Three Lectures on English LiteratureA. Gardner, 1889 - 184 páginas |
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... writers for the wasted hours I have spent over them . The vast majority might be characterised by the Scottish word " haverin ' " " that is , writing with little to say , with no point or a point so minute as to be invisible to all but ...
... writers for the wasted hours I have spent over them . The vast majority might be characterised by the Scottish word " haverin ' " " that is , writing with little to say , with no point or a point so minute as to be invisible to all but ...
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... writer's biography or his reminiscences is tenfold more popular than his writings ever were . Un- friendly critics of the study of literature call this , love of gossip . One of those used , the other day , the phrase " chatter about ...
... writer's biography or his reminiscences is tenfold more popular than his writings ever were . Un- friendly critics of the study of literature call this , love of gossip . One of those used , the other day , the phrase " chatter about ...
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... writer bases his assertion that Language is a fit subject of University training , and that Litera- ture is not . His argument may be epitomised as follows : - There is at present in the criticism of English literature 30 ENGLISH ...
... writer bases his assertion that Language is a fit subject of University training , and that Litera- ture is not . His argument may be epitomised as follows : - There is at present in the criticism of English literature 30 ENGLISH ...
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... writers , the judgment on whom has been by a long consensus confirmed , but from a nineteenth century , almost contemporary writer , whose rank time has not yet definitely fixed . " For instance , " he says , " I delight in the writings ...
... writers , the judgment on whom has been by a long consensus confirmed , but from a nineteenth century , almost contemporary writer , whose rank time has not yet definitely fixed . " For instance , " he says , " I delight in the writings ...
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... writing of which at present the meaning is , from him , care- fully hidden . His position is so anomalous that it is difficult to attack it seriously . The false axiom that one man's taste is as good as another's would be paralleled ...
... writing of which at present the meaning is , from him , care- fully hidden . His position is so anomalous that it is difficult to attack it seriously . The false axiom that one man's taste is as good as another's would be paralleled ...
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Página 76 - To them I may have owed another gift, Of aspect more sublime ; that blessed mood, In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world, Is lightened : — that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently lead us on.
Página 116 - Reaper Behold her, single in the field, Yon solitary Highland Lass! Reaping and singing by herself; Stop here, or gently pass! Alone she cuts and binds the grain, And sings a melancholy strain; O listen! for the Vale profound Is overflowing with the sound.
Página 79 - Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy : for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is...
Página 95 - She shall be sportive as the Fawn That wild with glee across the lawn Or up the mountain springs ; And hers shall be the breathing balm, And hers the silence and the calm Of mute insensate things. The floating Clouds their state shall lend To her ; for her the willow bend ; Nor shall she fail to see Even in the motions of the Storm Grace that shall mould the Maiden's form By silent sympathy.
Página 75 - These beauteous forms, Through a long absence, have not been to me As is a landscape to a blind man's eye : But oft, in lonely rooms, and 'mid the din Of towns and cities, I have owed to them In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart; And passing even into my purer mind. With tranquil restoration...
Página 80 - Into a sober pleasure; when thy mind Shall be a mansion for all lovely forms, Thy memory be as a dwelling-place For all sweet sounds and harmonies; oh! then, If solitude, or fear, or pain, or grief, Should be thy portion, with what healing thoughts Of tender joy wilt thou remember me, And these my exhortations!
Página 77 - In darkness and amid the many shapes Of joyless daylight; when the fretful stir Unprofitable, and the fever of the world, Have hung upon the beatings of my heart — How oft, in spirit, have I turned to thee, O sylvan Wye! thou wanderer thro' the woods, How often has my spirit turned to thee!
Página 113 - Mr. Wordsworth, on the other hand, was to propose to himself, as his object, to give the charm of novelty to things of every day, and to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural by awakening the mind's attention from the lethargy of custom, and directing it to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us...
Página 88 - Dear child ! dear girl ! that walkest with me here, If thou appear untouched by solemn thought, Thy nature is not therefore less divine : Thou liest in Abraham's bosom all the year ; And worshipp'st at the temple's inner shrine, God being with thee when we know it not.
Página 86 - What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower ; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind ; In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be ; In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of human suffering ; In the faith that looks through death, In years that bring the philosophic mind.