... of masculine judgment, would certainly excite no sentiment of admiration, even if they did not provoke contempt. When the conduct and feelings attributed to them are reduced into prose, and brought to the test of a rational consideration, they must... Philip Van Artevelde: A Dramatic Romance - Página xixpor Sir Henry Taylor - 1834 - 593 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 576 páginas
...poetry, resolve them into their plain realities, and they are such beings as, in the eyes of a man of masculine judgment, would certainly excite no sentiment...in character? How nobly opposite to Lord Byron's, was Shakspeare's conception of a hero : — ' Oive me that man F That is not passion's slave, and I... | |
| 1834 - 566 páginas
...poetry, resolve them into their plain realities, and they are such beings as, in the eyes of a man of masculine judgment, would certainly excite no sentiment...character ? ' How nobly opposite to Lord Byron's, was Shakspeare's conception of a hero : — ' " Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I... | |
| Sir Henry Taylor - 1835 - 524 páginas
...poetry, resolve them into their plain realities, and they are such beings as, in the eyes of a man of masculine judgment, would certainly excite no sentiment...in character ? How nobly opposite to Lord Byron's, was Shakspeare's conception of a hero : — . " Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I... | |
| Robert Walsh - 1835 - 552 páginas
...sufferings for vanity, under the name of pride. If such beings as these are to be regarded as heroica!, where in human nature are we to look for what is low in sentiment, or infirm in character?" If even the energy and richness of Lord Byron's poetry was insufficient to compensate for the absence... | |
| William R. Williams - 1844 - 60 páginas
...perceived to be beings in whom there is no strength, except that of their intensely selfish passions,—in whom all is vanity; their exertions being for vanity...for what is low in sentiment, or infirm in character 1" It is not the language of theologian* We are now quoting, but the words we have transcribed are... | |
| 1869 - 862 páginas
...sufferings for vanity under the name of pride. If auch beings as these are to be regarded as hcroical, where in human nature are we to look for what is low in sentiment or infirm in character ? These words are no barren critical utterances. If they embody strict rules of art these are rules... | |
| 1845 - 592 páginas
...the mixture and modification, — nothing of the composite fabric which Nature has assigned to Man. They exhibit rather passions personified than persons...immortality from the hand of Shakspeare : — " Give me tbat man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core ; aye, in my heart of... | |
| 1845 - 572 páginas
...the mixture and modification, — nothing of the composite fabric which Nature has assigned to Man. They exhibit rather passions personified than persons...for what is low in sentiment, or infirm in character t ' How nobly opposite to Lord Byron's ideal was that conception of an heroical character which took... | |
| William R. Williams - 1850 - 404 páginas
...their sufferings for vanity under the name of pride. If such beings as these are to be regarded us heroical, where in human nature are we to look for what is low in sentiment or infirm in character ?" It is not the language of theologians we are now quoting, but the words we have transcribed are... | |
| William R. Williams - 1850 - 412 páginas
...sufferings for vanity under the name of pride. If such beings as these are to be regarded as lieroical, where in human nature are we to look for what is low in sentiment or infirm in character?" It is not the language wnai is low in enumeru or mnrm in cnaracier of theologians we are now quoting,... | |
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