Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...Carey & Hart, 1841 |
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Pàgina 9
... interest which the authors in that description of literature desire to produce , seems more directly acces- sible than the love of the supernatural . It is common to all classes of mankind , and perhaps is to none so familiar as to ...
... interest which the authors in that description of literature desire to produce , seems more directly acces- sible than the love of the supernatural . It is common to all classes of mankind , and perhaps is to none so familiar as to ...
Pàgina 11
... interest which it excites is indeed a powerful spring ; but it is one which is peculiarly subject to be exhausted by coarse handling and repeated pressure . It is also of a character which it is extremely difficult to sustain , and of ...
... interest which it excites is indeed a powerful spring ; but it is one which is peculiarly subject to be exhausted by coarse handling and repeated pressure . It is also of a character which it is extremely difficult to sustain , and of ...
Pàgina 15
... interest , what the French call Contes des Fées ; meaning , by that title , to distinguish them from the ordinary popular tales of fairy folks which are cur- rent in most countries . The Conte des Fées is itself a very different ...
... interest , what the French call Contes des Fées ; meaning , by that title , to distinguish them from the ordinary popular tales of fairy folks which are cur- rent in most countries . The Conte des Fées is itself a very different ...
Pàgina 16
... interest . There are a species of antiquarians who , while others laboured to reunite and highly ornament the ancient tradi- tions of their country , have made it their business antiquos accedere fontes , to visit the ancient springs ...
... interest . There are a species of antiquarians who , while others laboured to reunite and highly ornament the ancient tradi- tions of their country , have made it their business antiquos accedere fontes , to visit the ancient springs ...
Pàgina 17
... interest even from their rugged simplicity . The Deutsche Sagen of the brothers Grimm , is an admirable work of this kind ; assembling , without any affectation either of ornamental diction or im- proved incident , the various ...
... interest even from their rugged simplicity . The Deutsche Sagen of the brothers Grimm , is an admirable work of this kind ; assembling , without any affectation either of ornamental diction or im- proved incident , the various ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 13 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, Which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; The hair of my flesh stood up...
Pàgina 12 - A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues, that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses.
Pàgina 45 - Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost, That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin or swart faery of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.
Pàgina 31 - When I lie, sit, or walk alone, I sigh, I grieve, making great...
Pàgina 412 - And thus ends all that I doubt I shall ever be able to do with my own eyes in the keeping of my Journal, I being not able to do it any longer, having done now so long as to undo my eyes almost every time that I take a pen in my hand...
Pàgina 204 - Because you are not merry : and 'twere as easy For you to laugh and leap and say you are merry, Because you are not sad. Now, by two-headed Janus, Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time : Some that will evermore peep through their eyes And laugh like parrots at a bag-piper, And other of such vinegar aspect That they'll not show their teeth in way of smile, Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable.
Pàgina 12 - The other Shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either — black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart: what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Pàgina 12 - ... shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb: Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, — For each seemed either; black he stood as night; Fierce as ten furies; terrible as hell; And shook a deadly dart. What seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. In this description all is dark, uncertain, confused, terrible and sublime to the last degree.
Pàgina 13 - In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets...
Pàgina 157 - Thornton. A SPORTING TOUR THROUGH THE NORTHERN PARTS OF ENGLAND AND GREAT PART OF THE HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND. By Colonel T. THORNTON, of Thornville Royal, in Yorkshire. With the Original Illustrations by GARRARD, and other Illustrations and Coloured Plates by GE LODGE.