Lectures on English literature, from Chaucer to TennysonRarry & McMillan, 1855 - 411 Seiten |
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... less to his feelings ; but , in all this , he is in more danger of bringing his faculties separately into action : he is more apt to be misled by our imperfect systems of metaphysics , which give us none but the most meagre theories of ...
... less to his feelings ; but , in all this , he is in more danger of bringing his faculties separately into action : he is more apt to be misled by our imperfect systems of metaphysics , which give us none but the most meagre theories of ...
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... less of wilfulness , and to a truer power of sympathy ; and the woman's spirit shall lose none of its earnest , confiding apprehensiveness in gaining more of reasoning and reflection ; and so , by reciprocal influences , that vicious ...
... less of wilfulness , and to a truer power of sympathy ; and the woman's spirit shall lose none of its earnest , confiding apprehensiveness in gaining more of reasoning and reflection ; and so , by reciprocal influences , that vicious ...
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... less docile intellects , into the deep places of the souls of mighty poets : his genius as a critic rose to its majestic height , not only by its inborn manly strength , but because , with woman - like faith , it first bowed beneath the ...
... less docile intellects , into the deep places of the souls of mighty poets : his genius as a critic rose to its majestic height , not only by its inborn manly strength , but because , with woman - like faith , it first bowed beneath the ...
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... less effective weapon than a foreign literature ; and the more remote that is , the more effective it is for osten- tation . But if there be a better purpose than feeding vanity , then , for all the best and most salutary influences ...
... less effective weapon than a foreign literature ; and the more remote that is , the more effective it is for osten- tation . But if there be a better purpose than feeding vanity , then , for all the best and most salutary influences ...
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... such confidence may be entirely unequal to that which is the simplest test - the capacity to comprehend and enjoy the poetry of other ages . The merits of the living poets must be more or less in dispute ; and 60 LECTURE SECOND .
... such confidence may be entirely unequal to that which is the simplest test - the capacity to comprehend and enjoy the poetry of other ages . The merits of the living poets must be more or less in dispute ; and 60 LECTURE SECOND .
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Seite 191 - 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 46 - For woman is not undevelopt man, But diverse : could we make her as the man, Sweet Love were slain : his dearest bond is this, Not like to like, but like in difference. Yet in the long years liker must they grow ; The man be more of woman, she of man ; He gain in sweetness and in moral height, Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world ; She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care, Nor lose the childlike in the larger mind ; Till at the last she set herself to man, Like perfect music unto...
Seite 163 - 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 227 - 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 217 - Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
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 224 - And, wondering, on their faces fell To worship that celestial sound : Less than a god they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell, That spoke so sweetly, and so well.
Seite 239 - Toll for the brave! The brave that are no more! All sunk beneath the wave, Fast by their native shore ! Eight hundred of the brave, Whose courage well was tried, Had made the vessel heel, And laid her on her side. A land-breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset; Down went the Royal George, With all her crew complete.
Seite 177 - I have of late— but wherefore I know not— lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Seite 287 - MANY a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of misery, Or the mariner, worn and wan, Never thus could voyage on Day and night, and night and day, Drifting on his dreary way, With the solid darkness black Closing round his vessel's track ; Whilst above the sunless sky, Big with clouds, hangs heavily...