Lectures on English Literature: From Chaucer to TennysonParry & McMillan, 1855 - Počet stran: 411 |
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Strana 33
... darker than aught in the region of romance . In our own times , it was for all his race that Byron gave utter- ance to his passionate poetry : it was for all Christian readers that Southey , in his " Eastern Epics , " inter- wove , with ...
... darker than aught in the region of romance . In our own times , it was for all his race that Byron gave utter- ance to his passionate poetry : it was for all Christian readers that Southey , in his " Eastern Epics , " inter- wove , with ...
Strana 38
... darkness ; by weapons even from this book he superannuates and de- stroys it , so that soon the name of Newton remains as a mere nominis umbra , but his book , as a living power , has transmigrated into other forms . Now , on the ...
... darkness ; by weapons even from this book he superannuates and de- stroys it , so that soon the name of Newton remains as a mere nominis umbra , but his book , as a living power , has transmigrated into other forms . Now , on the ...
Strana 52
... darkness , to discern The spiritual splendours , how they shine and burn . All bright endowments of a noble mind They , who with joy behold them , soonest find ; And better none its stains of frailty know Than they who fain would see it ...
... darkness , to discern The spiritual splendours , how they shine and burn . All bright endowments of a noble mind They , who with joy behold them , soonest find ; And better none its stains of frailty know Than they who fain would see it ...
Strana 60
... darkness , or to the still safer guidance of the slow - moving stars . The principle which I have thus endeavoured to ex- emplify , is important in all the divisions of literature . It is needful to lift us out of the influences which ...
... darkness , or to the still safer guidance of the slow - moving stars . The principle which I have thus endeavoured to ex- emplify , is important in all the divisions of literature . It is needful to lift us out of the influences which ...
Strana 73
... dark , after having been steeped , as it were , in such an atmo- sphere of brilliance ! " * This was the constitution not of one man alone , but of the greatest minds of the race ; for if our Anglo - Saxon character could be analyzed ...
... dark , after having been steeped , as it were , in such an atmo- sphere of brilliance ! " * This was the constitution not of one man alone , but of the greatest minds of the race ; for if our Anglo - Saxon character could be analyzed ...
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admirable beauty Byron century character Charles Lamb Chaucer Christian Cowper criticism dark death deep discipline divine duty earnest earth England English language English literature English poetry expression faculties Faery Queen familiar French Revolution genial genius gentle give glory guage habit happy hath heart honour Horace Walpole human imagination influence intellectual Jeremy Taylor Lady language lecture letters light litera literary living look Lord Lord Byron Lord Chatham memory Milton mind moral nature never Paradise Lost pass passage passion philosophy poem poet poet's poetic racter reading remarkable sacred Saxon Scott sense Shakspeare song sorrow soul sound Southey Southey's speak speech Spenser spirit stanzas style sympathy Tenterden thing thou thought and feeling tion true truth uncon utterance verse wisdom wise wit and humour womanly words Wordsworth writings
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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...