Lectures on English Literatures from Chaucer to TennysonJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1866 - 411 oldal |
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Henry Reed. INTRODUCTORY NOTICE . My duty in editing this volume is a very simple one : -to state , with frankness and precision , the circumstances of its publication , and , if need be , to disarm criticism by the absence of any thing ...
Henry Reed. INTRODUCTORY NOTICE . My duty in editing this volume is a very simple one : -to state , with frankness and precision , the circumstances of its publication , and , if need be , to disarm criticism by the absence of any thing ...
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... simple justice to the living and the dead , to us who grieve and to him for whom we mourn . This friendship was faithful and affectionate to the end . Mr. Reed entered the Sophomore class at the University of Pennsylvania in September ...
... simple justice to the living and the dead , to us who grieve and to him for whom we mourn . This friendship was faithful and affectionate to the end . Mr. Reed entered the Sophomore class at the University of Pennsylvania in September ...
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... simple , child - like love of song , the songs of bird , of milk - maid , and of minstrel , that this little book on fishing has earned its life of two hundred years already , outliving many a more ambitious book , and Izaak Walton has ...
... simple , child - like love of song , the songs of bird , of milk - maid , and of minstrel , that this little book on fishing has earned its life of two hundred years already , outliving many a more ambitious book , and Izaak Walton has ...
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... simple as it is , it is practically lost sight of , in the propensity to identify all things in the shape of books with literature . Whatever is meant to minis- ser to our universal human nature , either in the nature of the subject or ...
... simple as it is , it is practically lost sight of , in the propensity to identify all things in the shape of books with literature . Whatever is meant to minis- ser to our universal human nature , either in the nature of the subject or ...
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... simple , elementary principle , we may unfold some of the manifold powers and uses of a literature : it would not thus address itself to all human beings , whose minds can be open to it , unless it had some great purpose - some worthier ...
... simple , elementary principle , we may unfold some of the manifold powers and uses of a literature : it would not thus address itself to all human beings , whose minds can be open to it , unless it had some great purpose - some worthier ...
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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...