Lectures on English literature, from Chaucer to TennysonRarry & McMillan, 1855 - 411 pages |
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... wisdom and experience of others . To him who wanders at will through the vast spaces of literature , with the sorry guidance of good intentions and inexpe- rience , most needful are the helping hand and the pointing finger ; to him who ...
... wisdom and experience of others . To him who wanders at will through the vast spaces of literature , with the sorry guidance of good intentions and inexpe- rience , most needful are the helping hand and the pointing finger ; to him who ...
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... wisdom is ready to make its entrance into the mind that is pre- pared to give it welcome . It is mournful to think that the multitudinous oracles should be dumb to us . Furthermore , there is this difficulty , that , in the multitude ...
... wisdom is ready to make its entrance into the mind that is pre- pared to give it welcome . It is mournful to think that the multitudinous oracles should be dumb to us . Furthermore , there is this difficulty , that , in the multitude ...
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... wisdom , " Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels . " * I speak of this instance to show how a subject which is indifferent to many , and even repulsive to not a few , may be redeemed and ...
... wisdom , " Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels . " * I speak of this instance to show how a subject which is indifferent to many , and even repulsive to not a few , may be redeemed and ...
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... wisdom were recorded ? It is for all , that Clarendon's pictured page displays its great gal- lery of historic portraits : it is for all , that Arnold , in our own day , has shown how a mighty historian can throw a sacred light over ...
... wisdom were recorded ? It is for all , that Clarendon's pictured page displays its great gal- lery of historic portraits : it is for all , that Arnold , in our own day , has shown how a mighty historian can throw a sacred light over ...
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... wisdom , better . This great distinctive principle gives good guidance to us , and it may be made most practical if a little thoughtful discrimination be bestowed in our inter- course with books ; instead of apathy on the one hand , or ...
... wisdom , better . This great distinctive principle gives good guidance to us , and it may be made most practical if a little thoughtful discrimination be bestowed in our inter- course with books ; instead of apathy on the one hand , or ...
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Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...