Periods of European Literature, Volume 10C. Scribner's sons, 1907 |
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... thought and Characteristics literature of western Europe - a change from the spirit of criticism to that of creation ; from wit to humour and pathos ; from satire and didactic verse to the poetry of passion and impassioned reflection ...
... thought and Characteristics literature of western Europe - a change from the spirit of criticism to that of creation ; from wit to humour and pathos ; from satire and didactic verse to the poetry of passion and impassioned reflection ...
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... thought . It is this , with all that directly flows from it , which comes first also in order of time . The vaguer and less specialised forms of romanticism precede those which are more definite and specific . Gray and Burke come before ...
... thought . It is this , with all that directly flows from it , which comes first also in order of time . The vaguer and less specialised forms of romanticism precede those which are more definite and specific . Gray and Burke come before ...
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... thought . Firstly , then , a sense of mystery and even of the supernatural is to be found in writers of the preceding generation . It must be allowed , for instance , beyond question to Collins . His earlier odes offer number- less ...
... thought . Firstly , then , a sense of mystery and even of the supernatural is to be found in writers of the preceding generation . It must be allowed , for instance , beyond question to Collins . His earlier odes offer number- less ...
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... thought and feeling which had been fast chained j beneath the hide - bound formalism of the preceding era , and for want of which the land was perishing of inanition . The poetic revival began to make itself felt within a few years ...
... thought and feeling which had been fast chained j beneath the hide - bound formalism of the preceding era , and for want of which the land was perishing of inanition . The poetic revival began to make itself felt within a few years ...
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... thought , the human passion , the mystical divination , for which he is striving to find utterance . The Sunflower is but one instance , though perhaps the most incomparable of them all , of his ceaseless endeavour " To see a world in a ...
... thought , the human passion , the mystical divination , for which he is striving to find utterance . The Sunflower is but one instance , though perhaps the most incomparable of them all , of his ceaseless endeavour " To see a world in a ...
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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