Readings in English Prose of the Nineteenth Century, Parte1Raymond Macdonald Alden Houghton Mifflin, 1917 - 685 páginas |
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... EDUCATION MONROE C. GUTMAN LIBRARY COPYRIGHT , 1917 , BY RAYMOND MACDONALD ALDEN ALL RIGHTS RESERVED The Riverside Press CAMBRIDGE . MASSACHUSETTS PRINTED IN THE U.S.A. PREFACE THIS Volume appears in continuation of the plan which # ...
... EDUCATION MONROE C. GUTMAN LIBRARY COPYRIGHT , 1917 , BY RAYMOND MACDONALD ALDEN ALL RIGHTS RESERVED The Riverside Press CAMBRIDGE . MASSACHUSETTS PRINTED IN THE U.S.A. PREFACE THIS Volume appears in continuation of the plan which # ...
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... volume to those of major im- portance in pure literature , exclusive of fiction . While many of the names thus omitted ( such as Southey and Leigh Hunt , for example , in the earlier period , and Borrow and Leslie Stephen in the later ) ...
... volume to those of major im- portance in pure literature , exclusive of fiction . While many of the names thus omitted ( such as Southey and Leigh Hunt , for example , in the earlier period , and Borrow and Leslie Stephen in the later ) ...
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... volume , the editor's notes are restricted to two classes : facts which the reader should have in mind in begin- ning a selection , and interpretations necessary to the fairly rapid reading of the text . Many different motives lead to ...
... volume , the editor's notes are restricted to two classes : facts which the reader should have in mind in begin- ning a selection , and interpretations necessary to the fairly rapid reading of the text . Many different motives lead to ...
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... volume . There is , of course , the mainly his- torical purpose also ; but the two aims are not inconsistent . Coleridge's Biographia Literaria is very much of a document of his own time , and will seem more remote to present - day ...
... volume . There is , of course , the mainly his- torical purpose also ; but the two aims are not inconsistent . Coleridge's Biographia Literaria is very much of a document of his own time , and will seem more remote to present - day ...
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... volume , to be read or not at the reader's choice . But he has not , as far as I can discover , announced any change in his poetic creed . At all events , con- sidering it as the source of a controversy in which I have been honored more ...
... volume , to be read or not at the reader's choice . But he has not , as far as I can discover , announced any change in his poetic creed . At all events , con- sidering it as the source of a controversy in which I have been honored more ...
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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.