Lectures on English Literature: From Chaucer to TennysonParry & McMillan, 1855 - 387 páginas |
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... guages - Different eras of letters - English essay - writing- Macaulay - Southey -- Scott and Washington Irving - Archdea- con Hare - Lord Bacon's Essays - Poetic taste - Influence of 25 individual pursuits - Friends in Council ...
... guages - Different eras of letters - English essay - writing- Macaulay - Southey -- Scott and Washington Irving - Archdea- con Hare - Lord Bacon's Essays - Poetic taste - Influence of 25 individual pursuits - Friends in Council ...
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... guage in prose and verse , I should like , without vexing it with comment , or criticism , or analysis , but simply sound- ing it , to show what an instrument it has been in the hands of its great masters . I wish , however , to ...
... guage in prose and verse , I should like , without vexing it with comment , or criticism , or analysis , but simply sound- ing it , to show what an instrument it has been in the hands of its great masters . I wish , however , to ...
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... guage , and its relation to man's spiritual nature , may per- haps , in some measure , correct , or , at least , startle that error of looking upon this whole subject as a mere mat- ter of rhetoric and grammar , a superficial study of ...
... guage , and its relation to man's spiritual nature , may per- haps , in some measure , correct , or , at least , startle that error of looking upon this whole subject as a mere mat- ter of rhetoric and grammar , a superficial study of ...
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... guage , may last as long as books last . " He seems to have had no such assurance for his insular English lan- guage . Somewhat later , it needed Milton's filial and loyal affection for his mother - tongue to give it a share with the ...
... guage , may last as long as books last . " He seems to have had no such assurance for his insular English lan- guage . Somewhat later , it needed Milton's filial and loyal affection for his mother - tongue to give it a share with the ...
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... guage girdles the earth . Soon after the poet's heart gave forth its hope , English words began to find a home in the West , close begirt , however , with the fierce discords of the Indian - tongues : for years and years their home was ...
... guage girdles the earth . Soon after the poet's heart gave forth its hope , English words began to find a home in the West , close begirt , however , with the fierce discords of the Indian - tongues : for years and years their home was ...
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Página 195 - The oracles are dumb; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving: Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving: No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
Página 231 - It was said of Socrates, that he brought Philosophy down from Heaven to inhabit among Men ; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-tables, and in Coffee-houses.
Página 228 - Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man. What passion cannot Music raise and quell? When Jubal struck the chorded shell, His listening brethren stood around, And, wondering, on their faces fell To worship that celestial sound : Less than a god they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell, That spoke so sweetly, and so well.
Página 167 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Página 305 - Paradise, and groves Elysian, Fortunate Fields — like those of old Sought in the Atlantic Main — why should they be A history only of departed things, Or a mere fiction of what never was ? For the discerning intellect of Man, When wedded to this goodly universe In love and holy passion, shall find these A simple produce of the common day.
Página 275 - Of flowers yet fresh with childhood ; on the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar, Or chirps the grasshopper one good-night carol more ; He is an evening reveller, who makes His life an infancy, and sings his fill : At intervals, some bird from out the brakes Starts into voice a moment, then is still. There seems a floating whisper on the hill, But that is fancy — for the starlight dews All silently their tears of...
Página 305 - I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell; To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intensely ; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for from within were heard Murmurings, whereby the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea.
Página 111 - Scorn not the sonnet; Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart; the melody Of this small lute gave ease to Petrarch's wound; A thousand times this pipe did Tasso sound; With it Camoens soothed an exile's grief; The sonnet glittered a gay myrtle leaf Amid the cypress with which Dante crowned His visionary brow: a glow-worm lamp, It...
Página 240 - It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry , but that it is, now at length, discovered to be fictitious.
Página 305 - Beauty — a living Presence of the earth, Surpassing the most fair ideal Forms Which craft of delicate Spirits hath composed From earth's materials — waits upon my steps ; Pitches her tents before me as I move, An hourly neighbour.