Literary and General Lectures and EssaysMacmillan, 1880 - 420 páginas |
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... less monstrous . Their monstrosity may have been meant , as it was certainly with the Mexican idols , and probably those of the Semitic races of Syria and Palestine , to symbolise the ferocious pas- sions which they attributed to those ...
... less monstrous . Their monstrosity may have been meant , as it was certainly with the Mexican idols , and probably those of the Semitic races of Syria and Palestine , to symbolise the ferocious pas- sions which they attributed to those ...
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... less clearly , they all felt that they were standing between two worlds ; amid the ruins of an older age ; upon the threshold of a new one . To Byron's mind , the decay and rotten- ness of the old was , perhaps , the most palpable ; to ...
... less clearly , they all felt that they were standing between two worlds ; amid the ruins of an older age ; upon the threshold of a new one . To Byron's mind , the decay and rotten- ness of the old was , perhaps , the most palpable ; to ...
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... less like one of those old Hebrew and Miltonic angels , fallen or unfallen , than Byron is . And as for the satyr ; the less that is said for Shelley , on that point , the better . If Byron sinned more desperately and flagrantly than he ...
... less like one of those old Hebrew and Miltonic angels , fallen or unfallen , than Byron is . And as for the satyr ; the less that is said for Shelley , on that point , the better . If Byron sinned more desperately and flagrantly than he ...
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... less , perhaps , than any known writer who has ever meddled with moral questions . Byron's cry is , I am miserable because law exists ; and I have broken it , broken it so habitually , that now I cannot help breaking it . I have tried ...
... less , perhaps , than any known writer who has ever meddled with moral questions . Byron's cry is , I am miserable because law exists ; and I have broken it , broken it so habitually , that now I cannot help breaking it . I have tried ...
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... less there are excuses for such a notion ; but it is one against which every wise man must set his face like a flint ; and at the risk of being called a " Philister " and a " flunky , " take part boldly with respectability and this ...
... less there are excuses for such a notion ; but it is one against which every wise man must set his face like a flint ; and at the risk of being called a " Philister " and a " flunky , " take part boldly with respectability and this ...
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Literary and General Lectures and Essays: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition Charles Kingsley Vista previa limitada - 2008 |
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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.