Lectures on English Literature, from Chaucer to TennysonJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1860 - 387 Seiten |
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... teach an angler's subtle craft , but infusing into his art so much of Christian meekness , so deep a feeling for the beauties of earth and sky , such rational loyalty to womanhood , and such simple , child - like love of song , the ...
... teach an angler's subtle craft , but infusing into his art so much of Christian meekness , so deep a feeling for the beauties of earth and sky , such rational loyalty to womanhood , and such simple , child - like love of song , the ...
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... teach you more of man , Of moral evil and of good , Than all the sages can . † My present purpose is to consider this one agency - lite- rature — as a means of culture of character , manly and womanly ; but , at the same time , let it ...
... teach you more of man , Of moral evil and of good , Than all the sages can . † My present purpose is to consider this one agency - lite- rature — as a means of culture of character , manly and womanly ; but , at the same time , let it ...
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... teach ; the function of the second is to move . The very highest work that has ever existed in the literature of knowledge ... teaching be but placed in a better order , and instantly it is superseded . Whereas the feeblest work in the ...
... teach ; the function of the second is to move . The very highest work that has ever existed in the literature of knowledge ... teaching be but placed in a better order , and instantly it is superseded . Whereas the feeblest work in the ...
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... teaching , which , in a few words , if we will but look at them , will show us the whole truth : “ And the Lord God said , It is not good that the man should be alone ; I will make him an help meet for him . ” " God doth not say ...
... teaching , which , in a few words , if we will but look at them , will show us the whole truth : “ And the Lord God said , It is not good that the man should be alone ; I will make him an help meet for him . ” " God doth not say ...
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... teach- ing the people to understand and to admire what is ad- mirable . " In following out the general principle presented in the last lecture , that literature - that which is essentially lite- rature in the highest sense of the term ...
... teach- ing the people to understand and to admire what is ad- mirable . " In following out the general principle presented in the last lecture , that literature - that which is essentially lite- rature in the highest sense of the term ...
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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...