Lectures on English Literature: From Chaucer to TennysonParry & McMillan, 1855 - 411 Seiten |
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... less to his feelings ; but , in all this , he is in more danger of bringing his faculties separately into action : he is more apt to be misled by our imperfect systems of metaphysics , which give us none but the most meagre theories of ...
... less to his feelings ; but , in all this , he is in more danger of bringing his faculties separately into action : he is more apt to be misled by our imperfect systems of metaphysics , which give us none but the most meagre theories of ...
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... less of wilfulness , and to a truer power of sympathy ; and the woman's spirit shall lose none of its earnest , confiding apprehensiveness in gaining more of reasoning and reflection ; and so , by reciprocal influences , that vicious ...
... less of wilfulness , and to a truer power of sympathy ; and the woman's spirit shall lose none of its earnest , confiding apprehensiveness in gaining more of reasoning and reflection ; and so , by reciprocal influences , that vicious ...
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... less docile intellects , into the deep places of the souls of mighty poets : his genius as a critic rose to its majestic height , not only by its inborn manly strength , but because , with woman - like faith , it first bowed beneath the ...
... less docile intellects , into the deep places of the souls of mighty poets : his genius as a critic rose to its majestic height , not only by its inborn manly strength , but because , with woman - like faith , it first bowed beneath the ...
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... less effective weapon than a foreign literature ; and the more remote that is , the more effective it is for osten- tation . But if there be a better purpose than feeding vanity , then , for all the best and most salutary influences ...
... less effective weapon than a foreign literature ; and the more remote that is , the more effective it is for osten- tation . But if there be a better purpose than feeding vanity , then , for all the best and most salutary influences ...
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... such confidence may be entirely unequal to that which is the simplest test - the capacity to comprehend and enjoy the poetry of other ages . The merits of the living poets must be more or less in dispute ; and 60 LECTURE SECOND .
... such confidence may be entirely unequal to that which is the simplest test - the capacity to comprehend and enjoy the poetry of other ages . The merits of the living poets must be more or less in dispute ; and 60 LECTURE SECOND .
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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
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 194 - But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began...
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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...