Essays and PoemsCharles C. Little and James Brown, 1839 - 175 páginas |
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... less influence ? Because he could not , like Homer , carry into the past the spirit of his times . To the enlarged minds of Virgil's day , the interval between the siege of Troy and their own time did not seem wider than it did to those ...
... less influence ? Because he could not , like Homer , carry into the past the spirit of his times . To the enlarged minds of Virgil's day , the interval between the siege of Troy and their own time did not seem wider than it did to those ...
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... less favored by the circumstances under which he introduced them , than he was by those which enabled him to represent his heroes . It cast around his whole subject a sublimity which it could not otherwise have had , giving occasion to ...
... less favored by the circumstances under which he introduced them , than he was by those which enabled him to represent his heroes . It cast around his whole subject a sublimity which it could not otherwise have had , giving occasion to ...
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... less to every people in an early stage of civilization , before the nation comes of age , and acquires the consciousness along with the free use of its powers . This seems to be the reason why so many of the verbs em- ployed by the ...
... less to every people in an early stage of civilization , before the nation comes of age , and acquires the consciousness along with the free use of its powers . This seems to be the reason why so many of the verbs em- ployed by the ...
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... less visible , less tangible . The wonder and interest of the world is now transferred to the mind , whose thought is action , and whose word is power . Lord Kames therefore erred , when he said " that it was the familiarity of modern ...
... less visible , less tangible . The wonder and interest of the world is now transferred to the mind , whose thought is action , and whose word is power . Lord Kames therefore erred , when he said " that it was the familiarity of modern ...
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... less than in those which ex- hibit the later developments of the Christian heroic character . By removing the bounds of time , Christianity has , I think , rendered every finite subject unsuited for an epic poem . The Christian creed ...
... less than in those which ex- hibit the later developments of the Christian heroic character . By removing the bounds of time , Christianity has , I think , rendered every finite subject unsuited for an epic poem . The Christian creed ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
admiration Aristotle beauty become beneath bloom bosom breast breath bright child childlike Christ Christian consciousness creations dæmon dark death Divine doth earth ence endeavor to show epic interest epic poem epic poetry eternal exhibit existence Father feel felt flower forever free agency gaze genius gift give Hamlet hand Harfleur hast hear heart heaven heroes heroic character heroic spirit Homer hour human mind Iliad impulse influence JAMES BROWN light live look Lucan Macbeth Menelaus Milton motive motley fool natural action never o'er objects onward ourselves outward Paradise Lost perfect play poet poet's Polonius possessed praise present rejoice rendered rest robes seems selfishness sense Shakspeare Shakspeare's mind song soul speak stand strange stream strongly sweet tell thee thine things thou thought tion tism tongue tree uncon unconscious utter Virgil visible voice wind wonder words
Passagens conhecidas
Página 78 - I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.
Página 59 - The homely nurse doth all she can To make her foster-child, her inmate, Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the Child among his new-born blisses, A six years...
Página 26 - Many there be that complain of Divine Providence for suffering Adam to transgress; foolish tongues! When God gave him reason, he gave him freedom to choose, for reason is but choosing; he had been else a mere artificial Adam, such an Adam as he is in the motions.
Página 46 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, ^ That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Página 72 - There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them; who, in love and truth, Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth : Glad Hearts! without reproach or blot Who do thy work, and know it not: Oh!
Página 34 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Página 104 - Our revels now are ended... These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air, And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind: we are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep..
Página 92 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown ! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword : The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
Página 92 - Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what is mortal, and unsure To all that fortune, death and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell.
Página 24 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring, Or chasms, and watery depths ; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Referências a este livro
Melville and the Politics of Identity: From King Lear to Moby-Dick Julian Markels Pré-visualização limitada - 1993 |
Romantische Ästhetik: Untersuchungen z. engl. Kunstlehre d. späten 18. u ... Herbert Mainusch Visualização de excertos - 1969 |