The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors: 1891-1904Charles Wells Moulton Moulton Publishing Company, 1904 |
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Page 134 - I am not blind to the worth of the wonderful gift of "Leaves of Grass." I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed.
Page 93 - The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying. O hark, O hear ! how thin and clear, And thinner, clearer, farther going ! O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing ! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying: Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Page 235 - ALL through my boyhood and youth, I was known and pointed out for the pattern of an idler ; and yet I was always busy on my own private end, which was to learn to write. I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. As I walked, my mind was busy fitting what I saw with appropriate words ; when I sat by the roadside, I would either read, or a pencil and a penny version-book...
Page 120 - There is Whittier, whose swelling and vehement heart Strains the strait-breasted drab, of the Quaker apart, And reveals the live Man, still supreme and erect Underneath the bemummying wrappers of sect ; There was ne'er a man born who had more of the swing Of the true lyric bard and all that kind of thing...
Page 384 - The State in its Relations with the Church. BY WE GLADSTONE, Esq. , Student of Christ Church, and MP for Newark. 8vo. Second Edition. London : 1839. THE author of this volume is a young man of unblemished character, and of distinguished parliamentary talents, the rising hope of those stern and unbending Tories...
Page 147 - He is no arguer, he is judgment (Nature accepts him absolutely), He judges not as the judge judges but as the sun falling round a helpless thing...
Page 209 - Georgia's full and sweet approval he might "wrap the drapery of his couch about him and lie down to pleasant dreams...
Page 46 - twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time, its form and pressure.
Page 31 - There is Lowell, who's striving Parnassus to climb With a whole bale of isms tied together with rhyme, He might get on alone, spite of brambles and boulders, But he can't with that bundle he has on his shoulders...
Page 134 - I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed. I am very happy in reading it, as great power makes us happy. It meets the demand I am always making of what seems the sterile and stingy nature, as if too much handiwork, or too much lymph in the temperament, were making our Western wits fat and mean.