Lectures on English Literatures from Chaucer to TennysonJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1866 - 411 páginas |
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... called " education , " hints and suggestions , criticism , literary sympathies , and even literary antagonism , become the more expanded and freer discipline , which lasts through life . We cannot tell how much of good we may thus do to ...
... called " education , " hints and suggestions , criticism , literary sympathies , and even literary antagonism , become the more expanded and freer discipline , which lasts through life . We cannot tell how much of good we may thus do to ...
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... called , . . . for the very same reason that it is so much more durable than the literature of know- ledge is ... more intense and electrically searching in its impressions . The directions in which the tragedy of this planet has ...
... called , . . . for the very same reason that it is so much more durable than the literature of know- ledge is ... more intense and electrically searching in its impressions . The directions in which the tragedy of this planet has ...
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... called guiding authors , whose genial love of letters was not only a light to their own lives , but still shines , a lamp to show the path to others . You feel that what they loved may fitly be loved by you ; that what stirred their ...
... called guiding authors , whose genial love of letters was not only a light to their own lives , but still shines , a lamp to show the path to others . You feel that what they loved may fitly be loved by you ; that what stirred their ...
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... called a religious criticism , for it holds out its warnings when multitudes are mad ; and there is a criticism founded upon patient research and studious deliberation , which , even if it be given somewhat rudely and harshly , cannot ...
... called a religious criticism , for it holds out its warnings when multitudes are mad ; and there is a criticism founded upon patient research and studious deliberation , which , even if it be given somewhat rudely and harshly , cannot ...
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... called the land of prose , Where many living things were seen In movement or repose . I looked upon a stately hill , That well was named the mount of song , Where golden shadows dwelt at will , The woods and streams among . But most ...
... called the land of prose , Where many living things were seen In movement or repose . I looked upon a stately hill , That well was named the mount of song , Where golden shadows dwelt at will , The woods and streams among . But most ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
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...