Sketches of English Literature from the Fourteenth to the Present CenturyLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852 - 404 pages |
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... Newton CHAP . XIV . Aspects of the Literature of the Eighteenth Century -Its leading Minds 213 225 CHAP . XV , Eighteenth Century ( continued ) .- Imaginative Writ- ings 275 CHAP . XVI . Female Writers of the last half vi CONTENTS .
... Newton CHAP . XIV . Aspects of the Literature of the Eighteenth Century -Its leading Minds 213 225 CHAP . XV , Eighteenth Century ( continued ) .- Imaginative Writ- ings 275 CHAP . XVI . Female Writers of the last half vi CONTENTS .
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... imagination . Its true work is to guide the spirit of the age , and lead it forward in the march of sound opinion and steady progress . Chaucer did this , not perhaps with so direct a purpose , but with nearly as great ultimate suc ...
... imagination . Its true work is to guide the spirit of the age , and lead it forward in the march of sound opinion and steady progress . Chaucer did this , not perhaps with so direct a purpose , but with nearly as great ultimate suc ...
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... imagination this venerable and splen- did volume leading up the crowded myriads of its followers , and imploring as it were a blessing on the new art by dedicating its first fruits to the service of Heaven . ” * The first English ...
... imagination this venerable and splen- did volume leading up the crowded myriads of its followers , and imploring as it were a blessing on the new art by dedicating its first fruits to the service of Heaven . ” * The first English ...
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... imagination led him , exclaiming- " The ways through which my weary steps I guide , In this delightful land of Faërie , Are so exceeding spacious and wide ; And sprinkled with such sweet variety Of all that pleasant is , to ear or eye ...
... imagination led him , exclaiming- " The ways through which my weary steps I guide , In this delightful land of Faërie , Are so exceeding spacious and wide ; And sprinkled with such sweet variety Of all that pleasant is , to ear or eye ...
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... imaginative time ; and Sir Philip Sydney's " Arcadia " is full of this peculiarity , which would weary even in a short work , but is oppressive when it goes through five hundred folio pages . His essay in " Defence of Poesy " is more ...
... imaginative time ; and Sir Philip Sydney's " Arcadia " is full of this peculiarity , which would weary even in a short work , but is oppressive when it goes through five hundred folio pages . His essay in " Defence of Poesy " is more ...
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Page 356 - 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.
Page 365 - There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them; who, in love and truth, Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth : Glad Hearts! without reproach or blot Who do thy work, and know it not: Oh!
Page 365 - The innocent brightness of a new-born Day Is lovely yet; The Clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober coloring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality; Another race hath been, and other palms are won.
Page 152 - Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas, your sorrow, is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor. So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Page 127 - This many summers in a sea of glory ; But far beyond my depth ; my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Page 352 - All the earth and air With thy voice is loud, As when night is bare From one lonely cloud The moon rains out her beams, and Heaven is overflowed.
Page 124 - To kings, that fear their subjects' treachery ? O, yes it doth ; a thousand-fold it doth. And to conclude, — the shepherd's homely curds, His cold thin drink out of his leather bottle, His wonted sleep under a fresh tree's shade, All which secure and sweetly he enjoys, Is far beyond a prince's delicates, His viands sparkling in a golden cup, • His body couched in a curious bed, When care, mistrust, and treason wait on him.
Page 154 - God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Page 128 - Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee ; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not: Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's...
Page 373 - That crazed that bold and lovely knight, And that he crossed the mountain-woods, Nor rested day nor night ; That sometimes from the savage den, And sometimes from the darksome shade, And sometimes starting up at once In green and sunny glade, — There came and look'd him in the face An angel beautiful and bright ; And that he knew it was a fiend...