A manual of English literature and of the history of the English language [abridged from Sketches of the history of literature and learning in England].Griffin, Bohn, and Company, 1862 - 544 Seiten |
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... feeling . Certain mechanical principles or rules may have been discovered in obedience to which the versification appears to be constructed ; but the verse as verse remains not the less for our ears and hearts wholly voiceless . When it ...
... feeling . Certain mechanical principles or rules may have been discovered in obedience to which the versification appears to be constructed ; but the verse as verse remains not the less for our ears and hearts wholly voiceless . When it ...
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... feeling was different , who held his claim to be fully as good in law and justice as that of his native competitor . In taking the style of the Conqueror with respect to England , as he had been wont to take that of the Bastard with ...
... feeling was different , who held his claim to be fully as good in law and justice as that of his native competitor . In taking the style of the Conqueror with respect to England , as he had been wont to take that of the Bastard with ...
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... feeling and to a great extent even of foreign birth , were brought somewhat more under subjection to the law of the land -- and the Conquest of Ireland in 1172 , to the vast exalta- tion of the English name and power . What was the ...
... feeling and to a great extent even of foreign birth , were brought somewhat more under subjection to the law of the land -- and the Conquest of Ireland in 1172 , to the vast exalta- tion of the English name and power . What was the ...
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... feeling for the literature into which it has been wrought , -of something , probably , even of its precision as well as of its expressiveness in a higher sense . It has become , in a manner , but the skeleton of what it was , or the ...
... feeling for the literature into which it has been wrought , -of something , probably , even of its precision as well as of its expressiveness in a higher sense . It has become , in a manner , but the skeleton of what it was , or the ...
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... feeling had already begun to set in against these customs , and that , if they still kept their ground from use and wont , they had lost their hold upon any firmer or surer stay . Accordingly about a quarter of a century or thirty years ...
... feeling had already begun to set in against these customs , and that , if they still kept their ground from use and wont , they had lost their hold upon any firmer or surer stay . Accordingly about a quarter of a century or thirty years ...
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Seite 489 - What thou art we know not: What is most like thee ? From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody. Like a poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not...
Seite 296 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war; Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Seite 316 - The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Seite 437 - O' clod or stane, Adorns the histie stibble-field, Unseen, alane. There, in thy scanty mantle clad, Thy snawie bosom sun-ward spread, Thou lifts thy unassuming head In humble guise; But now the share uptears thy bed, And low thou lies! Such is the fate of artless maid, Sweet floweret of the rural shade ! By love's simplicity betray'd, And guileless trust, Till she, like thee, all soil'd, is laid Low i
Seite 494 - Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy ! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod.
Seite 493 - MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, > Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk : 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness, — That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease.
Seite 518 - Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown rats, black rats, gray rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and dozens, Brothers, sisters, husbands, wives — Followed the Piper for their lives.
Seite 493 - O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth ; That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim...
Seite 494 - Forlorn ! the very word is like a bell To toll me back from thee to my sole self ! Adieu ! the fancy cannot cheat so well As she is famed to do, deceiving elf. Adieu ! adieu ! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream, Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep In the next valley-glades : Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music: — do I wake or sleep?
Seite 430 - Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet— Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave; nor did there want Cornice or frieze, with bossy sculptures graven: The roof was fretted gold.