Lectures on English Literature: From Chaucer to TennysonParry & McMillan, 1855 - 2 pages |
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... less to his feelings ; but , in all this , he is in more danger of bringing his faculties separately into action : he is more apt to be misled by our imperfect systems of metaphysics , which give us none but the most meagre theories of ...
... less to his feelings ; but , in all this , he is in more danger of bringing his faculties separately into action : he is more apt to be misled by our imperfect systems of metaphysics , which give us none but the most meagre theories of ...
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... less of wilfulness , and to a truer power of sympathy ; and the woman's spirit shall lose none of its earnest , confiding apprehensiveness in gaining more of reasoning and reflection ; and so , by reciprocal influences , that vicious ...
... less of wilfulness , and to a truer power of sympathy ; and the woman's spirit shall lose none of its earnest , confiding apprehensiveness in gaining more of reasoning and reflection ; and so , by reciprocal influences , that vicious ...
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... less docile intellects , into the deep places of the souls of mighty poets : his genius as a critic rose to its majestic height , not only by its inborn manly strength , but because , with woman - like faith , it first bowed beneath the ...
... less docile intellects , into the deep places of the souls of mighty poets : his genius as a critic rose to its majestic height , not only by its inborn manly strength , but because , with woman - like faith , it first bowed beneath the ...
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... less effective weapon than a foreign literature ; and the more remote that is , the more effective it is for osten- tation . But if there be a better purpose than feeding vanity , then , for all the best and most salutary influences ...
... less effective weapon than a foreign literature ; and the more remote that is , the more effective it is for osten- tation . But if there be a better purpose than feeding vanity , then , for all the best and most salutary influences ...
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... such confidence may be entirely unequal to that which is the simplest test - the capacity to comprehend and enjoy the poetry of other ages . The merits of the living poets must be more or less in dispute ; and 60 LECTURE SECOND .
... such confidence may be entirely unequal to that which is the simplest test - the capacity to comprehend and enjoy the poetry of other ages . The merits of the living poets must be more or less in dispute ; and 60 LECTURE SECOND .
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Page 314 - 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.
Page 305 - Paradise, and groves Elysian, Fortunate Fields — like those of old Sought in the Atlantic Main — why should they be A history only of departed things, Or a mere fiction of what never was ? For the discerning intellect of Man, When wedded to this goodly universe In love and holy passion, shall find these A simple produce of the common day.
Page 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.
Page 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...
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 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 305 - I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell; To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intensely ; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for from within were heard Murmurings, whereby the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea.
Page 237 - She, who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules; Charms by accepting, by submitting sways, Yet has her humour most, when she obeys...
Page 293 - 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...
Page 358 - PENSION [an allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country'].