The Yale Literary Magazine, Volume 18, Issue 4Herrick & Noyes, 1853 |
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... position in the system of literary action ? -The true Critic is a philosopher . Take Newton as a specimen of this class ; upon what rests his claim to the title of philosopher ? He surveyed the phenomena of Nature , and from their ...
... position in the system of literary action ? -The true Critic is a philosopher . Take Newton as a specimen of this class ; upon what rests his claim to the title of philosopher ? He surveyed the phenomena of Nature , and from their ...
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... position to criticise . The true Critic is also a man of invention . Genius and Taste , it is often said , do not necessarily coexist . True , they do not in the same measure ; we can appreciate and enjoy , without being able to create ...
... position to criticise . The true Critic is also a man of invention . Genius and Taste , it is often said , do not necessarily coexist . True , they do not in the same measure ; we can appreciate and enjoy , without being able to create ...
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... position of the Critic is as exalted as his duties are arduous . He is the Chief Justice in the judiciary of Literature . Before his tribunal are summoned the productions of the past and present . The rule of judgment is the proper ...
... position of the Critic is as exalted as his duties are arduous . He is the Chief Justice in the judiciary of Literature . Before his tribunal are summoned the productions of the past and present . The rule of judgment is the proper ...
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... position . He stands at the focus of human life . The whole world is reflected to him in the en- raptured strains of the poet . Do the human passions rage ? He sees them pictured on the historic and dramatic scroll ; and while he thus ...
... position . He stands at the focus of human life . The whole world is reflected to him in the en- raptured strains of the poet . Do the human passions rage ? He sees them pictured on the historic and dramatic scroll ; and while he thus ...
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... position all day , jumps from bed by mere force of habit ; finds himself rubbing his eyes in middle of the floor , and con- cludes to pass the remainder of the day in an upright manner 61 o'clock . 7 o'clock . 7 o'clock . -Straightway ...
... position all day , jumps from bed by mere force of habit ; finds himself rubbing his eyes in middle of the floor , and con- cludes to pass the remainder of the day in an upright manner 61 o'clock . 7 o'clock . 7 o'clock . -Straightway ...
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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.