The Classical Influence in English Literature in the Nineteenth Century: And Other Essays and NotesStratford Company, 1918 - 150 Seiten |
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Seite 105 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day ; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Seite 74 - The vision of Christ that thou dost see Is my vision's greatest enemy. Thine has a great hook nose like thine; Mine has a snub nose like to mine. Thine is the friend of all mankind; Mine speaks in parables to the blind.
Seite 82 - The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after the death of the vegetated body. This world of imagination is infinite and eternal, whereas the world of generation or vegetation is finite and temporal There exist in that eternal world the eternal realities of everything which we see reflected in this vegetable glass of nature.
Seite 125 - Yorick had an invincible dislike and opposition in his nature to gravity ; — not to gravity as such; — for where gravity was wanted, he would be the most grave or serious of mortal men for days and weeks together; — but he was an enemy to the affectation of it, and declared open war against it, only as it appeared a cloak for ignorance, or for folly: and then, whenever it fell in his way, however sheltered and protected, he seldom gave it much quarter.
Seite 145 - SHADED lamp and a waving blind, And the beat of a clock from a distant floor : On this scene enter — winged, horned, and spined— A longlegs, a moth, and a dumbledore ; While 'mid my page there idly stands A sleepy fly, that rubs its hands . . . Thus meet we five, in this still place, At this point of time, at this point in space.
Seite 52 - Hers is the head upon which all ' the ends of the world are come,' and the eyelids are a little weary. It is a beauty wrought out from within upon the flesh, the deposit, little cell by cell, of strange thoughts and fantastic reveries and exquisite passions. Set it for a moment beside one of those white Greek goddesses or beautiful women of antiquity, and how would they be troubled by this beauty, into which the soul with all its maladies has passed...
Seite 62 - I became the spendthrift of my own genius, and to waste an eternal youth gave me a curious joy. Tired of being on the heights, I deliberately went to the depths in the search for new sensation. What the paradox was to me in the sphere of thought, perversity became to me in the sphere of passion.
Seite 146 - Lothly a rival's air, Cankering in black despair If overborne. Since, then, no grace I find Taught me of trees, Turn I back to my kind, Worthy as these. There at least smiles abound, There discourse trills around, There, now a'nd then, are found Life-loyalties.
Seite 84 - For Mercy has a human heart; Pity a human face; And Love, the human form divine; And Peace, the human dress.
Seite 72 - Dear Sir, excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I take a pencil or graver into my hand, even as I used to be in my youth, and as I have not been for twenty dark, but very profitable years.