Lectures on English Literature, from Chaucer to TennysonJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1860 - 387 Seiten |
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... LECTURE II . APPLICATION OF LITERARY PRINCIPLES . Narrow and exclusive lines of reading to be avoided - Catholicity of taste - Charles Lamb's idea of books - Ruskin - Habits of reading comprehensive - Ancient Literature- Foreign Lan ...
... LECTURE II . APPLICATION OF LITERARY PRINCIPLES . Narrow and exclusive lines of reading to be avoided - Catholicity of taste - Charles Lamb's idea of books - Ruskin - Habits of reading comprehensive - Ancient Literature- Foreign Lan ...
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... LECTURE III . THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE . .... Page 54 Medium of ideas often forgotten - Witchery of English words— Analysis of good style difficult - The power of words - Our duty to the English language - Lord Bacon's idea of Latin ...
... LECTURE III . THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE . .... Page 54 Medium of ideas often forgotten - Witchery of English words— Analysis of good style difficult - The power of words - Our duty to the English language - Lord Bacon's idea of Latin ...
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... LECTURE V. LITERATURE OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY . Page 121 Dawn of letters a false illustration - Intellectual gloom from Ed- ward III . to Henry VIII . - Chaucer to Spenser - Caxton and the art of printing - Civil wars - Wyatt and ...
... LECTURE V. LITERATURE OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY . Page 121 Dawn of letters a false illustration - Intellectual gloom from Ed- ward III . to Henry VIII . - Chaucer to Spenser - Caxton and the art of printing - Civil wars - Wyatt and ...
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... LECTURE VII . LITERATURE OF THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES . Milton's old age - Donne's Sermons - No great school of poetry without love of nature - Blank in this respect between Paradise Lost and Thomson's Seasons - Court of ...
... LECTURE VII . LITERATURE OF THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES . Milton's old age - Donne's Sermons - No great school of poetry without love of nature - Blank in this respect between Paradise Lost and Thomson's Seasons - Court of ...
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... LECTURE X. TRAGIC AND ELEGIAC POETRY . Contrast of subjects , serious and gay - Tragic poetry - Illustrated in history - Death of the first - born - Clarendon's raising the stand- ard at Nottingham - Moral use of tragic poetry ...
... LECTURE X. TRAGIC AND ELEGIAC POETRY . Contrast of subjects , serious and gay - Tragic poetry - Illustrated in history - Death of the first - born - Clarendon's raising the stand- ard at Nottingham - Moral use of tragic poetry ...
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Seite 195 - The oracles are dumb; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving: Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving: No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
Seite 231 - It was said of Socrates, that he brought Philosophy down from Heaven to inhabit among Men ; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-tables, and in Coffee-houses.
Seite 167 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Seite 323 - The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends on me; my spirit's bark is driven, Far from the shore, far from the trembling throng Whose sails were never to the tempest given; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven! I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar; Whilst burning through the inmost veil of Heaven, The soul of Adonais, like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are.
Seite 224 - Camoens soothed an exile's grief ; The sonnet glittered a gay myrtle leaf Amid the cypress with which Dante crowned His visionary brow: a glow-worm lamp, It cheered mild Spenser, called from Faery-land To struggle through dark ways; and when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet ; whence he blew Soul-animating strains — alas, too few...
Seite 111 - Scorn not the sonnet; Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart; the melody Of this small lute gave ease to Petrarch's wound; A thousand times this pipe did Tasso sound; With it Camoens soothed an exile's grief; The sonnet glittered a gay myrtle leaf Amid the cypress with which Dante crowned His visionary brow: a glow-worm lamp, It...
Seite 193 - Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue ; she alone is free. She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her.
Seite 305 - Beauty — a living Presence of the earth, Surpassing the most fair ideal Forms Which craft of delicate Spirits hath composed From earth's materials — waits upon my steps ; Pitches her tents before me as I move, An hourly neighbour.
Seite 196 - And sullen Moloch, fled, Hath left in shadows dread His burning idol all of blackest hue ; In vain with cymbals' ring They call the grisly king, In dismal dance about the furnace blue ; The brutish gods of Nile as fast, Isis, and Orus, and the dog Anubis, haste...
Seite 275 - He is an evening reveller, who makes His life an infancy, and sings his fill; At intervals, some bird from out the brakes Starts into voice a moment, then is still. There seems a floating whisper on the hill, But that is fancy, for the starlight dews All silently their tears of love...