Readings in English Prose of the Nineteenth Century, Parte1Raymond Macdonald Alden Houghton Mifflin, 1917 - 685 páginas |
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... essay ; so is Jeffrey's discussion of the ques- tion whether popular poetry is good poetry , and De Quincey's and Newman's distinction between pure literature and mere books , and Pater's definition of Romanticism , and Stevenson's of ...
... essay ; so is Jeffrey's discussion of the ques- tion whether popular poetry is good poetry , and De Quincey's and Newman's distinction between pure literature and mere books , and Pater's definition of Romanticism , and Stevenson's of ...
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... essay against fast days , with a most cen- surable application of a text from Isaiah for its motto , lost me near five hundred of my subscribers at one blow . In the two following numbers I made enemies of all my Jacobin and demo ...
... essay against fast days , with a most cen- surable application of a text from Isaiah for its motto , lost me near five hundred of my subscribers at one blow . In the two following numbers I made enemies of all my Jacobin and demo ...
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... Essay on Man , 1 that I gave his name to my first - born . In addition to the gentleman , my neighbour , whose garden joined on to my little orchard , and the cultivation of whose friendship had been my sole motive in choosing Stowey ...
... Essay on Man , 1 that I gave his name to my first - born . In addition to the gentleman , my neighbour , whose garden joined on to my little orchard , and the cultivation of whose friendship had been my sole motive in choosing Stowey ...
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... essays on the most interesting subjects of the time , religious or political , in which the titles of the books or pam- phlets prefixed furnish only the name and occasion of the dis- quisition . I do not arraign the keenness or asperity ...
... essays on the most interesting subjects of the time , religious or political , in which the titles of the books or pam- phlets prefixed furnish only the name and occasion of the dis- quisition . I do not arraign the keenness or asperity ...
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... essay on the subject , " Recollections of Christ's Hospital , " which he had pub- lished in his own name . He now assumes in part the character and situa- tion of the boy Coleridge , who had no friends in London . Christ's Hos- pital ...
... essay on the subject , " Recollections of Christ's Hospital , " which he had pub- lished in his own name . He now assumes in part the character and situa- tion of the boy Coleridge , who had no friends in London . Christ's Hos- pital ...
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Página 11 - During the first year that Mr. Wordsworth and I were neighbours, our conversations turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry, the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and the power of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colours of imagination.
Página 16 - ... reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities: of sameness, with difference; of the general, with the concrete; the idea, with the image; the individual, with the representative; the sense of novelty and freshness, with old and familiar objects...
Página 62 - Come back into memory, like as thou wert in the dayspring of thy fancies, with hope like a fiery column before thee — the dark pillar not yet turned — Samuel Taylor Coleridge — Logician, Metaphysician, Bard ! — How have I seen the casual passer through the Cloisters stand still, entranced with admiration (while he weighed the disproportion between the speech and the garb of the young Mirandula), to hear thee unfold, in thy deep and sweet intonations, the mysteries of...
Página 326 - Made for our searching : yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our dark spirits. Such the sun, the moon, Trees old and young, sprouting a shady boon For simple sheep ; and such are daffodils With the green world they live in...
Página 71 - L , because he was so handsome and spirited a youth, and a king to the rest of us; and, instead of moping about in solitary corners, like some of us, he would mount the most mettlesome horse he could get when but an imp no bigger than themselves, and make it carry him half over the county in a morning, and join the hunters when there were any out...
Página 260 - Thus the Puritan was made up of two different men —the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude, passion ; the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker : but he set his foot on the neck of his king.
Página 91 - ... gridiron. Roasting by the string, or spit, came in a century or two later, I forget in whose dynasty. By such slow degrees, concludes the manuscript, do the most useful, and seemingly the most obvious arts, make their way among mankind.
Página 266 - It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time, be so little read. As compositions, they deserve the attention of every man who wishes to become acquainted with the full power of the English language. They abound with passages compared with which the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance. They are a perfect field of cloth of gold. The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise Lost...
Página 94 - ... intenerating and dulcifying a substance, naturally so mild and dulcet as the flesh of young pigs. It looks like refining a violet. Yet we should be cautious, while we condemn the inhumanity, how we censure the wisdom of the practice.
Página 260 - They went through the world, like Sir Artegal's iron man Talus with his flail, crushing and trampling down oppressors, mingling with human beings, but having neither part nor lot in human infirmities, insensible to fatigue, to pleasure, and to pain, not to be pierced by any weapon, not to be withstood by any barrier.