Lectures on English Literatures from Chaucer to TennysonJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1866 - 411 oldal |
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26. oldal
... admiration may prove a guide into some re- gion of literature where the mind shall dwell with satis- faction and delight for years to come . But there is a demand for something more systematic than such chance culture as I have alluded ...
... admiration may prove a guide into some re- gion of literature where the mind shall dwell with satis- faction and delight for years to come . But there is a demand for something more systematic than such chance culture as I have alluded ...
45. oldal
... admirable in imagination and in the true philosophy of criticism , and yet uttered in conversation in the easy , natural inter- course of society . † Such should be the culture of woman , and such the tone of society , that these fine ...
... admirable in imagination and in the true philosophy of criticism , and yet uttered in conversation in the easy , natural inter- course of society . † Such should be the culture of woman , and such the tone of society , that these fine ...
59. oldal
... admiration of these essays ? How can he be assured that they are going to endure in our litera- ture , and that their attractions are rightful attractions ? I myself believe that they will prove perishable , because the pungency of a ...
... admiration of these essays ? How can he be assured that they are going to endure in our litera- ture , and that their attractions are rightful attractions ? I myself believe that they will prove perishable , because the pungency of a ...
61. oldal
... admiration has grown by culture ample enough to know and to feel the power of the poetry of the past , is qualified to speak in judgment of the poetry of the pre- sent . That this or that poem pleases him , who knows the present only ...
... admiration has grown by culture ample enough to know and to feel the power of the poetry of the past , is qualified to speak in judgment of the poetry of the pre- sent . That this or that poem pleases him , who knows the present only ...
62. oldal
... admirable specimen of the essay - writing of our day . “ There is , ” it is remarked , " a very refined use which reading is put to ; namely , to counteract the particular evils and tempta- tions of our callings , the original ...
... admirable specimen of the essay - writing of our day . “ There is , ” it is remarked , " a very refined use which reading is put to ; namely , to counteract the particular evils and tempta- tions of our callings , the original ...
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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...