Periods of European Literature, Volume 10C. Scribner's sons, 1907 |
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... works , and we still see it is in the language of Ossian that Werther bids farewell to life and nerves himself for the quest of death . Pass Continent . on two generations later , and we shall find echoes BRITAIN . 9.
... works , and we still see it is in the language of Ossian that Werther bids farewell to life and nerves himself for the quest of death . Pass Continent . on two generations later , and we shall find echoes BRITAIN . 9.
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... language of Cowper , with rare exceptions , is singularly free -freer even than that of Goldsmith- from the artificialities and inversions which marked the school of Pope , the " poetic diction " from which even Collins had not been ...
... language of Cowper , with rare exceptions , is singularly free -freer even than that of Goldsmith- from the artificialities and inversions which marked the school of Pope , the " poetic diction " from which even Collins had not been ...
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... language , and place Cowper in the same rank with the other great hymn - writers of the century - with Isaac Watts , with Toplady , with Charles Wesley . This side of Cowper's genius is memorable in itself . Influence of It is still ...
... language , and place Cowper in the same rank with the other great hymn - writers of the century - with Isaac Watts , with Toplady , with Charles Wesley . This side of Cowper's genius is memorable in itself . Influence of It is still ...
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... language is as pure ; the verse , more difficult as it is to manage , is as harmonious ; the religious faith and the love of external nature are expressed with still greater eloquence . The style , no doubt , is deliberately staid ; but ...
... language is as pure ; the verse , more difficult as it is to manage , is as harmonious ; the religious faith and the love of external nature are expressed with still greater eloquence . The style , no doubt , is deliberately staid ; but ...
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... language to reproduce to the imagination the effect left by a given locality , a particular type of scenery , upon the eye . Other poets had individualised from nature as a whole . They had taken a particular season , a particular hour ...
... language to reproduce to the imagination the effect left by a given locality , a particular type of scenery , upon the eye . Other poets had individualised from nature as a whole . They had taken a particular season , a particular hour ...
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Página 32 - The wan moon is setting behind the white wave, And time is setting with me, Oh...
Página 59 - ... be so, I would willingly take all reasonable pains to correct. But it is dangerous to make these alterations on the simple authority of a few individuals, or even of certain classes of men; for where the understanding of an author is not convinced...
Página 35 - I walk out, sit down now and then, look out for objects in nature around me that are in unison or harmony with the cogitations of my fancy, and workings of my bosom; humming every now and then the air, with the verses I have framed. When I feel my muse beginning to jade...
Página 156 - All that he had ever heard - all that he had ever read - when compared with it dwindled into nothing, and vanished like vapour before the sun.
Página 131 - ... frequently be thwarted, their will controlled, and their passions brought into subjection. This can only be done by a power out of...
Página 228 - I can give not what men call love, But wilt thou accept not The worship the heart lifts above And the Heavens reject not, The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow...
Página 74 - Did both find, helpers to their hearts' desire, And stuff at hand, plastic as they could wish, — Were called upon to exercise their skill, Not in "Utopia, — subterranean fields, — Or some secreted island, Heaven knows where ! But in the very world, which is the world Of all of us, — the place where, in the end, We find our happiness, or not at all...
Página 131 - Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom. Among these wants is to be reckoned the want, out of civil society, of a sufficient restraint upon their passions.
Página 415 - the air of this country did not agree with " you, and we are not yet reduced to seek " for models amongst the people you admire. " Your last work is not French ; it is I " who have put a stop to the publication of