Childhood in Literature and Art: With Some Observations on Literature for Children; a StudyHoughton, Mifflin, 1894 - 253 páginas |
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... expression . When we come thus upon this picture of Hector's parting with Andromache , we are impressed chiefly with the fact that it is human life in outline . Here are great facts of human experience , and they are so told that not ...
... expression . When we come thus upon this picture of Hector's parting with Andromache , we are impressed chiefly with the fact that it is human life in outline . Here are great facts of human experience , and they are so told that not ...
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... expression in tragic art , was oppressed by the problems , not alone of individual fate , but of the subtle relations of human life . The serpents wind- ing about Laokoön entwined in their folds the shrinking youths , and the father's ...
... expression in tragic art , was oppressed by the problems , not alone of individual fate , but of the subtle relations of human life . The serpents wind- ing about Laokoön entwined in their folds the shrinking youths , and the father's ...
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... expression of truth . The Athenian , in the dialogue , is speaking , and says : " The next suggestion which I have to offer is that all our three choruses [ that is , choruses representing the three epochs of life ] shall sing to the ...
... expression of truth . The Athenian , in the dialogue , is speaking , and says : " The next suggestion which I have to offer is that all our three choruses [ that is , choruses representing the three epochs of life ] shall sing to the ...
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... of Greek interiors , and by means of them we find a side - light thrown upon the more majestic expressions of poetic and dramatic art . The Anthology gathers for us the epi- grams , epitaphs 28 CHILDHOOD IN LITERATURE.
... of Greek interiors , and by means of them we find a side - light thrown upon the more majestic expressions of poetic and dramatic art . The Anthology gathers for us the epi- grams , epitaphs 28 CHILDHOOD IN LITERATURE.
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... expression , to make a fuss over what it feels , or wants others to feel , whereas an older and a nobler art , which is by no means extinct among us , prefers to indicate emotion rather than to dwell on it ? " III IN HEBREW LIFE AND ...
... expression , to make a fuss over what it feels , or wants others to feel , whereas an older and a nobler art , which is by no means extinct among us , prefers to indicate emotion rather than to dwell on it ? " III IN HEBREW LIFE AND ...
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Página 146 - Humble and rustic life was generally chosen, because in that condition the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language; because in that condition of life our elementary feelings coexist in a state of greater simplicity and consequently may be more accurately contemplated and more forcibly communicated; because the manners of rural life germinate from those elementary feelings and...
Página 45 - Thus saith the Lord of Hosts; There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in his hand for very age. And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.
Página 102 - And said unto them, Whosoever shall receive this child in my name receiveth me: and whosoever shall receive me receiveth him that sent me: for he that is least among you all, the same shall be great.
Página 134 - Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw: Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite: Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age: Pleased with this bauble still, as that before; Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er.
Página 136 - There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets found ; The redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground.
Página 157 - Hence in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore...
Página 124 - Peace, peace! Dost thou not see my baby at my breast, That sucks the nurse asleep?
Página 152 - O Derwent ! winding among grassy holms Where I was looking on, a babe in arms, Make ceaseless music that composed my thoughts To more than infant softness, giving me Amid the fretful dwellings of mankind A foretaste, a dim earnest, of the calm That Nature breathes among the hills and groves.
Página 121 - 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 46 - Not Typhon huge ending in snaky twine ; Our Babe, to show his Godhead true, Can in his swaddling bands control the damned crew.