Lectures on English Literature: From Chaucer to TennysonParry & McMillan, 1855 - 2 páginas |
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... look of painful anxiety . " They probably afterwards left this position , and repaired to the prome- nade deck . For a selfish struggle for life , with a helpless companion dependent upon him , with a physical frame unsuited for such a ...
... look of painful anxiety . " They probably afterwards left this position , and repaired to the prome- nade deck . For a selfish struggle for life , with a helpless companion dependent upon him , with a physical frame unsuited for such a ...
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... look at the simpler and humbler aims of literature - healthful , innocent recreation - the recupe- rative influences which blend so happily with the severer functions of life , or whether we contemplate its elevating and chastening ...
... look at the simpler and humbler aims of literature - healthful , innocent recreation - the recupe- rative influences which blend so happily with the severer functions of life , or whether we contemplate its elevating and chastening ...
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... look into the faces of our fellow - beings , the bright and laughing face , or the sad and sorrowing one ; there is a time too for silent , solitary , spiritual looking inward into the soul itself ; and thus by no one function , but by ...
... look into the faces of our fellow - beings , the bright and laughing face , or the sad and sorrowing one ; there is a time too for silent , solitary , spiritual looking inward into the soul itself ; and thus by no one function , but by ...
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... look at them , will show us the whole truth : " And the Lord God said , It is not good that the man should be alone ; I will make her an helpmate for him . " " God doth not say , " observes an old English divine , " it is not good for ...
... look at them , will show us the whole truth : " And the Lord God said , It is not good that the man should be alone ; I will make her an helpmate for him . " " God doth not say , " observes an old English divine , " it is not good for ...
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... look'd all native to her place , and yet On tiptoe seem'd to touch upon a sphere Too gross to tread , and all male minds perforce Sway'd to her from their orbits as they moved , And girdled her with music . Happy he With such a mother ...
... look'd all native to her place , and yet On tiptoe seem'd to touch upon a sphere Too gross to tread , and all male minds perforce Sway'd to her from their orbits as they moved , And girdled her with music . Happy he With such a mother ...
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Página 314 - Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols : and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
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 287 - Man knoweth not the price thereof ; Neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith, It is not in me: And the sea saith, It is not with me.
Página 224 - 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 cheered mild Spenser, called from Faery-land To struggle through dark ways; and when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet ; whence he blew Soul-animating strains — alas, too few...
Página 36 - Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good : Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.
Página 46 - For woman is not undevelopt man, But diverse : could we make her as the man, Sweet Love were slain : his dearest bond is this, Not like to like, but like in difference. Yet in the long years liker must they grow ; The man be more of woman, she of man ; He gain in sweetness and in moral height, Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world ; She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care, Nor lose the childlike in the larger mind ; Till at the last she set herself to man, Like perfect music unto...
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 237 - She, who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules; Charms by accepting, by submitting sways, Yet has her humour most, when she obeys...
Página 293 - MANY a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of misery, Or the mariner, worn and wan, Never thus could voyage on Day and night, and night and day, Drifting on his dreary way, With the solid darkness black Closing round his vessel's track ; Whilst above the sunless sky, Big with clouds, hangs heavily...
Página 358 - PENSION [an allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country'].