Literary CriticismHoughton Mifflin, 1876 - 577 páginas |
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... prose writers , mentions pointedly in his Anabasis , that the Ten Thousand , when retreating through snowy mountains , and in circumstances very like our General Elphinstone's retreat from Cabul , came upon a considerable stock of ...
... prose writers , mentions pointedly in his Anabasis , that the Ten Thousand , when retreating through snowy mountains , and in circumstances very like our General Elphinstone's retreat from Cabul , came upon a considerable stock of ...
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... prose writer , would them ing alive the poetic m degree not so reasonably interrupted succession above seventy , in the year 1- cluding year of the men century , that is , the them of its latter half by the which threw back the ...
... prose writer , would them ing alive the poetic m degree not so reasonably interrupted succession above seventy , in the year 1- cluding year of the men century , that is , the them of its latter half by the which threw back the ...
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... prose romance , called Mort d'Arthur , was composed , we believe , about the year 1480. This will therefore be three hundred and sixty years old . Now , both Lord Berners and the Mort d'Arthur , are as intelligible as this morning's ...
... prose romance , called Mort d'Arthur , was composed , we believe , about the year 1480. This will therefore be three hundred and sixty years old . Now , both Lord Berners and the Mort d'Arthur , are as intelligible as this morning's ...
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... prose is an object of legitimate astonishment . Whatever is bad in our own ideal of prose style , what- ever is repulsive in our own practice , we see there carried to the most outrageous excess . Herod is out- heroded , Sternhold is ...
... prose is an object of legitimate astonishment . Whatever is bad in our own ideal of prose style , what- ever is repulsive in our own practice , we see there carried to the most outrageous excess . Herod is out- heroded , Sternhold is ...
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... prose ; but we must not linger . It is enough to say , that it offers the counterpole to the French style . Our own popular style , and ( what is worse ) the tendency of our own , is to the German extreme . For those who read German ...
... prose ; but we must not linger . It is enough to say , that it offers the counterpole to the French style . Our own popular style , and ( what is worse ) the tendency of our own , is to the German extreme . For those who read German ...
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Página 527 - The cock is crowing, The stream is flowing, The small birds twitter, The lake doth glitter, The green field sleeps in the sun ; The oldest and youngest Are at work with the strongest ; The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising ; There are forty feeding like one...
Página 506 - The pleasure-house is dust : behind, before, This is no common waste, no common gloom ; But Nature, in due course of time, once more Shall here put on her beauty and her bloom. "She leaves these objects to a slow decay, That what we are, and have been, may be known ; But at the coming of the milder day These monuments shall all be overgrown.
Página 421 - When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not : in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks. Their moans The vales redoubled to the hills and they To heaven.
Página 459 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st ; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant : what in me is dark, Illumine ; what is low, raise and support ; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.
Página 538 - unsexed'; Macbeth has forgot that he was born of woman; both are conformed to the image of devils; and the world of devils is suddenly revealed. But how shall this be conveyed and made palpable? In order that a new world may step in, this world must for a time disappear. The...
Página 536 - ... exhibits human nature in its most abject and humiliating attitude. Such an attitude would little suit the purposes of the poet. What then must he do? He must throw the interest on the murderer. Our sympathy must be with him (of course I mean a sympathy of comprehension, a sympathy by which we enter into his feelings, and are made to understand them — not a sympathy of pity or approbation).
Página 533 - FROM my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Macbeth : it was this : the knocking at the gate, which succeeds to the murder of Duncan, produced to my feelings an effect for which I never could account: the effect was — that it reflected back upon the...
Página 539 - The murderers and the murder must be insulated - cut off by an immeasurable gulf from the ordinary tide and succession of human affairs - locked up and sequestered in some deep recess : we must be made sensible that the world of ordinary life is suddenly arrested - laid asleep tranced - racked into a dread armistice...
Página 537 - Duncan," and adequately to expound " the deep damnation of his taking off," this was to be expressed with peculiar energy. We were to be made to feel that the human nature...
Página 351 - British monarchy, not more limited than fenced by the orders of the state, shall, like the proud Keep of Windsor, rising in the majesty of proportion, and girt with the double belt of its kindred and coeval towers...