Introduction to English literature, from Chaucer to TennysonJ.F. Shaw, 1857 - 360 pagini |
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Pagina 13
... observe the books which are Litera- ture , how they speak to a people - to a whole nation — to scattered nations over the earth linked together by community of speech , above all such glorious community as our English speech ; nay ...
... observe the books which are Litera- ture , how they speak to a people - to a whole nation — to scattered nations over the earth linked together by community of speech , above all such glorious community as our English speech ; nay ...
Pagina 34
... observe or engender the interest as best you may , in the young mind , and then work with that - expanding , cultivating , chastening it . It matters little from what point , or with what book a young reader Degins his career , provided ...
... observe or engender the interest as best you may , in the young mind , and then work with that - expanding , cultivating , chastening it . It matters little from what point , or with what book a young reader Degins his career , provided ...
Pagina 37
... observe that the large components of it are history and poetry . How little else is there in the Bible ! In the Old Testament all is chronicle and song , and the high - wrought poetry of prophecy . In the New Testament are the same ...
... observe that the large components of it are history and poetry . How little else is there in the Bible ! In the Old Testament all is chronicle and song , and the high - wrought poetry of prophecy . In the New Testament are the same ...
Pagina 41
... observe how two authors , of the finest powers in these two high departments - biography and history - after carrying those powers to the farthest , profess their sense of how much remains unaccomplished ; and , moreover , their ...
... observe how two authors , of the finest powers in these two high departments - biography and history - after carrying those powers to the farthest , profess their sense of how much remains unaccomplished ; and , moreover , their ...
Pagina 52
... Observe what a propensity there is to to substitute the word " individual , ” ( and unfitly too ) for such a clear , simple , short word as " man . " It seems to be employed as a sort of midway expression between " man and “ gentleman ...
... Observe what a propensity there is to to substitute the word " individual , ” ( and unfitly too ) for such a clear , simple , short word as " man . " It seems to be employed as a sort of midway expression between " man and “ gentleman ...
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Pagina 98 - I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory ; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no...
Pagina 176 - 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.
Pagina 133 - 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. And accordingly they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment...
Pagina 160 - 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.
Pagina 154 - I see before me the gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low ; And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him ; he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Pagina 147 - They parted - ne'er to meet again! But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs, which had been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows between; But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been.
Pagina 161 - O Lady! we receive but what we give And in our life alone does Nature live: Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud! And would we aught behold of higher worth, Than that inanimate cold world allowed To the poor loveless ever-anxious crowd, Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth And from the soul itself must there be sent A sweet and potent voice, of its own birth, Of all sweet sounds the life and element!
Pagina 160 - When elements to elements conform, And dust is as it should be, shall I not Feel all. I see, less dazzling, but more warm? The bodiless thought? the spirit of each spot, Of which, even now, I share at times the immortal lot ? LXXV.
Pagina 95 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet; and yet it is sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobwebs of that uncivil age, what would it work, trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar?
Pagina 59 - Is the night chilly and dark ? The night is chilly, but not dark. The thin gray cloud is spread on high, It covers but not hides the sky. The moon is behind, and at the full ; And yet she looks both small and dull. The night is chill, the cloud is gray : Tis a month before the month of May, And the Spring comes slowly up this way.