Lectures and Essays, Volumen 1Macmillan and Company, limited, 1905 - 740 páginas |
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... with all his sensitiveness to beauty of form and expression , Ainger's interest in literature was in the main ethical . He was the product of a time when our English poets and imaginative writers were largely concerned with ideas PREFACE ...
... with all his sensitiveness to beauty of form and expression , Ainger's interest in literature was in the main ethical . He was the product of a time when our English poets and imaginative writers were largely concerned with ideas PREFACE ...
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... beauty , invention , and resource , one is aware of a prodigality that at first repels instead of attracting . " Wading through unmown grass " has been an image well invented to describe the reader's experience . But the prodigality of ...
... beauty , invention , and resource , one is aware of a prodigality that at first repels instead of attracting . " Wading through unmown grass " has been an image well invented to describe the reader's experience . But the prodigality of ...
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... beauty of these lines . At this stage of Shakspeare's mastery over the resources of blank verse we must at last feel that the battle of blank verse against rhyme is lost and won . In those earlier plays - rich also in a beauty of their ...
... beauty of these lines . At this stage of Shakspeare's mastery over the resources of blank verse we must at last feel that the battle of blank verse against rhyme is lost and won . In those earlier plays - rich also in a beauty of their ...
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... beauty , poetry , eloquence , power , and charm as Hamlet , yet there must be ten times as many often- quoted passages from Hamlet as from it . you care to refresh your memory by turning to any Handbook of Familiar Quotations ( a ...
... beauty , poetry , eloquence , power , and charm as Hamlet , yet there must be ten times as many often- quoted passages from Hamlet as from it . you care to refresh your memory by turning to any Handbook of Familiar Quotations ( a ...
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... beauty of the story is Shakspeare's , for the conclusion of the whole matter in Greene , including the death of the queen , the suicide of the king , and so forth , is crude and unpleasing in the extreme . We are thus able to test that ...
... beauty of the story is Shakspeare's , for the conclusion of the whole matter in Greene , including the death of the queen , the suicide of the king , and so forth , is crude and unpleasing in the extreme . We are thus able to test that ...
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admirable Barbauld beauty better blank verse Burns Burns's called character Charles Lamb charm Church comedy Coriolanus Cowper critics doubt drama dramatist Edgeworth effect England English euphuism Falstaff familiar famous fancy fashion feel fiction genius Hamlet heart Henry Henry IV human humour humourist imagination imitation incidents interest lady language lectures literary literature live Lollard Lord Love's Labour's Lost Lyly Lyly's matter Merchant of Venice misanthropy Moor Park moral nature never novel once perhaps persons play poem poet poetic poetry Pope Popian popular prose reader remember rhyme Richard Lovell Edgeworth romance Romeo and Juliet satire scenes Scott Scottish sense sentiment Shak Shakspeare Shakspeare's Shakspearian Sir John Sir John Oldcastle stage stanza Stella story style sweet Swift taste things thought Timon tion true truth whole Winter's Tale words Wordsworth write written wrote young
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Página 22 - See! how she leans her cheek upon her hand: O! that I were a glove upon that hand, That I might touch that cheek.
Página 370 - Life! I know not what thou art, But know that thou and I must part; And when, or how, or where we met, I own to me's a secret yet...
Página 85 - O Proserpina, For the flowers now, that frighted thou let'st fall From Dis's waggon ! daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty ; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath...
Página 323 - O wert thou in the cauld blast, On yonder lea, on yonder lea, My plaidie to the angry airt, I'd shelter thee, I'd shelter thee : Or did misfortune's bitter storms Around thee blaw, around thee blaw, Thy bield should be my bosom, To share it a', to share it a'.
Página 311 - Burns seemed much affected by the print, or rather by the ideas which it suggested to his mind. He actually shed tears. He asked whose the lines were, and it chanced that nobody but myself remembered that they occur in a half-forgotten poem of Langhorne's, called by the unpromising title of
Página 373 - And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
Página 306 - What is title? What is treasure? What is reputation's care ? If we lead a life of pleasure 'Tis no matter how or where...
Página 71 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Página 320 - MORISON. 0 Mary ! at thy window be ! It is the wish'd, the trysted hour : Those smiles and glances let me see That make the miser's treasure poor ! How blithely wad I bide the stoure, A weary slave frae sun to sun, Could I the rich reward secure, The lovely Mary Morison ! Yestreen, when to the trembling string The dance gaed through the lighted ha', To thee my fancy took its wing ; I sat, but neither heard nor saw.
Página 223 - And to urge another argument of a parallel nature: if Christianity were once abolished, how could the Freethinkers, the strong reasoners, and the men of profound learning be able to find another subject so calculated in all points whereon to display their abilities ? What wonderful productions of wit should we be deprived of from those whose genius, by continual practice, hath been wholly turned upon raillery and invectives against religion, and would therefore never be able to shine or distinguish...
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A Manual of the Writings in Middle English, 1050-1500, Volumen 4 Jonathan Burke Severs,Albert E. Hartung,Peter G. Beidler No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 1967 |