The Poet's Charter: Or, The Book of JobJ. Lane, 1903 - 295 páginas |
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Página ix
... indulged is not so much by way of authority , as by necessity of illus- tration ; and the other is that I hope devout taste will not be offended by my avoidance of capital initials in pronouns referring to the Deity , ix PREFACE.
... indulged is not so much by way of authority , as by necessity of illus- tration ; and the other is that I hope devout taste will not be offended by my avoidance of capital initials in pronouns referring to the Deity , ix PREFACE.
Página x
... referring to the Deity , in which practice I have been con- tent to follow the example of our translators of the Bible . Lastly , no perfunctory observance of etiquette , but a very lively gratitude con- strains me to acknowledge the ...
... referring to the Deity , in which practice I have been con- tent to follow the example of our translators of the Bible . Lastly , no perfunctory observance of etiquette , but a very lively gratitude con- strains me to acknowledge the ...
Página 46
... referring to the Mysteries of the monks , which were the foundation of English drama . It is marred by the poet's ineradicable carelessness of rhythm and metrical art ; 1 yet " Goethe said that its beauty is such as we shall not see a ...
... referring to the Mysteries of the monks , which were the foundation of English drama . It is marred by the poet's ineradicable carelessness of rhythm and metrical art ; 1 yet " Goethe said that its beauty is such as we shall not see a ...
Página 52
... referring to Job vii , 3 ; XIX , 8-22 ; xxx , 1-15 . 2 Ibid . , p . 30 ; referring to Job xxix , 7–17 . once a month . . . . The ashes remain 52 THE POET'S CHARTER.
... referring to Job vii , 3 ; XIX , 8-22 ; xxx , 1-15 . 2 Ibid . , p . 30 ; referring to Job xxix , 7–17 . once a month . . . . The ashes remain 52 THE POET'S CHARTER.
Página 54
... the Crucifixion than Job's agony ; especially as Prometheus ( himself a 1 Cox's Commentary , p . 17 ; referring to Job XIX , 13-15 ; XXX , 1-15 ; XIX , 18 . 2 XIX , 23-27 . god ) is expiating the sin of loving Man , 54 THE POET'S CHARTER.
... the Crucifixion than Job's agony ; especially as Prometheus ( himself a 1 Cox's Commentary , p . 17 ; referring to Job XIX , 13-15 ; XXX , 1-15 ; XIX , 18 . 2 XIX , 23-27 . god ) is expiating the sin of loving Man , 54 THE POET'S CHARTER.
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Términos y frases comunes
A. H. Bullen angels argument artistic authority beauty Bible Book of Enoch Book of Job called cause CHAPTER Christian common Cox's Commentary Dean Stanley divine doctrine doubt drama earth Eliphaz emotion English Poetry Epistle of Jude Essays eternal evil existence eyes fact false fancy friends Genius God's heaven Hebrew heresy holy human Ibid idea imagination intellect Job's Kegan Paul knowledge language live Love Lucifer lyrical Macmillan Marius the Epicurean Marriage matter Matthew Arnold means Milton mind mystery nature never opinion Paradise Lost passage passion perhaps poem poet poetic possess Professor Moulton Prometheus prophet quoted reason recognised Religion religious reverence sacred Sartor Resartus Satan Science Scriptures sense song soul speak speech spirit suffering supposed surely thee things thou thought tion true truth unto verse Walter Pater Westermarck wicked William Blake wisdom woman women words worship write
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Página 81 - Oh that I knew where I might find him ! That I might come even to his seat ! I would order my cause before him, And fill my mouth with arguments.
Página 78 - But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee ; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee : 8 Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.
Página 35 - Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain account of what the mind at home, in the spacious circuits of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting; whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer and those other two of Virgil and Tasso 5 are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief, model...
Página 262 - Yet toil on, toil on: thou art in thy duty, be out of it who may; thou toilest for the altogether indispensable, for daily bread. A second man I honour, and still more highly: Him who is seen toiling for the spiritually indispensable; not daily bread, but the bread of Life.
Página 144 - Spite of this flesh to-day I strove, made head, gained ground upon the whole!" As the bird wings and sings, Let us cry, "All good things Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul!
Página xx - I mean not here the prosody of a verse, which they could not but have hit on before among the rudiments of grammar, but that sublime art which in Aristotle's Poetics, in Horace, and the Italian Commentaries of Castelvetro, Tasso, Mazzoni, and others, teaches what the laws are of a true Epic poem, what of a dramatic, what of a Lyric, what decorum is, which is the grand masterpiece to observe.
Página 188 - ... forms of worship; their enterprises, their aimless courses, their random achievements and acquirements, the impotent conclusion of longstanding facts, the tokens so faint and broken of a superintending design, the blind evolution of what turn out to be great powers or truths, the progress of things, as if from unreasoning elements, not towards final causes, the greatness and littleness of man, his farreaching aims, his short duration, the curtain hung over his futurity, the disappointments of...
Página 65 - Why am I mock'd with death; and lengthen'd out To deathless pain ? How gladly would I meet Mortality my sentence, and be earth Insensible ! How glad would lay me down As in my mother's lap ! There I should rest, And sleep secure...
Página 48 - Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or Reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling. And being restrain'd, it by degrees becomes passive, till it is only the shadow of desire.
Página 79 - Who knoweth not in all these That the hand of the Lord hath wrought this? In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind.