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... poem ( and , it may be , sharing in the difficulty themselves ) , many earnest and well - meaning students have settled upon the close and thorough study of liter- ature from the standpoint of information and analysis . They teach and ...
... poem ( and , it may be , sharing in the difficulty themselves ) , many earnest and well - meaning students have settled upon the close and thorough study of liter- ature from the standpoint of information and analysis . They teach and ...
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... poem by the rod and line of a technical phraseology , detecting parallels , and baying at the holes of con- jectural originals , finally to emerge from his studies learned , but not literary . For infinite as is the value of its ...
... poem by the rod and line of a technical phraseology , detecting parallels , and baying at the holes of con- jectural originals , finally to emerge from his studies learned , but not literary . For infinite as is the value of its ...
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... poem affords no sense of beauty , we must understand that we have read it amiss . me it seems incomparably better that anyone's ac- cidental moods should be haunted by a subtle or noble thought , or by a line that has soul or music in ...
... poem affords no sense of beauty , we must understand that we have read it amiss . me it seems incomparably better that anyone's ac- cidental moods should be haunted by a subtle or noble thought , or by a line that has soul or music in ...
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... poem has flashed from book to brain and soul , and become a mood , a picture , or an inspiration . Yet the levels of liter- ary pleasure are more usual than the heights , and a considerable part of our interest in books is more ...
... poem has flashed from book to brain and soul , and become a mood , a picture , or an inspiration . Yet the levels of liter- ary pleasure are more usual than the heights , and a considerable part of our interest in books is more ...
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... poem or essay . I have met with so many genuine cases of this puzzled confusion as to what should be observed and remembered , that I have appended to the text a few pages containing a partial list of topics involved in the different ...
... poem or essay . I have met with so many genuine cases of this puzzled confusion as to what should be observed and remembered , that I have appended to the text a few pages containing a partial list of topics involved in the different ...
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Page 144 - I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where ox-lips and the nodding violet grows ; Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine...
Page 54 - ... the primary laws of our nature: chiefly, as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement.
Page 225 - If all the pens that ever poets held Had fed the feeling of their masters' thoughts, And every sweetness that inspired their hearts, Their minds and muses on admired themes; If all the heavenly quintessence they still From their immortal flowers of poesy, Wherein as in a mirror we perceive The highest reaches of a human wit; If these had made one poem's period...
Page 61 - And in my breast the imperfect joys expire; Yet Morning smiles the busy race to cheer, And new-born pleasure brings to happier men; The fields to all their wonted tribute bear; To warm their little loves the birds complain. I fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear And weep the more because I weep in vain.
Page xiv - Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous, and we fools of nature, So horridly to shake our disposition, With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls ? Say, why is this ? wherefore ? what should we do ? [Ghost beckons HAMLET.
Page 78 - The thought suggested itself — to which of us I do not recollect — that a series of poems might be composed of two sorts. In the one, the incidents and agents were to be, in part at least, supernatural ; and the excellence aimed at was to consist in the interesting of the affections by the dramatic truth of such emotions as would naturally accompany such situations, supposing them real.
Page 108 - In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening Phoebus lifts his golden fire: The birds in vain their amorous descant join, Or cheerful fields resume their green attire: These ears alas! for other notes repine; A different object do these eyes require; My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine; And in my breast the imperfect joys expire...
Page 96 - It may be safely affirmed that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical composition.
Page 90 - And the sad augurs mock their own presage ; Incertainties now crown themselves assured And peace proclaims olives of endless age. Now with the drops of this most balmy time My love looks fresh, and Death to me subscribes, Since, spite of him, I '11 live in this poor rhyme, "While he insults o'er dull and speechless tribes : And thou in this shalt find thy monument, When tyrants' crests and tombs of brass are spent CVIII.
Page 145 - These are the forgeries of jealousy: And never, since the middle summer's spring, Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead, By paved fountain or by rushy brook, Or in the beached margent of the sea, To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind, But with thy brawls thou hast disturb'd our sport.