Lectures on English Literature: From Chaucer to TennysonParry & McMillan, 1855 - 2 pages |
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... poet - moralist's truer 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 ...
... poet - moralist's truer 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 ...
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... poet each : Till at the last she set herself to man Like perfect music unto noble words ; And so these twain , upon the skirts of Time , Sit side by side , full summ'd in all their powers , Dispensing harvest ; Self - reverent each ...
... poet each : Till at the last she set herself to man Like perfect music unto noble words ; And so these twain , upon the skirts of Time , Sit side by side , full summ'd in all their powers , Dispensing harvest ; Self - reverent each ...
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... poet's sister , adds the comment , " Were I to say that a poet finds his best advisers among his female friends , it would be speaking from my own experience , and the greatest poet of the age would confirm it by his . But never was any ...
... poet's sister , adds the comment , " Were I to say that a poet finds his best advisers among his female friends , it would be speaking from my own experience , and the greatest poet of the age would confirm it by his . But never was any ...
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... poetic taste , our judgments and feelings for the poets . One meets perpetually with a confident partiality for some poet of the day , or a confident antipathy to another ; and , all the while , such confidence may be entirely unequal ...
... poetic taste , our judgments and feelings for the poets . One meets perpetually with a confident partiality for some poet of the day , or a confident antipathy to another ; and , all the while , such confidence may be entirely unequal ...
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... poets of former centuries . Let him , who is quick to con- demn , or slow to admire , ask whether the fault may not be in himself : -it may be the caprice or the apathy of uncultivated taste : he , and he alone , whose capacity of ...
... poets of former centuries . Let him , who is quick to con- demn , or slow to admire , ask whether the fault may not be in himself : -it may be the caprice or the apathy of uncultivated taste : he , and he alone , whose capacity of ...
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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'].