Lectures on English Literature: From Chaucer to TennysonParry & McMillan, 1855 - 411 Seiten |
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... passion is dwelling on the silent and senseless paper , how much of wisdom is ready to make its entrance into the mind that is pre- pared to give it welcome . It is mournful to think that the multitudinous oracles should be dumb to us ...
... passion is dwelling on the silent and senseless paper , how much of wisdom is ready to make its entrance into the mind that is pre- pared to give it welcome . It is mournful to think that the multitudinous oracles should be dumb to us ...
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... - a moral , spiritual power which man shall do homage to . Ambition , pride , wilfulness , or any Wordsworth . The Grave of Burns . earthly passion will but distort her being ; she struggles PRINCIPLES OF LITERATURE . 43.
... - a moral , spiritual power which man shall do homage to . Ambition , pride , wilfulness , or any Wordsworth . The Grave of Burns . earthly passion will but distort her being ; she struggles PRINCIPLES OF LITERATURE . 43.
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From Chaucer to Tennyson Henry Reed William Bradford Reed. earthly passion will but distort her being ; she struggles all in vain against a divine appointment , and sinks into more woful servitude , and the primeval curse weighs a ...
From Chaucer to Tennyson Henry Reed William Bradford Reed. earthly passion will but distort her being ; she struggles all in vain against a divine appointment , and sinks into more woful servitude , and the primeval curse weighs a ...
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... Passion is blind , not love ; her wondrous might Informs with three - fold power man's inward sight ; To her deep glance the soul , at large displayed , Shows all its mingled mass of light and shade : Men call her blind when she but ...
... Passion is blind , not love ; her wondrous might Informs with three - fold power man's inward sight ; To her deep glance the soul , at large displayed , Shows all its mingled mass of light and shade : Men call her blind when she but ...
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... passion , and so it gives power to the mind , in making us the better know ourselves and our fellow - beings . But most inadequate are his conceptions of truth , who thinks it has no range beyond the facts and outward things which ...
... passion , and so it gives power to the mind , in making us the better know ourselves and our fellow - beings . But most inadequate are his conceptions of truth , who thinks it has no range beyond the facts and outward things which ...
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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...