Lectures on English Literatures from Chaucer to TennysonJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1866 - 411 oldal |
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1 - 5 találat összesen 53 találatból.
8. oldal
... respect between Paradise Lost and Thomson's Seasons - Court of Charles the Second- Samson Agonistes -- Milton's Sonnets - Clarendon's History of the Rebellion - Pilgrim's Progress - Dryden's Odes - Absalom and Achitophel - Rhyming ...
... respect between Paradise Lost and Thomson's Seasons - Court of Charles the Second- Samson Agonistes -- Milton's Sonnets - Clarendon's History of the Rebellion - Pilgrim's Progress - Dryden's Odes - Absalom and Achitophel - Rhyming ...
42. oldal
... respect- ing the equality of the sexes , or relative superiority or inferiority , I have only to say , that to me they are simply odious , -wrong , I believe , -in faith , in philosophy , and in feeling . Why should our minds be ...
... respect- ing the equality of the sexes , or relative superiority or inferiority , I have only to say , that to me they are simply odious , -wrong , I believe , -in faith , in philosophy , and in feeling . Why should our minds be ...
47. oldal
... respecting the com- panionship of the sexes can have no better illustration than in the study of literature . All that is essential lite- rature belongs alike to mind of woman and of man ; it demands the same kind of culture from each ...
... respecting the com- panionship of the sexes can have no better illustration than in the study of literature . All that is essential lite- rature belongs alike to mind of woman and of man ; it demands the same kind of culture from each ...
54. oldal
... respecting the essential properties and uses of literature . I endeavoured to show that nothing but what is addressed to man as man is literature , and that that is more appropriately and eminently literature which gives power rather ...
... respecting the essential properties and uses of literature . I endeavoured to show that nothing but what is addressed to man as man is literature , and that that is more appropriately and eminently literature which gives power rather ...
55. oldal
... respect , for favourite lines of reading may come to be too exclusive . A favourite author may have too large an occupation . Women should remember that in all that is essentially literature , they have a right in common with men ...
... respect , for favourite lines of reading may come to be too exclusive . A favourite author may have too large an occupation . Women should remember that in all that is essentially literature , they have a right in common with men ...
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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...