Lectures on English Literatures from Chaucer to TennysonJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1866 - 411 oldal |
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35. oldal
... genius , as if they could be approached indolently , thoughtlessly , and without preparatory discipline . When the term was most in use , it was meant for that which is essential literature , and yet how meanly inadequate and injurious ...
... genius , as if they could be approached indolently , thoughtlessly , and without preparatory discipline . When the term was most in use , it was meant for that which is essential literature , and yet how meanly inadequate and injurious ...
50. oldal
... genius of the poet's sister , adds the comment , " Were I to say that a poet finds his best advisers among his female friends , it would be speaking from my own experience , and the greatest poet of the age would confirm it by his . But ...
... genius of the poet's sister , adds the comment , " Were I to say that a poet finds his best advisers among his female friends , it would be speaking from my own experience , and the greatest poet of the age would confirm it by his . But ...
51. oldal
... genius as a critic rose to its majestic height , not only by its inborn manly strength , but because , with woman - like faith , it first bowed beneath the law of obedience and love . It is a beautiful example of the companionship of ...
... genius as a critic rose to its majestic height , not only by its inborn manly strength , but because , with woman - like faith , it first bowed beneath the law of obedience and love . It is a beautiful example of the companionship of ...
74. oldal
... genius imagination is not an active element there is no great poet into whose charac- ter the philosophic element does not largely enter . This should teach us a lesson in our studies of English lite- rature . : For the combination of ...
... genius imagination is not an active element there is no great poet into whose charac- ter the philosophic element does not largely enter . This should teach us a lesson in our studies of English lite- rature . : For the combination of ...
79. oldal
... genius which conceived the in- comprehensible character of Hamlet would alone be able to describe with intuitive truth the character of Scipio , or of Cromwell . " Now observe how two authors , of the finest powers in these two high ...
... genius which conceived the in- comprehensible character of Hamlet would alone be able to describe with intuitive truth the character of Scipio , or of Cromwell . " Now observe how two authors , of the finest powers in these two high ...
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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...