 ... the voluminous leaf, as it turned over; and though the soul might slumber with an hieroglyphic veil of inscrutable mysteries drawn over it, yet it was in a slumber ill-exchanged for all the sharpened realities of sense, wit, fancy, or reason. My father's...  A Renegade Poet: And Other Essays - Page 23by Francis Thompson - 1910 - 344 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Hazlitt - 1889 - 586 pages
...realities of sense, wit, fancy, or reason. My father's life was comparatively a dream ; but it was a dream of infinity and eternity, of death, the resurrection, and a judgment to come ! No two individuals were ever more unlike than were the host and his guest. A poet was to my father... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1901 - 320 pages
...realities of sense, wit, fancy, or reason. My father's life was comparatively a dream ; but it was a dream of infinity and eternity, of death, the resurrection, and a judgment to come ! 10 No two individuals were ever more unlike than were the host and his guest. A poet was to my father... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1904 - 476 pages
...realities of sense, wit, fancy, or reason. My father's life was comparatively n dream ; but it was a dream of infinity and eternity, of death, the resurrection, and a judgment to come ! No two individuals were ever more unlike than were the host and his guest. A poet was to my father... | |
 | Roberto Bracco - 1908 - 156 pages
...gratitude. And though his life was comparatively a dream, nevertheless, it was, as Hazlitt has written, a dream of infinity and eternity, of death, the resurrection,...the world an inestimable good, if the world will but recognize it, for he has succeeded in cloaking all things vividly with the Divine Presence. Truly a... | |
 | Francis Thompson - 1910 - 372 pages
...this gleeful utterance of a gleeful child ! Truly it seems as if Francis Thompson must have hiddeq behind Heaven's big front door when Crashaw and Herrick...And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt amongst us." EDWAED J. O'BEIEN. March 4, 1910. A RENEGADE POET ON THE POET J r I lIS an ill bird that fouls its... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1913 - 646 pages
...realities of sense, wit, fancy, or reason. My father's life was comparatively a dream ; but it was a dream of infinity and eternity, of death, the resurrection, and a judgment to come! No two individuals were ever more unlike than were the host and his guest. A poet was to my father... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - 1920 - 264 pages
...sharpened realities of sense, wit, fancy, or reason. My father's life was comparatively a dream; but it was a dream of infinity and eternity, of death, the resurrection, and a judgment to come ! Winterslow; My First Acquaintance with Poets. THE SNOB COULD I have had my will, I should have been... | |
 | Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 416 pages
...sharpened realities of sense, wit, fancy, or reason. My father's life was comparatively a dream; but it was a dream of infinity and eternity, of death, the resurrection, and a judgment to come ! 42 THE PERSONAL ESSAY No two individuals were ever more unlike than were the host and his guest.... | |
 | Percival Presland Howe - 1922 - 510 pages
...sharpened realities of sense, wit, fancy or reason. My father's life was comparatively a dream ; but it was a dream of infinity and eternity, of death, the resurrection, and a judgment to come I In this library the boy brooded and browsed, turning over the pages, occasionally tackling a volume.... | |
 | Edmund David Jones - 1924 - 636 pages
...realities of sense, wit, fancy, or reason. My father's life was comparatively a dream ; but it was a dream of infinity and eternity, of death, the resurrection, and a judgement to come ! No two individuals were ever more unlike than were the host and his guest. A poet... | |
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