Lectures on English Literature: From Chaucer to TennysonParry & McMillan, 1855 - 411 էջ |
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Էջ 86
... verse , our minds have , no doubt , an unconscious perception of the goodness of the style , just as we have unconscious freedom of breath in a pure atmosphere ; but if the perception of style be made reflective , it may come to have ...
... verse , our minds have , no doubt , an unconscious perception of the goodness of the style , just as we have unconscious freedom of breath in a pure atmosphere ; but if the perception of style be made reflective , it may come to have ...
Էջ 87
... verse , I should like , without vexing it with comment , or criticism , or analysis , but simply sound- ing it , to show what an instrument it has been in the hands of its great masters . At I wish , however , to accomplish something ...
... verse , I should like , without vexing it with comment , or criticism , or analysis , but simply sound- ing it , to show what an instrument it has been in the hands of its great masters . At I wish , however , to accomplish something ...
Էջ 105
... 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 the verse by a momentary detention , but also in giving ...
... 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 the verse by a momentary detention , but also in giving ...
Էջ 108
... verse ; and , in the first place , let me say that it is a happy trait in our literature that it has no peculiar poetic diction . Words that are used in good prose are not excluded from poetry , and words which the poets employ belong ...
... verse ; and , in the first place , let me say that it is a happy trait in our literature that it has no peculiar poetic diction . Words that are used in good prose are not excluded from poetry , and words which the poets employ belong ...
Էջ 109
... verse . The study of English poetry , being in closer affinity with the prose , admits of an important use in the forma- tion of a good prose style . . A mind as earnestly practi- cal as Dr. Franklin's observed this , and he recommended ...
... verse . The study of English poetry , being in closer affinity with the prose , admits of an important use in the forma- tion of a good prose style . . A mind as earnestly practi- cal as Dr. Franklin's observed this , and he recommended ...
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Էջ 316 - 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.
Էջ 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.
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 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 325 - 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.
Էջ 287 - Man knoweth not the price thereof ; Neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith, It is not in me: And the sea saith, It is not with me.
Էջ 194 - But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began...
Էջ 115 - There is not wind enough to twirl The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.
Էջ 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...
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...