English LiteratureAllyn and Bacon, 1918 - 431 pagini |
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Pagina 8
... Nature , except the sea , produces no outbursts of feeling from Anglo- Saxon poets . A sense of humor seems not to have been among their gifts . The emotion of love , which has occasioned so many of the greatest poems in all languages ...
... Nature , except the sea , produces no outbursts of feeling from Anglo- Saxon poets . A sense of humor seems not to have been among their gifts . The emotion of love , which has occasioned so many of the greatest poems in all languages ...
Pagina 80
... nature . Over two hundred definite personalities figure in the plays ; and it is hardly too much to say that he has left untouched no type of character or sit- uation . From the foolish servant Launcelot Gobbo to the superlatively ...
... nature . Over two hundred definite personalities figure in the plays ; and it is hardly too much to say that he has left untouched no type of character or sit- uation . From the foolish servant Launcelot Gobbo to the superlatively ...
Pagina 81
... nature of Shakspere's portraits is due his continued wide appeal . As his friend Ben Jonson said : " He was not of an age , but for all time . " Chief Dramatists after Shakspere . - As the drama was the form of literature most favored ...
... nature of Shakspere's portraits is due his continued wide appeal . As his friend Ben Jonson said : " He was not of an age , but for all time . " Chief Dramatists after Shakspere . - As the drama was the form of literature most favored ...
Pagina 96
... nature , and his vocation naturally led to meditation on the future life . That he aimed as did hardly another ( unless Carew ) at perfection of technique and finish " is shown by His Re- quest to Julia : " 6 " Julia , if I chance to ...
... nature , and his vocation naturally led to meditation on the future life . That he aimed as did hardly another ( unless Carew ) at perfection of technique and finish " is shown by His Re- quest to Julia : " 6 " Julia , if I chance to ...
Pagina 113
... Nature within me seems In all her functions weary of herself . " A Soul Dwelling Apart . — Noble and glorious as is Mil- ton's career in many aspects , in none is it more so than in that which considers the work of his last years beside ...
... Nature within me seems In all her functions weary of herself . " A Soul Dwelling Apart . — Noble and glorious as is Mil- ton's career in many aspects , in none is it more so than in that which considers the work of his last years beside ...
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Pagina 113 - Desiring this man's art and that man's scope. With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising. Haply I think on thee...
Pagina 271 - IN Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round : And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
Pagina 238 - The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...
Pagina 272 - Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me, That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air...
Pagina 291 - Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone: Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal — yet, do not grieve ; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!
Pagina 446 - So we were left galloping, Joris and I, Past Looz and past Tongres, no cloud in the sky; The broad sun above laughed a pitiless laugh, 'Neath our feet broke the brittle bright stubble like chaff; Till over by Dalhem a dome-spire sprang white, And
Pagina 361 - Requiem Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill.
Pagina 449 - twas all one ! My favor at her breast, The dropping of the daylight in the West, The bough of cherries some officious fool Broke in the orchard for her, the white mule She rode with round the terrace — all and each Would draw from her alike the approving speech, 30 Or blush, at least.
Pagina 278 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war; And the deep thunder peal on peal afar; And near, the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier ere the morning star; While thronged the citizens with terror dumb, Or whispering, with white lips - 'The foe! they come! they come!' And wild and high the 'Cameron's gathering
Pagina 323 - ... whose mind is stored with a knowledge of the great and fundamental truths of Nature and of the laws of her operations; one who, no stunted ascetic, is full of life and fire, but whose passions are trained to come to heel by a vigorous will, the servant of a tender conscience; who has learned to love all beauty, whether of Nature or of art, to hate all vileness, and to respect others as himself.