Lectures on English Literatures from Chaucer to TennysonJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1866 - 411 oldal |
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... LANGUAGE . .. Page 54 Medium of ideas often forgotten - Witchery of English words— Analysis of good style difficult - The power of words - Our duty to the English language - Lord Bacon's idea of Latin - Milton- Hume's expostulation with ...
... LANGUAGE . .. Page 54 Medium of ideas often forgotten - Witchery of English words— Analysis of good style difficult - The power of words - Our duty to the English language - Lord Bacon's idea of Latin - Milton- Hume's expostulation with ...
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... Language - English minstrelsy - Percy's Reliques -Sir Walter Scott - Wilson - Christian hymns and chaunts- Conversion of King Edwin - Martial ballads - Lockhart- Spanish ballads - Ticknor's great work - Edom of Gordon- Dramatic power of ...
... Language - English minstrelsy - Percy's Reliques -Sir Walter Scott - Wilson - Christian hymns and chaunts- Conversion of King Edwin - Martial ballads - Lockhart- Spanish ballads - Ticknor's great work - Edom of Gordon- Dramatic power of ...
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... language as will make it part of his thoughts and feelings , has a claim for guidance and counsel upon those whose duty it is to fit themselves to bestow it . It is a claim that well may win a quick and kindly response , for the sense ...
... language as will make it part of his thoughts and feelings , has a claim for guidance and counsel upon those whose duty it is to fit themselves to bestow it . It is a claim that well may win a quick and kindly response , for the sense ...
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... language . What ( it may be asked ) is Literature ? This is a question not enough thought of ; the answer to it is important , but by no means , I think , difficult , when once we see the necessity of making the discrimination . Books ...
... language . What ( it may be asked ) is Literature ? This is a question not enough thought of ; the answer to it is important , but by no means , I think , difficult , when once we see the necessity of making the discrimination . Books ...
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... language , on the birth - the life - the undying destiny of the soul of man . I have dwelt upon this prime quality of literature , its universality , because , simple as it is , it is practically lost sight of , in the propensity to ...
... language , on the birth - the life - the undying destiny of the soul of man . I have dwelt upon this prime quality of literature , its universality , because , simple as it is , it is practically lost sight of , in the propensity to ...
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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...