Literary and General Lectures and EssaysMacmillan, 1880 - 420 páginas |
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... hearts of men and women not dragged below , but raised above themselves ; and behind all — at least in the nobler and earlier tragedies of Eschylus and Sophocles , RY Y OF before Euripides had introduced the tragedy of 6 [ I. THE STAGE ...
... hearts of men and women not dragged below , but raised above themselves ; and behind all — at least in the nobler and earlier tragedies of Eschylus and Sophocles , RY Y OF before Euripides had introduced the tragedy of 6 [ I. THE STAGE ...
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... heart of the haughty delights to beget A haughty heart . From time to time In children's children recurrent appears The ancestral crime . When the dark hour comes that the gods have decreed And the Fury burns with wrathful fires , A ...
... heart of the haughty delights to beget A haughty heart . From time to time In children's children recurrent appears The ancestral crime . When the dark hour comes that the gods have decreed And the Fury burns with wrathful fires , A ...
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... hearts of Greek republicans , not merely as the founders of their states , not merely as the tutelary deities , many of them , of their country : but as men and women like themselves , only more vast ; with mightier wills , mightier ...
... hearts of Greek republicans , not merely as the founders of their states , not merely as the tutelary deities , many of them , of their country : but as men and women like themselves , only more vast ; with mightier wills , mightier ...
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... heart magnificently till her fate is sealed ; and then after proving her godlike courage , proving the tender- ness of her womanhood by that melodious wail over her own untimely death and the loss of marriage joys , which some of you ...
... heart magnificently till her fate is sealed ; and then after proving her godlike courage , proving the tender- ness of her womanhood by that melodious wail over her own untimely death and the loss of marriage joys , which some of you ...
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... heart and intellect ; and the very essence of Greek tragedy is expressed in the still famous words of Medea : Che resta ? Io . Contrast this with the European drama - especially with the highest form of it — our own Elizabethan . It ...
... heart and intellect ; and the very essence of Greek tragedy is expressed in the still famous words of Medea : Che resta ? Io . Contrast this with the European drama - especially with the highest form of it — our own Elizabethan . It ...
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Página 150 - Thou minds me o' the happy days When my fause Luve was true. Thou'll break my heart, thou bonnie bird That sings beside thy mate ; For sae I sat, and sae I sang, And wist na o' my fate. Aft hae I roved by bonnie Doon To see the woodbine twine, And ilka bird sang o' its love ; And sae did I o
Página 49 - Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are : I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne, and yet must bear, Till death, like sleep, might steal on me, And I might feel in the warm air My cheek grow cold, and hear the sea Breathe o'er my dying brain its last monotony.
Página 114 - Yearning for the large excitement that the coming years would yield, Eager-hearted as a boy when first he leaves his father's field, And at night along the dusky highway near and nearer drawn, Sees in heaven the light of London flaring like a dreary dawn...
Página 252 - But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings ; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realised...
Página 27 - When he appointed the foundations of the earth., then I was by him, as one brought up with him, and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him, rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth, and my delights were with the sons of men.
Página 48 - Nor fame, nor power, nor love, nor leisure : Others I see whom these surround — Smiling they live, and call life pleasure ; To me that cup has been dealt in another measure.
Página 120 - Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, And answer, echoes, answer, dying, dying, dying.
Página 112 - Camelot ; And up and down the people go, Gazing where the lilies blow Round an island there below, The island of Shalott. Willows whiten, aspens quiver, Little breezes dusk and shiver Thro...
Página 129 - See what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury New lighted on a heaven-kissing hill...
Página 313 - Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, nor suffer Thy Holy One to see corruption.