Lectures on English Literature: From Chaucer to TennysonParry & McMillan, 1855 - 387 էջ |
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... light is deepened the wider it is spread , or when it opens the souls of others to share in its own enjoyment . There is perhaps no one , to whom the intercourse with books has grown to be happy and habitual , who cannot recall the time ...
... light is deepened the wider it is spread , or when it opens the souls of others to share in its own enjoyment . There is perhaps no one , to whom the intercourse with books has grown to be happy and habitual , who cannot recall the time ...
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... light of wise criticism , new powers and new beauties are made visible to our minds in books the most familiar . I have thus alluded , at the outset , to the importance of the guidance which we may receive in our intercourse with the ...
... light of wise criticism , new powers and new beauties are made visible to our minds in books the most familiar . I have thus alluded , at the outset , to the importance of the guidance which we may receive in our intercourse with the ...
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... lights into the life beyond , both are at hand with the boundless exuberance of their stores . There is the great multitude of books in our own Eng- lish words ; there is the host as large , which , in the kin- dred dialects of the ...
... lights into the life beyond , both are at hand with the boundless exuberance of their stores . There is the great multitude of books in our own Eng- lish words ; there is the host as large , which , in the kin- dred dialects of the ...
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... light and more perishable literature , recreating and gladdening the hearts of men , if but for a season ; and it is more last- ingly true of the higher literature - for instance , our abundant and varied English essay - literature ...
... light and more perishable literature , recreating and gladdening the hearts of men , if but for a season ; and it is more last- ingly true of the higher literature - for instance , our abundant and varied English essay - literature ...
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... light and shade : Men call her blind when she but turns her head , Nor scan the fault for which her tears are shed . Can dull Indifference or Hate's troubled gaze See through the secret heart's mysterious maze ? Can Scorn and Envy ...
... light and shade : Men call her blind when she but turns her head , Nor scan the fault for which her tears are shed . Can dull Indifference or Hate's troubled gaze See through the secret heart's mysterious maze ? Can Scorn and Envy ...
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Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 228 - Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man. What passion cannot Music raise and quell? When Jubal struck the chorded shell, His listening brethren stood around, 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 275 - Of flowers yet fresh with childhood ; on the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar, Or chirps the grasshopper one good-night carol more ; 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...
Էջ 305 - I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell; To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intensely ; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for from within were heard Murmurings, whereby the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea.
Էջ 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...
Էջ 240 - It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry , but that it is, now at length, discovered to be fictitious.
Էջ 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.