The Methodical Study of LiteratureLes Presses Universitaires de France, 1924 - 162 Seiten |
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Alice alliteration amphibrach analysis Arnold Bennett artistic beauty boat canto Charles Lamb colour commentary criticism dawn definite Dream Children E. V. Lucas effect Eldorado emotion endeavour English Literature Essay example expression external eyes fact feel feminine rhyme French give Grecian Urn Greek harmony Higher School Certificate Homer Hugo iamb idea imagination importance impression instance intellectual interpretation Keats Lamb Lamb's language Lesbos light lines literary live logical looked Matthew Arnold meaning merely method metrical metrist mind nature original ourselves passage perhaps philology phrase picture piece poem poet poet's poetic poetry point of view prose quatrain reader realise rhyme Ruskin Sappho scheme sense shadow sion soul sound spirit spondee stanza structure style suggest Swinburne Swinburne's things thou thought tion tone trochee truth unity vocabulary vowel whole wonderful words writers
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Seite 134 - Who are these coming to the sacrifice? To what green altar, O mysterious priest, Lead'st thou that heifer lowing at the skies, And all her silken flanks with garlands drest?
Seite 134 - O attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and the trodden weed; Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral! When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, Beauty is truth, truth beauty,— that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
Seite 118 - I was lame-footed; and how when he died, though he had not been dead an hour, it seemed as if he had died a great while ago, such a distance there is betwixt life and death; and how I bore his death as I thought pretty well at first, but afterwards it haunted and haunted me; and though I did not cry or take it to heart as some do, and as I think he would have done if I had died, yet I missed him all day long, and knew not till then how much I had loved him.
Seite 118 - I became in doubt which of them stood there before me, or whose that bright hair was ; and while I stood gazing, both the children gradually grew fainter to my view, receding, and still receding, till nothing at last but two mournful features were seen in the uttermost distance, which, without speech, strangely impressed upon me the effects of speech : " We are not of Alice, nor of thee, nor are we children at all. The children of Alice call Bartrum father. We are nothing • less than nothing, and...
Seite 117 - ... would mount the most mettlesome horse he could get, when but an imp no bigger than themselves, and make it carry him half over the county in a morning, and join the hunters when there were any out ; and yet he loved the old great house and gardens too, but had too much spirit to be always pent up within their boundaries...
Seite 116 - And then I told how, when she came to die, her funeral was attended by a concourse of all the poor, and some of the gentry too, of the...
Seite 116 - ... somewhere in the adjoining county ; but still she lived in it in a manner as if it had been her own, and kept up the dignity of the great house in a sort while she lived, which afterwards came to decay, and was nearly pulled down, and all its old ornaments stripped and carried away to the owner's other house, where they were set up, and looked as awkward as if...
Seite 115 - ... not indeed the mistress of this great house, but had only the charge of it (and yet in some respects she might be said to be the mistress of it too) committed to her by the owner, who preferred living in a newer and more fashionable mansion which he had purchased...
Seite 118 - I explained to them what coyness, and difficulty, and denial meant in maidens — when suddenly, turning to Alice, the soul of the first Alice looked out at her eyes with such a reality of re-presentment, that I became in doubt which of them stood there before me, or whose that bright hair was...
Seite 116 - Testament besides. Here little Alice spread her hands. Then I told what a tall, upright, graceful person their greatgrandmother Field once was; and how in her youth she was esteemed the best dancer — here Alice's little right foot played an involuntary movement, till upon my looking grave, it...