Introduction to English literature, from Chaucer to TennysonJ.F. Shaw, 1857 - 360 Seiten |
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... the pulses of the human heart . It is this , and this alone this universality — which places a book in a Nation's literature . It matters not what the subject , or what the modes of treating - be there but 12 PRINCIPLES OF LITERATURE.
... the pulses of the human heart . It is this , and this alone this universality — which places a book in a Nation's literature . It matters not what the subject , or what the modes of treating - be there but 12 PRINCIPLES OF LITERATURE.
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... heart . The books that are not a literature have the professional , the technical , but not the human stamp : some ... hearts of men , if but for a season ; and it is more lastingly true of the higher literature - for instance , our ...
... heart . The books that are not a literature have the professional , the technical , but not the human stamp : some ... hearts of men , if but for a season ; and it is more lastingly true of the higher literature - for instance , our ...
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... heart may beat all the truer for it ; the mind's eye may see all the clearer for it . As you close a book , ask yourself what it has done for you ; and better , perhaps , than criticism or any other counsel , shall the silent communings ...
... heart may beat all the truer for it ; the mind's eye may see all the clearer for it . As you close a book , ask yourself what it has done for you ; and better , perhaps , than criticism or any other counsel , shall the silent communings ...
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... heart as friends , and friends for life it will give also that confidence , most valuable in the days of multitudinous publications , the confidence in determining what books , and they are very many , it is good to be immutably ...
... heart as friends , and friends for life it will give also that confidence , most valuable in the days of multitudinous publications , the confidence in determining what books , and they are very many , it is good to be immutably ...
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... Heart with heart and mind with mind , When the main fibres are entwined , Through Nature's skill , May even by contraries be joined More closely still . " - Wordsworth . There Such was the exquisite companionship of the sexes as they ...
... Heart with heart and mind with mind , When the main fibres are entwined , Through Nature's skill , May even by contraries be joined More closely still . " - Wordsworth . There Such was the exquisite companionship of the sexes as they ...
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Seite 98 - 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...
Seite 176 - 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 133 - It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry ; but that it is now, at length, discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment...
Seite 160 - 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 154 - I see before me the gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low ; And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him ; he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Seite 147 - They parted - ne'er to meet again! But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs, which had been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows between; But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been.
Seite 161 - O Lady! we receive but what we give And in our life alone does Nature live: Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud! And would we aught behold of higher worth, Than that inanimate cold world allowed To the poor loveless ever-anxious crowd, Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth And from the soul itself must there be sent A sweet and potent voice, of its own birth, Of all sweet sounds the life and element!
Seite 160 - When elements to elements conform, And dust is as it should be, shall I not Feel all. I see, less dazzling, but more warm? The bodiless thought? the spirit of each spot, Of which, even now, I share at times the immortal lot ? LXXV.
Seite 95 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet; and yet it is sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobwebs of that uncivil age, what would it work, trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar?
Seite 59 - Is the night chilly and dark ? The night is chilly, but not dark. The thin gray cloud is spread on high, It covers but not hides the sky. The moon is behind, and at the full ; And yet she looks both small and dull. The night is chill, the cloud is gray : Tis a month before the month of May, And the Spring comes slowly up this way.