Lectures on English Literature: From Chaucer to TennysonParry & McMillan, 1855 - Počet stran: 411 |
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Strana xxii
... Reed , we may well believe , would have resumed his American duties with new zeal and efficiency . Not that I for one moment imagine he had become in- fected with the folly of fancying that a system of Xxii INTRODUCTORY NOTICE .
... Reed , we may well believe , would have resumed his American duties with new zeal and efficiency . Not that I for one moment imagine he had become in- fected with the folly of fancying that a system of Xxii INTRODUCTORY NOTICE .
Strana 34
... believe it to be not only vague and inadequate , but also mischievous ; and it is well known what power of mischief there may be in a word . " Belles - lettres " -fine letters - polite litera- ture - what thought do these terms convey ...
... believe it to be not only vague and inadequate , but also mischievous ; and it is well known what power of mischief there may be in a word . " Belles - lettres " -fine letters - polite litera- ture - what thought do these terms convey ...
Strana 42
... believe , -in faith , in philosophy , and in feeling . Why should our minds be perplexed with modern speculations on this subject , when we have in- spired teaching , which , in a few words , if we will but look at them , will show us ...
... believe , -in faith , in philosophy , and in feeling . Why should our minds be perplexed with modern speculations on this subject , when we have in- spired teaching , which , in a few words , if we will but look at them , will show us ...
Strana 48
... believe , for women , who gain , however , the advantages of a readier sympathy and a more unquestioning faith . The man's mind reacts more on the book , sets himself more in judgment upon it , and trusts less to his feelings ; but , in ...
... believe , for women , who gain , however , the advantages of a readier sympathy and a more unquestioning faith . The man's mind reacts more on the book , sets himself more in judgment upon it , and trusts less to his feelings ; but , in ...
Strana 59
... believe that they will prove perishable , because the pungency of a period , and the dazzling effects of declamation are , to Mr. Macaulay , dearer at least than faith and charity . The admirer of his Essays may think otherwise , but ...
... believe that they will prove perishable , because the pungency of a period , and the dazzling effects of declamation are , to Mr. Macaulay , dearer at least than faith and charity . The admirer of his Essays may think otherwise , but ...
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Strana 316 - 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.
Strana 36 - Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good : Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.
Strana 195 - 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.
Strana 228 - 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.
Strana 325 - The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends on me; my spirit's bark is driven, Far from the shore, far from the trembling throng Whose sails were never to the tempest given; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven! I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar; Whilst burning through the inmost veil of Heaven, The soul of Adonais, like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are.
Strana 287 - 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.
Strana 194 - But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began...
Strana 115 - 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.
Strana 224 - 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...
Strana 111 - Scorn not the sonnet; Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart; the melody Of this small lute gave ease to Petrarch's wound; A thousand times this pipe did Tasso sound; With it 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...