Lectures on English Literature: From Chaucer to TennysonParry & McMillan, 1855 - 411 sidor |
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... CENTURY . .... Page 121 Dawn of letters a false illustration - Intellectual gloom from Ed- ward III . to Henry VIII . - Chaucer to Spenser - Caxton and the art of printing - Civil wars - Wyatt and Surrey - The son- net naturalized in ...
... CENTURY . .... Page 121 Dawn of letters a false illustration - Intellectual gloom from Ed- ward III . to Henry VIII . - Chaucer to Spenser - Caxton and the art of printing - Civil wars - Wyatt and Surrey - The son- net naturalized in ...
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... CENTURIES . Milton's old age - Donne's Sermons - No great school of poetry without love of nature - Blank in this ... CENTURY . Literature of our own times - Influence of political and social re- lations - The historic relations of ...
... CENTURIES . Milton's old age - Donne's Sermons - No great school of poetry without love of nature - Blank in this ... CENTURY . Literature of our own times - Influence of political and social re- lations - The historic relations of ...
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... century . I have adverted to this subject , because the term de- tracts from that which is the prime characteristic of lite- rature - its universality - its appeal to man as man . this simple , elementary principle , we may unfold some ...
... century . I have adverted to this subject , because the term de- tracts from that which is the prime characteristic of lite- rature - its universality - its appeal to man as man . this simple , elementary principle , we may unfold some ...
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... century , and of Addison's or Steele's in the " Spectator " and the " Tatler , " in the early part of it , he will find his judg ment enlarged by seeing how those generations dealt with this same branch of letters . Travelling back a ...
... century , and of Addison's or Steele's in the " Spectator " and the " Tatler , " in the early part of it , he will find his judg ment enlarged by seeing how those generations dealt with this same branch of letters . Travelling back a ...
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... century . In nothing is familiarity with the literature of various periods more important than in the culture of poetic taste , our judgments and feelings for the poets . One meets perpetually with a confident partiality for some poet ...
... century . In nothing is familiarity with the literature of various periods more important than in the culture of poetic taste , our judgments and feelings for the poets . One meets perpetually with a confident partiality for some poet ...
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Sida 316 - Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols : and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Sida 36 - Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good : Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.
Sida 195 - The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
Sida 228 - Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man. What passion cannot Music raise and quell? When Jubal struck the chorded shell, His listening brethren stood around, And, wondering, on their faces fell To worship that celestial sound : Less than a god they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell, That spoke so sweetly, and so well.
Sida 325 - The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends on me; my spirit's bark is driven, Far from the shore, far from the trembling throng Whose sails were never to the tempest given; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven! I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar; Whilst burning through the inmost veil of Heaven, The soul of Adonais, like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are.
Sida 287 - Man knoweth not the price thereof ; Neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith, It is not in me: And the sea saith, It is not with me.
Sida 194 - But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began...
Sida 115 - There is not wind enough to twirl The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.
Sida 224 - Camoens soothed an exile's grief ; The sonnet glittered a gay myrtle leaf Amid the cypress with which Dante crowned His visionary brow: a glow-worm lamp, It cheered mild Spenser, called from Faery-land To struggle through dark ways; and when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet ; whence he blew Soul-animating strains — alas, too few...
Sida 111 - Scorn not the sonnet; Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart; the melody Of this small lute gave ease to Petrarch's wound; A thousand times this pipe did Tasso sound; With it Camoens soothed an exile's grief; The sonnet glittered a gay myrtle leaf Amid the cypress with which Dante crowned His visionary brow: a glow-worm lamp, It...