Lectures on English literature, from Chaucer to TennysonRarry & McMillan, 1855 - Počet stran: 411 |
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... admiration may prove a guide into some re- gion of literature where the mind shall dwell with satis- faction and delight for years to come . But there is a demand for something more systematic than such chance culture as I have alluded ...
... admiration may prove a guide into some re- gion of literature where the mind shall dwell with satis- faction and delight for years to come . But there is a demand for something more systematic than such chance culture as I have alluded ...
Strana 45
... admirable in imagination and in the true philosophy of criticism , and yet uttered in conversation in the easy , natural inter- course of society . † Such should be the culture of woman , and such the tone of society , that these fine ...
... admirable in imagination and in the true philosophy of criticism , and yet uttered in conversation in the easy , natural inter- course of society . † Such should be the culture of woman , and such the tone of society , that these fine ...
Strana 59
... admiration of these essays ? How can he be assured that they are going to endure in our litera- ture , and that their attractions are rightful attractions ? I myself believe that they will prove perishable , because the pungency of a ...
... admiration of these essays ? How can he be assured that they are going to endure in our litera- ture , and that their attractions are rightful attractions ? I myself believe that they will prove perishable , because the pungency of a ...
Strana 61
... admiration has grown by culture ample enough to know and to feel the power of the poetry of the past , is qualified to speak in judgment of the poetry of the pre- sent . That this or that poem pleases him , who knows the present only ...
... admiration has grown by culture ample enough to know and to feel the power of the poetry of the past , is qualified to speak in judgment of the poetry of the pre- sent . That this or that poem pleases him , who knows the present only ...
Strana 62
... admirable specimen of the essay - writing of our day . " There is , " it is remarked , " a very refined use which reading is put to ; namely , to counteract the particular evils and tempta- tions of our callings , the original ...
... admirable specimen of the essay - writing of our day . " There is , " it is remarked , " a very refined use which reading is put to ; namely , to counteract the particular evils and tempta- tions of our callings , the original ...
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Strana 191 - 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 46 - For woman is not undevelopt man, But diverse : could we make her as the man, Sweet Love were slain : his dearest bond is this, Not like to like, but like in difference. Yet in the long years liker must they grow ; The man be more of woman, she of man ; He gain in sweetness and in moral height, Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world ; She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care, Nor lose the childlike in the larger mind ; Till at the last she set herself to man, Like perfect music unto...
Strana 163 - 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.
Strana 227 - 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.
Strana 217 - Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
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 224 - 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 239 - Toll for the brave! The brave that are no more! All sunk beneath the wave, Fast by their native shore ! Eight hundred of the brave, Whose courage well was tried, Had made the vessel heel, And laid her on her side. A land-breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset; Down went the Royal George, With all her crew complete.
Strana 177 - I have of late— but wherefore I know not— lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Strana 287 - MANY a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of misery, Or the mariner, worn and wan, Never thus could voyage on Day and night, and night and day, Drifting on his dreary way, With the solid darkness black Closing round his vessel's track ; Whilst above the sunless sky, Big with clouds, hangs heavily...