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... never suffering the love of poetry to be extinguished in his heart , or to be
crowded out of it , but turning it perpetually to wise uses , bringing the poetic
truths of Shakspeare and of Wordsworth to the help of the cause of truth ; his
enthusiasm ...
... never suffering the love of poetry to be extinguished in his heart , or to be
crowded out of it , but turning it perpetually to wise uses , bringing the poetic
truths of Shakspeare and of Wordsworth to the help of the cause of truth ; his
enthusiasm ...
Sida 74
It was no false boast when it was said that “ Our great poets have been our best
political philosophers ; ' * nor would it be , to ... The reader , then , who , on the
one hand , gives himself wholly to visionary poetic dreamings is false to his
Saxon ...
It was no false boast when it was said that “ Our great poets have been our best
political philosophers ; ' * nor would it be , to ... The reader , then , who , on the
one hand , gives himself wholly to visionary poetic dreamings is false to his
Saxon ...
Sida 75
But , as it is the poetic culture which is most frequently discarded , let me follow
out this high authority in that direction . You will recall bow , when it was the
divine purpose to imprint upon the memory of the chosen race what should
endure ...
But , as it is the poetic culture which is most frequently discarded , let me follow
out this high authority in that direction . You will recall bow , when it was the
divine purpose to imprint upon the memory of the chosen race what should
endure ...
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This proof of the value of poetic culture is fortified when you reflect how that which
may be reverenced as the very ideal of poetry — I mean that which flowed from
direct divine inspiration - has always proved its adaptation to the hearts of men ...
This proof of the value of poetic culture is fortified when you reflect how that which
may be reverenced as the very ideal of poetry — I mean that which flowed from
direct divine inspiration - has always proved its adaptation to the hearts of men ...
Sida 81
This is the poetic process of our spiritual growth , and when the poet teaches or
chastens , he , at the same time , elevates and brings forth into life and light all of
great and good that lies hidden in our nature . “ Wouldst thou , ” says that earnest
...
This is the poetic process of our spiritual growth , and when the poet teaches or
chastens , he , at the same time , elevates and brings forth into life and light all of
great and good that lies hidden in our nature . “ Wouldst thou , ” says that earnest
...
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Lectures on English Literature: From Chaucer to Tennyson Henry Reed Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1855 |
Lectures on English Literature: From Chaucer to Tennyson Henry Reed Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1855 |
LECTURES ON ENGLISH LITERATURE, FROM CHAURER TO TENNYSON HENRY REED Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1855 |
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| Titel | Lectures on English Literature, from Chaucer to Tennyson |
| Författare | Henry Reed |
| Redaktör | William Bradford Reed |
| Utgåva | 3 |
| Utgivare | Parry & McMillan, 1855 |
| Original från | Harvard University |
| Digitaliserad | 13 jan 2009 |
| Längd | 411 sidor |
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