Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, 60. ciltJohn Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1863 |
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Sayfa 394 - to be so displaced." But this is even surpassed by the rare beauty of the following image of the effect of a strain of music in darkness : " How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled.
Sayfa 364 - it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound. " Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace ; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free : Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art : They strike mine eyes but not my heart.
Sayfa 236 - saw Kilimanjaro, Kenia, and other Mountains of the Moon, towering into the region of perpetual snow. " 'And of the cannibals that each other eat; The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.' " This is a very fair description of the human features usually associated with this region; but upon these human features we
Sayfa 391 - relation or inference. Such is that in which the ruined archangel, in whom " the excess of glory obscured" is compared to the sun new risen, that " Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams, or from
Sayfa 352 - length Hyder Al i found that he had to do with men who either would sign no convention, or whom no treaty, and no signature could bind, and who were the determined enemies of human intereourse itself, he decreed to make the country possessed by these incorrigible and predestinated criminals a memorable example to mankind.
Sayfa 393 - Madeline, who sleeps an azure-lidded sleep, in blanched linen, white and laundered : "He from the closet brought a heap Of candied apple, quince, and plum, and gourd, With jellies soother than the creamy curd, And lucent
Sayfa 352 - to that new havoc. A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants flying from their flaming villages, in part were slaughtered ; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or
Sayfa 390 - At which the universal host up sent A shout that tore Hell's concave, and beyond Frightened the reign of Chaos and old Night." All Milton's images are remarkable for imaginative combinations, and, when chosen materially to illustrate a material object, they are so managed as to expand our conception of it by some
Sayfa 416 - of hell sighed when the incestuous mother uttered the abhorred name of death, the sound was reverberated — everlasting farewells ! and again, and yet again reverberated—everlasting farewells !" With this picture—sublime as the Last Judgment of Tintoret — we close our notice of what the writer calls " that impassioned parenthesis in my life." De Quincey, who had the gift of a
Sayfa 416 - through all its stages—was evolving itself like the catastrophe of some mighty drama, with which my sympathy was the more insupportable, from deepening confusion as to its local scene, its cause, its nature, and its undecipherable issue. I (as is usual in dreams, where, of necessity, we make ourselves central to every