Lectures on English Literature: From Chaucer to TennysonParry & McMillan, 1855 - 411 sidor |
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... once filled as Assistant Professor , being vacant , Mr. Reed became a candidate for the chair , but was not elected . Although no personal disparagement was intended , so earnest and so reasonable was his ambition for what he considered ...
... once filled as Assistant Professor , being vacant , Mr. Reed became a candidate for the chair , but was not elected . Although no personal disparagement was intended , so earnest and so reasonable was his ambition for what he considered ...
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... once we see the necessity of making the discrimination . Books that are technical , that are professional , that are sectarian , are not litera- ture in the proper sense of the term . The great charac- teristic of literature , its ...
... once we see the necessity of making the discrimination . Books that are technical , that are professional , that are sectarian , are not litera- ture in the proper sense of the term . The great charac- teristic of literature , its ...
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... of idolatry , is at once false and pernicious ; or there may be that wise and well - adjusted sense of affectionate reverence of womanhood , which is thoughtful of the vast variety of human companionship - matronly , LECTURE FIRST .
... of idolatry , is at once false and pernicious ; or there may be that wise and well - adjusted sense of affectionate reverence of womanhood , which is thoughtful of the vast variety of human companionship - matronly , LECTURE FIRST .
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... once , to trace the influences of the continental literature of Europe upon English literature . Let me here remark , that while the study of foreign languages and literature , along with many other advantages , may help us the better ...
... once , to trace the influences of the continental literature of Europe upon English literature . Let me here remark , that while the study of foreign languages and literature , along with many other advantages , may help us the better ...
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... once a symptom and a cause of weakness , and not of health . To the mind that cultivates a thoughtful and well - regulated variety in its reading , this reward will come , that , where before , things seemed separate and insulated ...
... once a symptom and a cause of weakness , and not of health . To the mind that cultivates a thoughtful and well - regulated variety in its reading , this reward will come , that , where before , things seemed separate and insulated ...
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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...