Lectures on English Literatures from Chaucer to TennysonJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1866 - 411 páginas |
No interior do livro
Resultados 1-5 de 100
Página 5
... reading to be avoided - Cath of taste - Charles Lamb's idea of books - Ruskin - Ha reading comprehensive - Ancient Literature- Foreign guages - Different eras of letters - English essay - wr Macaulay - Southey - Scott and Washington ...
... reading to be avoided - Cath of taste - Charles Lamb's idea of books - Ruskin - Ha reading comprehensive - Ancient Literature- Foreign guages - Different eras of letters - English essay - wr Macaulay - Southey - Scott and Washington ...
Página 6
... reading - Books not insulated things -- Authors who guide - Southey's Doctor - Elia -Coleridge - Divisions of Prose and Poetry - Henry Taylor's Notes from Books - Poetry not a mere luxury of the mind- Arnold's habits of study and taste ...
... reading - Books not insulated things -- Authors who guide - Southey's Doctor - Elia -Coleridge - Divisions of Prose and Poetry - Henry Taylor's Notes from Books - Poetry not a mere luxury of the mind- Arnold's habits of study and taste ...
Página 7
... READING . Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity - Progress of English literature → Sir Walter Raleigh's History of the World - Bacon's Essays ...... Milton - Comus - Hymn on the Nativity - Suggestions as to Sunday reading Sacred books - Forms ...
... READING . Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity - Progress of English literature → Sir Walter Raleigh's History of the World - Bacon's Essays ...... Milton - Comus - Hymn on the Nativity - Suggestions as to Sunday reading Sacred books - Forms ...
Página 8
Henry Reed. Sunday reading Sacred books - Forms of Christian faith— Evidences of Religion - Butler's Analogy - Charles Lamb's Re- marks on Stackhouse - History of the Bible - Jeremy Taylor- Holy Living and Dying - Life of Christ - Pulpit ...
Henry Reed. Sunday reading Sacred books - Forms of Christian faith— Evidences of Religion - Butler's Analogy - Charles Lamb's Re- marks on Stackhouse - History of the Bible - Jeremy Taylor- Holy Living and Dying - Life of Christ - Pulpit ...
Página 15
... reading world of his own countrymen . Immediately on my brother's death in the autumn of last year , or as soon ( and with me it was very soon ) as all hope of possible rescue had faded away , my attention was turned to his manuscript ...
... reading world of his own countrymen . Immediately on my brother's death in the autumn of last year , or as soon ( and with me it was very soon ) as all hope of possible rescue had faded away , my attention was turned to his manuscript ...
Outras edições - Ver tudo
Lectures on English Literatures: From Chaucer to Tennyson Henry Reed Pré-visualização indisponível - 2015 |
Lectures on English Literatures from Chaucer to Tennyson William Bradford Reed,Henry Reed, PhD Pré-visualização indisponível - 2016 |
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
Passagens conhecidas
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...