Elements of Literary CriticismHarper & Brothers, 1898 - 288 páginas |
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accent acter adjectives æsthetic anapest appear beautiful become blank-verse called char character charm Cintré color combinations conception dactyls Daniel Deronda Dickens edge of doom effect elements embody emotion English entirely ethical expression external eyes fact feeling felt feminine rhyme force genius George Eliot gives Hamlet harmony heart human nature iambic imagination impression individual interest lack language less literary power literature living look lyric Macbeth manner marked ment method metre metrical Milton mind modern mood moral musical never Nineveh noble passion pathetic fallacy philosophy phrasal power phrase pict poem poet poetic poetry possess present prose rhyme rhythm rhythmical rhythmical units says seems sense shadow Shakespeare Shelley sometimes song sonnet soul sounds spirit stand-point structure style syllable sympathy Thackeray Theodore Watts things thou thought tion tone trochaic trochee true unity verse vidual words writer
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Página 260 - Enow of such as, for their bellies' sake, Creep, and intrude, and climb into the fold ! Of other care they little reckoning make, Than how to scramble at the shearers...
Página 266 - Live! fear no heavier chastisement from me, Thou noteless blot on a remembered name ! But be thyself, and know thyself to be ! And ever at thy season be thou free To spill the venom when thy fangs o'erflow : Remorse and Self-contempt shall cling to thee ; Hot Shame shall burn upon thy secret brow, And like a beaten hound tremble thou shalt — as now.
Página 155 - THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.
Página 231 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore: his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Página 161 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O, no ! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Página 265 - Now thou art dead, as if it were a part Of thee, my Adonais ! I would give All that I am to be as thou now art ! But I am chained to Time, and cannot thence depart...
Página 170 - Could all this be forgotten ? Yes, a schism Nurtured by foppery and barbarism Made great Apollo blush for this his land.
Página 35 - Or, there's Satan! — one might venture Pledge one's soul to him, yet leave Such a flaw in the indenture As he'd miss till, past retrieve, Blasted lay that rose-acacia We're so proud of! Hy, Zy, Hine. . . . 'St, there's Vespers! Plena gratia Ave, Virgo!
Página 107 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Página 107 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, ^ That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.