Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English PoetsMacmillan, 1856 - 475 páginas |
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... universe most easily come and go . ality . делена impressi At no time , except during sleep , is the mind of any human being completely idle . All men have some natural and con- genial mood into which they fall when they are left to ...
... universe most easily come and go . ality . делена impressi At no time , except during sleep , is the mind of any human being completely idle . All men have some natural and con- genial mood into which they fall when they are left to ...
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... universe , severing it as by a soft cloud - line from the infinite Unknown . " Poor soul ! the centre of my sinful earth , Fooled by those rebel powers that lead thee ' stray ! " - Sonnet 146 . Here the soul , retracting its thoughts ...
... universe , severing it as by a soft cloud - line from the infinite Unknown . " Poor soul ! the centre of my sinful earth , Fooled by those rebel powers that lead thee ' stray ! " - Sonnet 146 . Here the soul , retracting its thoughts ...
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... universe which the greatest minds in all ages have ever pondered and meditated , and round which Christianity has thrown its clasp of gold . Shakespeare , then , we hold to have been essentially a medi- tative , speculative , and even ...
... universe which the greatest minds in all ages have ever pondered and meditated , and round which Christianity has thrown its clasp of gold . Shakespeare , then , we hold to have been essentially a medi- tative , speculative , and even ...
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... universe in , he was also the man of all others who was related most keenly by every fibre of his being to all the world of the real and the concrete . Better than any man he knew life to be a dream ; with as vivid a relish as any man ...
... universe in , he was also the man of all others who was related most keenly by every fibre of his being to all the world of the real and the concrete . Better than any man he knew life to be a dream ; with as vivid a relish as any man ...
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... universe , but to find out where the problem begins , and then to restrain himself within the limits of the comprehensible . ” — Ibid . vol . i . p . 272 . Goethe's theory of the intention of the Supernatural with regard to the Visible ...
... universe , but to find out where the problem begins , and then to restrain himself within the limits of the comprehensible . ” — Ibid . vol . i . p . 272 . Goethe's theory of the intention of the Supernatural with regard to the Visible ...
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Página 11 - 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, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
Página 3 - I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, Would he had blotted a thousand.
Página 54 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides, Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Página 433 - Less Philomel will deign a song, In her sweetest saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er the accustom'd oak : Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy...
Página 452 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!
Página 47 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he, who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Página 370 - How exquisitely the individual Mind (And the progressive powers perhaps no less Of the whole species) to the external World Is fitted : — and how exquisitely, too — Theme this but little heard of among men — The external World is fitted to the Mind; And the creation (by no lower name Can it be called) which they with blended might Accomplish: — this is our high argument.
Página 453 - ... boy, That he shouts with his sister at play ! O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay ! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But O for the touch of a...
Página 453 - And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand, And the sound of a voice that is still ! Break, break, break, At the foot of thy crags, O Sea ! But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me.
Página 27 - They that have power to hurt and will do none, That do not do the thing they most do show, Who, moving others, are themselves as stone...
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Wordsworth and the Formation of English Studies Ian Reid No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2004 |