Literary and General Lectures and EssaysMacmillan, 1880 - 420 páginas |
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... even of clouds . It may rise to the level of Don Quixote , or sink to that of Sancho Panza ; for it is always the incarnation of such wisdom , heavenly or earthly , as the poet wishes the people to 8 [ L. THE STAGE AS IT WAS ONCE .
... even of clouds . It may rise to the level of Don Quixote , or sink to that of Sancho Panza ; for it is always the incarnation of such wisdom , heavenly or earthly , as the poet wishes the people to 8 [ L. THE STAGE AS IT WAS ONCE .
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Charles Kingsley. or earthly , as the poet wishes the people to bring to bear on the subject - matter . But let the poets themselves , rather than me , speak awhile . Allow me to give you a few specimens of these choruses — the first as ...
Charles Kingsley. or earthly , as the poet wishes the people to bring to bear on the subject - matter . But let the poets themselves , rather than me , speak awhile . Allow me to give you a few specimens of these choruses — the first as ...
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... wish to follow him down into the fearful sins which he defended with the small powers of reasoning - and they were peculiarly small - which he possessed . Let any one who wishes to satisfy himself of the real difference between Byron's ...
... wish to follow him down into the fearful sins which he defended with the small powers of reasoning - and they were peculiarly small - which he possessed . Let any one who wishes to satisfy himself of the real difference between Byron's ...
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... wish to rob them of such a hope , even if it interfered with his favourite " scheme of unfulfilled prophecy . " So men have felt Shelley's spell a wondrous one - perhaps , they think , a life - giving regenerative one . And yet what ...
... wish to rob them of such a hope , even if it interfered with his favourite " scheme of unfulfilled prophecy . " So men have felt Shelley's spell a wondrous one - perhaps , they think , a life - giving regenerative one . And yet what ...
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Charles Kingsley. it the power of seeing - say rather , the wish to see . But it is because , in spite of all our self - glorifying pæans , our taste has become worse and not better , that Shelley , the man who conceitedly despises and ...
Charles Kingsley. it the power of seeing - say rather , the wish to see . But it is because , in spite of all our self - glorifying pæans , our taste has become worse and not better , that Shelley , the man who conceitedly despises and ...
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Términos y frases comunes
æsthetic Alcibiades Alexander Pope angels artistic Athens beauty become believe boughs Burns Burns's Byron CALIFORNIA LIBRARY century CHARLES KINGSLEY Christian Church common confess creed Crown 8vo divine doubt earnest earth England English eternal evil expression eyes facts faculty faith fancy feel Fraser's Magazine FREDERICK DENISON MAURICE genius Gothic Gothic architecture grace Greek heart heaven human laws least legends less living look Manichean means melody merely mind moral mystic nation nature never noble passion perfect perhaps Phaethon poems poet poetasters poetic poetry prose Protagoras Protestantism reverence Robert Nicoll Roman seems sense Shakespeare Shelley Shelley's Socrates song Sophocles sorrow soul speak spirit of truth style surely talk taste teaching tell Templeton things thou thought trees true UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA utter utterly Vaughan verse whatsoever whole woman words worship write young Zeus
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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.