Lectures on English Literature: From Chaucer to TennysonParry & McMillan, 1855 - 387 pagini |
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Pagina 33
... Whatever is meant to minis- ter to our universal human nature , either in the nature of the subject or the handling of it , takes its place , in some range or other , of literature : and nothing PRINCIPLES OF LITERATURE . 33.
... Whatever is meant to minis- ter to our universal human nature , either in the nature of the subject or the handling of it , takes its place , in some range or other , of literature : and nothing PRINCIPLES OF LITERATURE . 33.
Pagina 35
... human beings , whose minds can be open to it , unless it had some great purpose - some worthier end than pastime . It is one of the countless and varied influences under which man's spiritual being passes through this mortal life . It ...
... human beings , whose minds can be open to it , unless it had some great purpose - some worthier end than pastime . It is one of the countless and varied influences under which man's spiritual being passes through this mortal life . It ...
Pagina 38
... human feelings to play , and the combinations into which the power of this planet has thrown our human passions of love and hatred , of ad- miration and contempt , exercises a power bad or good over human life that cannot be ...
... human feelings to play , and the combinations into which the power of this planet has thrown our human passions of love and hatred , of ad- miration and contempt , exercises a power bad or good over human life that cannot be ...
Pagina 41
... connection with my present subject . Let me say , in the first place , that I question whether it is proper , or even practicable , so to detach womanhood from our common human nature as 4 * PRINCIPLES OF LITERATURE . 41.
... connection with my present subject . Let me say , in the first place , that I question whether it is proper , or even practicable , so to detach womanhood from our common human nature as 4 * PRINCIPLES OF LITERATURE . 41.
Pagina 42
... human nature as to make it a topic of distinct disquisition ; it seems to me a little too much like a naturalist's study of some sub- ject in zoology - the form and habits of some other species . of created things . Again , as to all ...
... human nature as to make it a topic of distinct disquisition ; it seems to me a little too much like a naturalist's study of some sub- ject in zoology - the form and habits of some other species . of created things . Again , as to all ...
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Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.