Chats about Books: Poets and NovelistsScribner, 1883 - 360 pages |
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... French novelist , are introduced in much the same way as they are made known to us in actual life , with cursory outward observations sufficient to frame a provisional judgment which further acquaintance will complete or modify ...
... French novelist , are introduced in much the same way as they are made known to us in actual life , with cursory outward observations sufficient to frame a provisional judgment which further acquaintance will complete or modify ...
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... French stage with gleams of its former glory . Moreover , they have been reproduced , in one form or another , in libretto , translation , or paraphrase , by the great theatres of the world , in London , St. Petersburg and New York ...
... French stage with gleams of its former glory . Moreover , they have been reproduced , in one form or another , in libretto , translation , or paraphrase , by the great theatres of the world , in London , St. Petersburg and New York ...
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... French tragedy had evinced the resolution and self - confidence of Hugo , the " Cid " would have had worthy companions , and such a direction would have been imparted to the Gallic stage as might have led Racine to consecrate his ...
... French tragedy had evinced the resolution and self - confidence of Hugo , the " Cid " would have had worthy companions , and such a direction would have been imparted to the Gallic stage as might have led Racine to consecrate his ...
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... iron rules which cramped the en- ergies of the French dramatist , but , above all , he was enjoined to respect the so - called unities . A glance at those dethroned despots may be permitted , for so long 18 Chats about Books .
... iron rules which cramped the en- ergies of the French dramatist , but , above all , he was enjoined to respect the so - called unities . A glance at those dethroned despots may be permitted , for so long 18 Chats about Books .
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... French drama to the unities of time and place . Following Boi- leau with unequal steps , critics who read Seneca in French and Aristotle in a Latin translation presumed to interpret Athenian art and regulate their country's . They ...
... French drama to the unities of time and place . Following Boi- leau with unequal steps , critics who read Seneca in French and Aristotle in a Latin translation presumed to interpret Athenian art and regulate their country's . They ...
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Page 186 - All was ended now, the hope, and the fear, and the sorrow, All the aching of heart, the restless, unsatisfied longing, All the dull, deep pain, and constant anguish of patience ! And, as she pressed once more the lifeless head to her bosom, Meekly she bowed her own, and murmured,
Page 112 - All is best, though we oft doubt, What the unsearchable dispose Of highest wisdom brings about, And ever best found in the close.
Page 324 - No need hath such to live as ye name life ; That which began in him when he began Is finished: he hath wrought the purpose through Of what did make him Man. Never shall yearnings torture him, nor sins Stain him, nor ache of earthly joys and woes Invade his safe eternal peace; nor deaths And lives recur. He goes Unto NIRVANA. He is one with life Yet lives not. He is blest, ceasing to be. OM, MANI PADME, OM! the Dewdrop slips Into the shining sea ! This is the doctrine of the KARMA.
Page 104 - Retiring from the popular noise, I seek This unfrequented place to find some ease, Ease to the body some, none to the mind From restless thoughts, that, like a deadly swarm Of hornets arm'd, no sooner found alone, But rush upon me thronging, and present Times past, what once
Page 111 - Come, come, no time for lamentation now, Nor much more cause. Samson hath quit himself Like Samson, and heroicly hath finished A life heroic, on his enemies Fully revenged ; hath left them years of mourning...
Page 315 - The victim's bonds, none staying him, so great His presence was. Then, craving leave, he spake Of life, which all can take but none can give, Life, which all creatures love and strive to keep, Wonderful, dear, and pleasant unto each, Even to the meanest; yea, a boon to all Where pity is, for pity makes the world Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.
Page 105 - Ask for this great deliverer now, and find him Eyeless in Gaza, at the mill with slaves, Himself in bonds under Philistian yoke.
Page 346 - In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe or Erra Pater ; For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale ; Resolve by sines and tangents straight, If bread or butter wanted weight ; And wisely tell what hour o' th' day The clock does strike by algebra.
Page 184 - Full of hope, and yet of heart-break, Full of all the tender pathos Of the Here and the Hereafter;— Stay and read this rude inscription, Read this Song of Hiawatha!
Page 310 - The veil is rent Which blinded me! I am as all these men Who cry upon their gods and are not heard, Or are not heeded — yet there must be aid! For them and me and all there must be help! Perchance the gods have need of help themselves, Being so feeble that when sad lips cry They cannot save!