Sketches And Essays
Sketches And Essays
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The glowing and ■' Pharsalva, lib. 8. ON READING NEW BOOKS 9 impetuous lines which slip niurmured, as she passed on, with spontaneous and rising enthusiasm^ were eng-raven on her heart, familiar to her as her daily thoughts ; her mind must have heen full of them to overflowing, and at the same time enriched with other stores and sources of knowledge equally elegant and impressive ; and we persist, notwithstandinj^ 'this and a thousand similar circumstances, in indulging our surprise how people ...could exist, and see, and feel, in those days, without ha'ing access to our opportunities and acquirements, and how Shakspeare wrote long after, in a harbarom ape! 'Ilie mystery in this case is of our own making. ^'e are struck with astonishment at finding a fine moral sentiment or a noble image nervously expressed in an author of the age of Queen Elizabeth ; not con- sidering that, independently of nature and feeling, which are the same in all periods, the writers of that day, who were generally men of education and learning, had such models before them as the one that has heen just referred to — were thoroughly acquainted with those masters of classic thought and language, com- pared with whom, in all that relates to the artificial graces of composition, the most studied of the moderns are little better than Goths and 'andals.
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The glowing and ■' Pharsalva, lib. 8. ON READING NEW BOOKS 9 impetuous lines which slip niurmured, as she passed on, with spontaneous and rising enthusiasm^ were eng-raven on her heart, familiar to her as her daily thoughts ; her mind must have heen full of them to overflowing, and at the same time enriched with other stores and sources of knowledge equally elegant and impressive ; and we persist, notwithstandinj^ 'this and a thousand similar circumstances, in indulging our surprise how people ...could exist, and see, and feel, in those days, without ha'ing access to our opportunities and acquirements, and how Shakspeare wrote long after, in a harbarom ape! 'Ilie mystery in this case is of our own making. ^'e are struck with astonishment at finding a fine moral sentiment or a noble image nervously expressed in an author of the age of Queen Elizabeth ; not con- sidering that, independently of nature and feeling, which are the same in all periods, the writers of that day, who were generally men of education and learning, had such models before them as the one that has heen just referred to — were thoroughly acquainted with those masters of classic thought and language, com- pared with whom, in all that relates to the artificial graces of composition, the most studied of the moderns are little better than Goths and 'andals.
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