Lectures on English Literatures from Chaucer to TennysonJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1866 - 411 páginas |
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... activity of his thoughts is quickened - how his judgment of books is often the joint product of his own reflections , and the contact of the wisdom and experience of others . To him who wanders at will through the vast spaces of ...
... activity of his thoughts is quickened - how his judgment of books is often the joint product of his own reflections , and the contact of the wisdom and experience of others . To him who wanders at will through the vast spaces of ...
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... activity , the man's to a wiser passiveness ; each true to its nature , they may consort in such just companionship that strength of mind shall pass from each to each ; and thus chastened and invigorated , the common humanity of the ...
... activity , the man's to a wiser passiveness ; each true to its nature , they may consort in such just companionship that strength of mind shall pass from each to each ; and thus chastened and invigorated , the common humanity of the ...
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... activity , insanity prevails to an extent double that in sections of the country less favourably situated . It would seem that the activity of the intellect had been too much tended , and its health too little . It is a com- mon peril ...
... activity , insanity prevails to an extent double that in sections of the country less favourably situated . It would seem that the activity of the intellect had been too much tended , and its health too little . It is a com- mon peril ...
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... cultivating , chastening it . It matters little from what point , or with what book a young reader begins his career , provided he brings along that thoughtful spirit of inquiry in which activity and docility 68 LECTURE SECOND .
... cultivating , chastening it . It matters little from what point , or with what book a young reader begins his career , provided he brings along that thoughtful spirit of inquiry in which activity and docility 68 LECTURE SECOND .
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Henry Reed. that thoughtful spirit of inquiry in which activity and docility are justly balanced . No good book is an insulated thing ; you can always , if you will but look for them , dis- cover leadings on to something else other books ...
Henry Reed. that thoughtful spirit of inquiry in which activity and docility are justly balanced . No good book is an insulated thing ; you can always , if you will but look for them , dis- cover leadings on to something else other books ...
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admiration ancient beauty Byron century character Charles Lamb Chaucer Christian church Cowper dark death deep discipline divine duty earnest earth Edom England English language English literature English poetry English prose expression eyes Faery Queen Francis Collins French Revolution genial genius gentle give glory guage habit happy hath heart heaven honour Horace Walpole human imagination influences intellectual Jeremy Taylor king language lecture letters litera literary living look Lord Lord Byron man's memory Milton mind modern moral nations nature never pass passage passion philosophy poem poet poet's poetic racter reading remarkable rude sacred Saxon Scott sense Shakspeare song Sonnet soul sound speak speech Spenser spirit stanza sympathy Tenterden thing thou thought and feeling tion true truth ture uncon utterance verse Waverley novels wisdom wise wit and humour womanly words Wordsworth writings
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Página 233 - 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.
Página 161 - 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.
Página 173 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Página 260 - 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.
Página 193 - It was said of Socrates, that he brought Philosophy down from Heaven to inhabit among Men ; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-tables, and in Coffee-houses.
Página 192 - 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.
Página 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.
Página 153 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Página 158 - Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i...
Página 188 - 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...