A Selection from the Writings of Henry R. Cleveland: With a MemoirFreeman and Bolles, 1844 - 384 頁 |
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... existence will re- ceive , perhaps , its deepest impress at his hands : the busi- ness he is to commence will never end : he is to form , in his pupils , habits of mind that are never to be lost ; to develope thoughts that will expand ...
... existence will re- ceive , perhaps , its deepest impress at his hands : the busi- ness he is to commence will never end : he is to form , in his pupils , habits of mind that are never to be lost ; to develope thoughts that will expand ...
第 8 頁
... existence , and each aiding to develop and perfect the other ; and he frequently alludes to this connection in his admirable lectures upon sculp- ture . In his remarks upon " ancient art , " he says , " The poems of Hesiod , Sappho ...
... existence , and each aiding to develop and perfect the other ; and he frequently alludes to this connection in his admirable lectures upon sculp- ture . In his remarks upon " ancient art , " he says , " The poems of Hesiod , Sappho ...
第 9 頁
... employ ? The Parthenon , the form of which is known to most of our readers , seemed but a magnificent comment upon the preceding poetry which called it into existence . Strength , majesty , and power were " pillared " FELTON'S HOMER . 9.
... employ ? The Parthenon , the form of which is known to most of our readers , seemed but a magnificent comment upon the preceding poetry which called it into existence . Strength , majesty , and power were " pillared " FELTON'S HOMER . 9.
第 15 頁
... existence : a belief on the part of the artists , not only in the religion they professed , but in the dignity and grandeur of their whole subject ; a deep conviction of its truth , its worthiness to call forth their highest efforts ...
... existence : a belief on the part of the artists , not only in the religion they professed , but in the dignity and grandeur of their whole subject ; a deep conviction of its truth , its worthiness to call forth their highest efforts ...
第 16 頁
... existence and attributes , and were impressed with the character , of the Deity , whose visible image it was their high duty to portray . Hence the inspiration of their works : and hence that undefinable but evident superiority of the ...
... existence and attributes , and were impressed with the character , of the Deity , whose visible image it was their high duty to portray . Hence the inspiration of their works : and hence that undefinable but evident superiority of the ...
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第 106 頁 - ... nature, without the strength of nerve which forms a hero, sinks beneath a burden which it cannot bear and must not cast away. All duties are holy for him; the present is too hard. Impossibilities have been required of him ; not in themselves impossibilities, but such for him. He winds, and turns, and torments himself; he advances and recoils ; is ever put in mind, ever puts himself in mind ; at last does all but lose his purpose from his thoughts ; yet still without recovering his peace of mind.
第 326 頁 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.
第 105 頁 - There is an oak-tree planted in a costly jar, which should have borne only pleasant flowers in its bosom; the roots expand, the jar is shivered. A lovely, pure, noble and most moral nature, without the strength of nerve which forms a hero, sinks beneath a burden which it cannot bear and must not cast away.
第 29 頁 - ... consists in nothing but the attempt to give perfection to the human race. It is thus an image of human nature itself; endowed with a miserable foresight and bound down to a narrow existence, without an ally and with nothing' to oppose to the combined and inexorable powers of nature, but an unshaken will, and the consciousness of elevated claims.
第 265 頁 - Over the hill and over the dale, And he went over the plain, And backward and forward he switched his long tail As a gentleman switches his cane.
第 2 頁 - My wish has been to lead the young student to read the poem, not in the spirit of a school-boy conning a dull lesson to be " construed " and " parsed " and forgotten when the hour of recitation is at an end, but in the delightful consciousness that he is employing his mind upon one of the noblest monuments of the genius of man. Whatever his conclusions may be, as to the...
第 216 頁 - The Faerie Queen was received with a burst of general welcome. It became "the delight of every accomplished gentleman, the model of every poet, the solace of every soldier.
第 217 頁 - For the rest, his obsolete language, and the ill choice of his stanza, are faults but of the second magnitude ; for, notwithstanding the first, he is still intelligible, at least after a little practice; and for the last, he is the more to be admired, that, labouring under such a difficulty, his verses are so numerous, so various, and so harmonious, that only Virgil, whom he professedly imitated, has surpassed him among the Romans, and only Mr. Waller among the English.
第 11 頁 - ... the world. Four stupendous structures of fine marble in one group — the solemn cathedral, in the general parallelogram of its form resembling an ancient temple, which unites and simplifies the arched divisions of its exterior — the...
第 6 頁 - No modern sculptor, according to the opinions of the best judges, has imbibed more thoroughly the spirit of grace and beauty which belongs preeminently to ancient art. His mind may be said to have been cast in a Grecian mould...