Lectures on English Literatures from Chaucer to TennysonJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1866 - 411 oldal |
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xvii. oldal
... England , as illustrated by Shakspeare's Historical Dramas . If , then , ( for I am dealing very candidly with the public , ) sufficient interest be felt in the intellectual and moral developments of these volumes to justify such a ...
... England , as illustrated by Shakspeare's Historical Dramas . If , then , ( for I am dealing very candidly with the public , ) sufficient interest be felt in the intellectual and moral developments of these volumes to justify such a ...
xx. oldal
... England , his friends , the family of Dr. Arnold , whom he had only known by correspondence , came on board the ship to receive him ; and his earliest and latest hours of European sojourn were passed under the roof of the great Poet ...
... England , his friends , the family of Dr. Arnold , whom he had only known by correspondence , came on board the ship to receive him ; and his earliest and latest hours of European sojourn were passed under the roof of the great Poet ...
xxi. oldal
... England in her summer garb of verdure , The last words he ever wrote were in a letter of the 20th September to his venerable friend , Mrs. Wordsworth , thanking her and his English friends generally for all she and they had done for him ...
... England in her summer garb of verdure , The last words he ever wrote were in a letter of the 20th September to his venerable friend , Mrs. Wordsworth , thanking her and his English friends generally for all she and they had done for him ...
52. oldal
... England in 1854 , the welcome he received from them was most cordial and affectionate . He was greeted as an old friend and taken home to their very hearts . Since his death , no more earnest and affectionate tributes to his memory , no ...
... England in 1854 , the welcome he received from them was most cordial and affectionate . He was greeted as an old friend and taken home to their very hearts . Since his death , no more earnest and affectionate tributes to his memory , no ...
65. oldal
... England being a pioneer in providing State Hospitals , the number of insane is better known than in those states which have just commenced the erection of institutions of that character . " W. B. R. " That sense which held me back in ...
... England being a pioneer in providing State Hospitals , the number of insane is better known than in those states which have just commenced the erection of institutions of that character . " W. B. R. " That sense which held me back in ...
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Lectures on English Literatures from Chaucer to Tennyson William Bradford Reed,Henry Reed, PhD Nincs elérhető előnézet - 2016 |
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233. oldal - 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.
161. oldal - 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.
173. oldal - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
260. oldal - 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.
193. oldal - It was said of Socrates, that he brought Philosophy down from Heaven to inhabit among Men ; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-tables, and in Coffee-houses.
192. oldal - 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.
115. oldal - 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.
153. oldal - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
158. oldal - Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i...
188. oldal - 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...