Lectures on English Literature: From Chaucer to TennysonJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1867 - 387 Seiten |
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... considered a high academical distinction , that his disappointment was most keen and depressing . His secluded mode of life , exempt from the world's rough com- petitions ; his modest wishes ; his consciousness of services rendered and ...
... considered a high academical distinction , that his disappointment was most keen and depressing . His secluded mode of life , exempt from the world's rough com- petitions ; his modest wishes ; his consciousness of services rendered and ...
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... considered simply as an organ of expression and har- mony , may be made ; but to readers who confine them- selves to prose , the metrical form becomes repulsive instead of attractive . It has been well observed by a living writer , who ...
... considered simply as an organ of expression and har- mony , may be made ; but to readers who confine them- selves to prose , the metrical form becomes repulsive instead of attractive . It has been well observed by a living writer , who ...
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... lecture for that evening ; -the subject of which will be " The Study of the English Language , considered as a source of enjoyment from its powers in prose and verse . " LECTURE III . * The English Language . * Medium 84 LECTURE SECOND .
... lecture for that evening ; -the subject of which will be " The Study of the English Language , considered as a source of enjoyment from its powers in prose and verse . " LECTURE III . * The English Language . * Medium 84 LECTURE SECOND .
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... considered simply as an organ of expression , it may prove a little too much like parsing our pleasure . The happy , healthful - breathing asks for no analysis of the air ; the mountain - spring is quaffed without thought of what ...
... considered simply as an organ of expression , it may prove a little too much like parsing our pleasure . The happy , healthful - breathing asks for no analysis of the air ; the mountain - spring is quaffed without thought of what ...
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... considered condemnation of our native tongue . . . In dramatic verse , more particularly , our English combinations of consonants are in- valuable , not only for the purpose of reflecting grace and softness by contrast , or accelerating ...
... considered condemnation of our native tongue . . . In dramatic verse , more particularly , our English combinations of consonants are in- valuable , not only for the purpose of reflecting grace and softness by contrast , or accelerating ...
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Seite 267 - They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs, which had been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows between; But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been.
Seite 307 - Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years? They are leaning their young heads against their mothers, And that cannot stop their tears. The young lambs are bleating in the meadows, The young birds are chirping in the nest, The young fawns are playing with the shadows, The young flowers are blowing toward the west But the young, young children, O my brothers, They are weeping bitterly ! They are weeping in the playtime of the others, In the country of the free.
Seite 314 - Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols : and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Seite 36 - Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good : Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.
Seite 276 - I see before me the gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low ; And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him ; he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Seite 116 - WE watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life . Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we...
Seite 207 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
Seite 305 - Paradise, and groves Elysian, Fortunate Fields — like those of old Sought in the Atlantic Main, why should they be A history only of departed things, Or a mere fiction of what never was? For the discerning intellect of Man, When wedded to this goodly universe In love and holy passion, shall find these A simple produce of the common day.
Seite 322 - He is made one with Nature: there is heard His voice in all her music, from the moan Of thunder to the song of night's sweet bird; He is a presence to be felt and known In darkness and in light, from herb and stone, Spreading itself where'er that Power may move Which has withdrawn his being to its own; Which wields the world with never-wearied love, Sustains it from beneath, and kindles it above.
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...
Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | Lectures on English Literature: From Chaucer to Tennyson |
| Autor/in | Henry Reed |
| Herausgeber | William Bradford Reed |
| Ausgabe | 5 |
| Verlag | J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1867 |
| Original von | New York Public Library |
| Digitalisiert | 1. Nov. 2006 |
| Länge | 387 Seiten |
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