The Yale Literary Magazine, Volume 18, Issue 4Herrick & Noyes, 1853 |
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... mental ex- pression . Again , the true Critic is a lover of the ideal perfect . Criticism is a work of comparison . The pseudo - critic compares , so far as he does so at all , with some external model ; the true Critic compares with an ...
... mental ex- pression . Again , the true Critic is a lover of the ideal perfect . Criticism is a work of comparison . The pseudo - critic compares , so far as he does so at all , with some external model ; the true Critic compares with an ...
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... mental expression , and there must be some authority to call them to account for it . But to encourage and guide Genius is the noblest prerogative of the Critic . Genius is often wayward and extravagant , but it is sensitive , and ...
... mental expression , and there must be some authority to call them to account for it . But to encourage and guide Genius is the noblest prerogative of the Critic . Genius is often wayward and extravagant , but it is sensitive , and ...
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... mental combat . Nature furnishes all with an eager appetite for glory ; the adventitious circumstances of birth and education mark each out for this or that pur- suit . Ambition is naturally an ennobling attribute , but if it be ...
... mental combat . Nature furnishes all with an eager appetite for glory ; the adventitious circumstances of birth and education mark each out for this or that pur- suit . Ambition is naturally an ennobling attribute , but if it be ...
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... mental falchion attains a higher polish . With it he carves his way to fame and fortune , The dreamer hazards but a pass or two in the mental strife , when affrighted by the gleaming sparks , which fly around him , elicited by each ...
... mental falchion attains a higher polish . With it he carves his way to fame and fortune , The dreamer hazards but a pass or two in the mental strife , when affrighted by the gleaming sparks , which fly around him , elicited by each ...
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Page 126 - Arches on arches ! as it were that Rome, Collecting the chief trophies of her line, Would build up all her triumphs in one dome, Her Coliseum stands ; the moonbeams shine As 'twere its natural torches, for divine Should be the light which streams here, to illume This long-explored but still exhaustless mine Of contemplation ; and the azure gloom Of an Italian night, where the deep skies assume Hues which have words, and speak to ye of heaven, Floats o'er this vast and wondrous monument, And shadows...
Page 150 - A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace, flamed; yet from those flames No light; but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell ; hope never comes That comes to all ; but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.
Page 150 - Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.
Page 147 - Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star In his steep course? So long he seems to pause On thy bald awful head, O sovran BLANC, The Arve and Arveiron at thy base Rave ceaselessly; but thou, most awful Form! Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines, How silently! Around thee and above Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black, An ebon mass: methinks thou piercest it, As with a wedge! But when...
Page 125 - While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; 'When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; 'And when Rome falls — the World.
Page 148 - The day is done ; and slowly from the scene The stooping sun upgathers his spent shafts, And puts them back into his golden quiver...
Page 154 - Segnius irritant animos demissa per aurem Quam quae sunt oculis subjecta fidelibus et quae Ipse sibi tradit spectator.
Page 128 - rapt fancy deemeth it A metaphor of peace ;— all form a scene Where musing Solitude might love to lift Her soul above this sphere of earthliness ; Where silence undisturbed might watch alone, So cold, so bright, so still...
Page 140 - There must be nothing like it in the heavens above nor in the earth beneath nor in the waters under the earth ; and in many cases there is not.
Page 159 - Every Freshman is obliged to do any proper Errand or Message, required of him by any one in an upper class, which if he shall refuse to do, he shall be punished.