Lectures on English Literature: From Chaucer to TennysonParry & McMillan, 1858 - 411 páginas |
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... verse - Henry VIII . -Edward VI . - Landor's Sonnet - Sternhold and Hopkins— Bishop Latimer - Goodwin Sands and Tenterden Steeple- " Bloody Mary " -Sackville- " The Mirror of Magistrates ” — His career - Age of Elizabeth - Contrasts of ...
... verse - Henry VIII . -Edward VI . - Landor's Sonnet - Sternhold and Hopkins— Bishop Latimer - Goodwin Sands and Tenterden Steeple- " Bloody Mary " -Sackville- " The Mirror of Magistrates ” — His career - Age of Elizabeth - Contrasts of ...
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... verse ; from its earliest periods down to our own times , -from Chaucer to Southey and Charles Lamb ; and it behooves us to blend it with graver or reading , to bring it , like the innocent and APPLICATION OF LITERARY PRINCIPLES . 63.
... verse ; from its earliest periods down to our own times , -from Chaucer to Southey and Charles Lamb ; and it behooves us to blend it with graver or reading , to bring it , like the innocent and APPLICATION OF LITERARY PRINCIPLES . 63.
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... verse , considered simply as an organ of expression and har- mony , may be made ; but to readers who confine them- selves to prose , the metrical form becomes repulsive instead of attractive . It has been well observed by a living ...
... verse , considered simply as an organ of expression and har- mony , may be made ; but to readers who confine them- selves to prose , the metrical form becomes repulsive instead of attractive . It has been well observed by a living ...
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... that evening ; -the subject of which will be " The Study of the English Language , considered as a source of enjoyment from its powers in prose and verse . " LECTURE III . The English Language . * Medium of 84 LECTURE SECOND .
... that evening ; -the subject of which will be " The Study of the English Language , considered as a source of enjoyment from its powers in prose and verse . " LECTURE III . The English Language . * Medium of 84 LECTURE SECOND .
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... verse . My desire to say something on this sub- ject has been prompted by the conviction that some atten- tion to it will increase our enjoyment of books , and will ia fact give the reader a superadded pleasure . In our reading , we are ...
... verse . My desire to say something on this sub- ject has been prompted by the conviction that some atten- tion to it will increase our enjoyment of books , and will ia fact give the reader a superadded pleasure . In our reading , we are ...
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Página 276 - I see before me the Gladiator lie: He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd 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 hail'd the wretch who won.
Página 307 - Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years? They are leaning their young heads against their mothers, And that cannot stop their tears. The young lambs are bleating in the meadows, The young birds are chirping in the nest, The young fawns are playing with the shadows, The young flowers are blowing toward the west But the young, young children, O my brothers, They are weeping bitterly ! They are weeping in the playtime of the others, In the country of the free.
Página 314 - 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.
Página 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.
Página 36 - Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good : Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.
Página 328 - Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O Sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. O well for the fisherman's 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 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.
Página 287 - 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.
Página 207 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
Página 224 - 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 cheered mild Spenser, called from Faery-land To struggle through dark ways; and when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet ; whence he blew Soul-animating strains — alas, too few...