Childhood in Literature and Art: With Some Observations on Literature for Children; a StudyHoughton, Mifflin, 1894 - 253 páginas |
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... artistic form to political thought . There is a frequent recurrence by Plato to the subject of child- hood in the state , and we may see in his presentation not only the germinal relation which childhood bears , so that education be ...
... artistic form to political thought . There is a frequent recurrence by Plato to the subject of child- hood in the state , and we may see in his presentation not only the germinal relation which childhood bears , so that education be ...
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... artistic form in some of the poems already named ; he did it methodically and with phi- losophic intent in his autobiographic poem The Prelude , and also in The Excursion . Listen how he speaks of his infancy even , giving it by ...
... artistic form in some of the poems already named ; he did it methodically and with phi- losophic intent in his autobiographic poem The Prelude , and also in The Excursion . Listen how he speaks of his infancy even , giving it by ...
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... artistic presentation is truer and more final than his exegesis . Whoever reads this great ode is aware of the rise and fall of the tide of thought ; he hears the poet reason- ing with himself ; he sees him passing in imagination out of ...
... artistic presentation is truer and more final than his exegesis . Whoever reads this great ode is aware of the rise and fall of the tide of thought ; he hears the poet reason- ing with himself ; he sees him passing in imagination out of ...
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... artistic purpose , and the two streams of tendency have ever since been recognizable , sometimes separate , of- tener combined . The Lambs ' own work was illustrative of this union of the didactic and the artistic . It is outside the ...
... artistic purpose , and the two streams of tendency have ever since been recognizable , sometimes separate , of- tener combined . The Lambs ' own work was illustrative of this union of the didactic and the artistic . It is outside the ...
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... artistic pleasure , such as the domestic sense , the pride of family , the ease of procuring uncon- scious models . No one can visit an English exhibition of paintings without being struck by the extraordinary number of subjects taken ...
... artistic pleasure , such as the domestic sense , the pride of family , the ease of procuring uncon- scious models . No one can visit an English exhibition of paintings without being struck by the extraordinary number of subjects taken ...
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Admetus Agamemnon Alkestis Andersen angels artistic Astyanax babe birth Bodleys character charm chil child Jesus CHILDHOOD IN LITERATURE childish Christ Christianity church conception consciousness death Dickens divine dren early element Elizabethan era English literature expression eyes fairy fairy tales father feeling figure German Goethe Goody Two Shoes Greek HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN Hawthorne heaven Homer hood HORACE E human Iliad illustration imagination incidents infant innocent Joseph literature and art literature for children look Luca della Robbia Madonna Mary mind mother nature ness NOAH WEBSTER OBSERVATIONS ON LITERATURE passage person picture Plato play poem poet poetic poetry present Puritan Raphael regard relation religious Renaissance Roman says scarcely sentiment significant solitude Sophocles soul spirit story sweet tale tender thee things thou thought tion truth ture Vicar of Wakefield Virgin words Wordsworth writing young youth
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Página 116 - 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 15 - 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 72 - 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 104 - 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 106 - 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 127 - 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 91 - 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 plucked my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.
Página 94 - Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind ; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind...
Página 125 - I was often unable to think of external things as having external existence, and I communed with all that I saw as something not apart from, but inherent in, my own immaterial nature. Many times while going to school have I grasped at a wall or tree to recall myself from this abyss of idealism to the reality.
Página 120 - As homeward through the lane I went with lazy feet, This song to myself did I oftentimes repeat; And it seemed, as I retraced the ballad line by line, That but half of it was hers, and one half of it was mine. Again, and once again, did I repeat the song : "Nay...