A Study of English and American Poets: A Laboratory MethodC. Scribner's sons, 1900 - 859 pages |
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... moral indignation in disguise . And in truth Chaucer's mer- riment flows spontaneously from a source very near the sur- face ; he is so extremely diverting because he is so extremely diverted himself . " - T . H. Ward . " His satire ...
... moral indignation in disguise . And in truth Chaucer's mer- riment flows spontaneously from a source very near the sur- face ; he is so extremely diverting because he is so extremely diverted himself . " - T . H. Ward . " His satire ...
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... moral features of the character , he makes us feel that we are among living men and not the abstracted images of men Chaucer , never forgetting the es- sential sameness of human nature , makes it possible , and even probable , that his ...
... moral features of the character , he makes us feel that we are among living men and not the abstracted images of men Chaucer , never forgetting the es- sential sameness of human nature , makes it possible , and even probable , that his ...
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... moral depravity , we feel that we can join the pure - minded Spenser in calling him ' most sacred , happy spirit . ' " - Lowell . " In all the unfettered invention and nudity of style , there was no grossness in the temper , and less in ...
... moral depravity , we feel that we can join the pure - minded Spenser in calling him ' most sacred , happy spirit . ' " - Lowell . " In all the unfettered invention and nudity of style , there was no grossness in the temper , and less in ...
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... moral aspect of the poet's impartial sensitiveness to all outward beauty . But there is no gainsaying the beauty which never fails and disappoints , open the poem where you will . There is no gainsaying its variety , often so unexpected ...
... moral aspect of the poet's impartial sensitiveness to all outward beauty . But there is no gainsaying the beauty which never fails and disappoints , open the poem where you will . There is no gainsaying its variety , often so unexpected ...
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... moral elevation and sensuous seductions , English in sentiment , Italian in externals , chivalric in subject , modern in its perfection , representing a unique and wonderful epoch , the appearance of paganism in a Christian race and the ...
... moral elevation and sensuous seductions , English in sentiment , Italian in externals , chivalric in subject , modern in its perfection , representing a unique and wonderful epoch , the appearance of paganism in a Christian race and the ...
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Page 105 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold...
Page 788 - Oh yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood ; That nothing walks with aimless feet ; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete...
Page 116 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...
Page 356 - Over earth and ocean with gentle motion, This pilot is guiding me, Lured by the love of the genii that move In the depths of the purple sea ; Over the rills, and the crags, and the hills, Over the lakes and the plains, Wherever he dream, under mountain or stream, The spirit he loves remains ; And I all the while bask in heaven's blue smile, Whilst he is dissolving in rains.
Page 147 - Flushed with a purple grace He shows his honest face: Now give the hautboys breath; he comes, he comes! Bacchus , ever fair and young , Drinking joys did first ordain : Bacchus...
Page 304 - O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and the trodden weed; Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral! When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, "Beauty is truth, truth beauty," — that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
Page 200 - That, changed through all, and yet in all the same, Great in the earth as in the ethereal frame, Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows...
Page 107 - Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting, Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair ; Listen for dear honour's sake, Goddess of the silver lake, Listen and save! Listen and appear to us, In name of great Oceanus, By the earth-shaking Neptune's mace, And Tethys...
Page 273 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall. That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate through every vein Of all your empire ; that, where Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too.
Page 368 - The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn: Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam Like wrecks of a dissolving dream.