Lamb's Criticism: A Selection from the Literary Criticism of Charles LambThe University Press, 1923 - 114 Seiten |
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... less easy to get at than that of any other great English critic . I venture , therefore , to hope that the collection of the best of it into a small volume may prove useful . The following pieces have been included in their entirety ...
... less easy to get at than that of any other great English critic . I venture , therefore , to hope that the collection of the best of it into a small volume may prove useful . The following pieces have been included in their entirety ...
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... less ambitious forms of criticism , in which reason is mixed in larger pro- portion , and caprice has less chance to do mischief ; but yet ' it must be admitted that the highest successes in criticism are only possible when the greatest ...
... less ambitious forms of criticism , in which reason is mixed in larger pro- portion , and caprice has less chance to do mischief ; but yet ' it must be admitted that the highest successes in criticism are only possible when the greatest ...
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... less , whereas Sidney's phrase , like a reflector in a lamp , permanently increases the value of ballad literature , is indeed almost a part of it , and if lost would carry away not a little of its virtue . Now it is the first and ...
... less , whereas Sidney's phrase , like a reflector in a lamp , permanently increases the value of ballad literature , is indeed almost a part of it , and if lost would carry away not a little of its virtue . Now it is the first and ...
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... less than Lamb's re - creative power , and he identifies himself less with the thing he loves , though he loves it as much . He communicates his own enjoyment , and makes us a defiant present of it , as his ; but in Lamb the old poet ...
... less than Lamb's re - creative power , and he identifies himself less with the thing he loves , though he loves it as much . He communicates his own enjoyment , and makes us a defiant present of it , as his ; but in Lamb the old poet ...
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... less relish . It is as wrong to consider Lamb's occultism and antiquarianism as his most important characteristics as it is to exaggerate his quaintness . His chief concern was with great literature , in particular with Shakespeare ...
... less relish . It is as wrong to consider Lamb's occultism and antiquarianism as his most important characteristics as it is to exaggerate his quaintness . His chief concern was with great literature , in particular with Shakespeare ...
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acted actor affect Ancient Marinere appears apprehensions basil beautiful character CHARLES LAMB charm Coleridge comedy confess Cowper criticism Crusoe delight divine doth dramatic dream Duchess of Malfy E. V. Lucas Essays of Elia express faculty fair fancy favourite feel fiction Garrick genius grace Grongar Hill Hamlet happy hate hath heart human humour images imagination Isabella Italic type JOHN CLARE Lady Lamb Lamb's Lamia Lear less Letter live lover Macbeth manner Milton mind mirth moral narration nature never Othello passage passion person play pleasure poem poet poetical poetry reader Richard scenes SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL SECONDARY NOVELS seems sense sentiment Shakspeare shew Sir Philip Sydney sonnet sort soul speak spectators spirit stage story suffer sweet tender thing THOMAS MIDDLETON thought tragedy true truth verse virtue WILLIAM ROWLEY Wither wonder words Wordsworth writing
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Seite 46 - ... be thought on ; even as he himself neglects it. On the stage we see nothing but corporal infirmities and weakness, the impotence of rage; while we read it, we see not Lear, but we are Lear, — we are in his mind, we are sustained by a grandeur which baffles the malice of daughters and...
Seite 101 - Of silence, though there be no voice ; — the clouds, The mist, the shadows, light of golden suns, Motions of moonlight, all come thither — touch, And have an answer — thither come, and shape A language not unwelcome to sick hearts And idle spirits : — there the sun himself, At the calm close of summer's longest day Rests his substantial orb ; — between those heights And on the top of either pinnacle, More keenly than elsewhere in night's blue vault, Sparkle the stars, as of their station...
Seite 9 - Despair at me doth throw; 0 make in me those civil wars to cease; 1 will good tribute pay, if thou do so. Take thou of me smooth pillows, sweetest bed, A chamber deaf to noise and blind to light...
Seite 14 - He chief delight and pleasure took; And on the mountain Partheny, Upon the crystal liquid brook, The Muses met him every day, That taught him sing, to write, and say. When he descended down the mount, His personage seemed most divine: A thousand graces one might count Upon his lovely chearful eyne, To hear him speak, and sweetly smile, You were in Paradise the while.
Seite 113 - Half-hidden, like a mermaid in sea-weed, Pensive awhile she dreams awake, and sees, In fancy, fair St. Agnes in her bed. But dares not look behind, or all the charm is fled.
Seite 12 - By no encroachment wrong'd, nor time forgot ; Nor blamed for blood, nor shamed for sinful deed. And that you know, I envy you no lot Of highest wish, I wish you so much bliss, Hundreds of years you STELLA'S feet may kiss.
Seite 9 - The baiting place of wit, the balm of woe, The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, Th' indifferent judge between the high and low...
Seite 102 - 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.
Seite 102 - Authentic tidings of invisible things; Of ebb and flow, and ever-during power; And central peace, subsisting at the heart Of endless agitation.
Seite 85 - God has befallen on me; and though among the follies of my life, building and planting have not been the least, and have cost me more than I have the confidence to own; yet they have been fully recompensed by the sweetness and satisfaction of this retreat, where, since my resolution taken of never entering again into any public employments, I have passed five years without ever once going to town, though I am almost in sight of it, and have a house there always ready to receive me.