethics , metaphysics , and theology . Its 44 NOVELS AND NOVELISTS :
Page 52
... expression of the human heart and imagination . It is principally from this vapid class of novels that the contemporary parental objection to works of fiction has arisen . Even at the period of their popularity , they were mostly ...
... expression of the human heart and imagination . It is principally from this vapid class of novels that the contemporary parental objection to works of fiction has arisen . Even at the period of their popularity , they were mostly ...
Page 59
... expression peculiarly his own . His characters , like those of his great exemplars , constitute a world of their own , whose truth to nature every reader instinctively recognizes in connection with their truth to Dickens . Fielding ...
... expression peculiarly his own . His characters , like those of his great exemplars , constitute a world of their own , whose truth to nature every reader instinctively recognizes in connection with their truth to Dickens . Fielding ...
Page 75
... expression . " When she watches at the window for the return of Sim Tap- pertit , with the intention of betraying him , she is de- scribed as " having an expression of face in which a great number of opposite ingredients , such as ...
... expression . " When she watches at the window for the return of Sim Tap- pertit , with the intention of betraying him , she is de- scribed as " having an expression of face in which a great number of opposite ingredients , such as ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Æneid affections appears beauty become brain Byron Cæsar caricature character Charles Dickens Coleridge common conception conservatism contempt creative death delight Dickens disease earth embodied energy English evil expression fact faculty fancy feeling fiction fire folly force forms genial genius George Wither give hatred heart heaven human nature humor ideal ideas images imagination impulse individual influence insight intel intellectual intelligence language laugh laughter light literature living ludicrous Lyrical Ballads malignant Martin Chuzzlewit meditation mental Milton mind mirth misanthropy moral ness never novelist novels objects Ode to Duty opinions passion Pecksniff peculiar person Peter Bell Peter Mark Roget philanthropy poems poet poetic poetry pride principle Rabelais reform ribaldry Satanic satire scorn selfishness sense sensibility sentiment Shakspeare society soul spirit stupid sweet Sydney Smith talent Thersites things thou thought tion truth virtue vital weakness whole words Wordsworth writers
Popular passages
Page 271 - For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth ; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Not harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue.
Page 272 - Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is...
Page 301 - Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Page 294 - The floating clouds their state shall lend To her; for her the willow bend; » Nor shall she fail to see Even in the motions of the storm Grace that shall mould the maiden's form By silent sympathy.
Page 218 - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases.
Page 267 - How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it. And hark! how blithe the throstle sings! He, too, is no mean preacher: Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher.
Page 294 - Three years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said, "A lovelier flower On earth was never sown; This child I to myself will take; She shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own. "Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse: and with me The girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower. Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain.
Page 300 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence...
Page 271 - The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Page 272 - ... 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.