Introduction to American Literature: Or, The Origin and Development of the English Language, with Gems of Poetry |
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... poets : its maturity , or the age of philosophers : and its decline , or the age of critics . In the poetical age , commentators were very few , but might have , in some respects , been useful . In its philosophical , their assistance ...
... poets : its maturity , or the age of philosophers : and its decline , or the age of critics . In the poetical age , commentators were very few , but might have , in some respects , been useful . In its philosophical , their assistance ...
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... poetic genius still emulates her in the production of beauty . As art and science advance to perfection , genius abandons its own instincts , and is guided by caprice . Taste is formed , as well as cultivated , from the examination of ...
... poetic genius still emulates her in the production of beauty . As art and science advance to perfection , genius abandons its own instincts , and is guided by caprice . Taste is formed , as well as cultivated , from the examination of ...
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... poets who have sung of the elysian fields , where all was beauty and life , only developed those germs of beauty which do not unfold themselves in other hearts and in the progress of civilization a realm is at last reached where the ...
... poets who have sung of the elysian fields , where all was beauty and life , only developed those germs of beauty which do not unfold themselves in other hearts and in the progress of civilization a realm is at last reached where the ...
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... Poems written in Dano - Saxon have been of course ascribed to the Dano - Saxon period ; and Beowulf , and the poems of ... poem which has nothing in language or style to distinguish it from the admitted productions of Alfred . Dismissing ...
... Poems written in Dano - Saxon have been of course ascribed to the Dano - Saxon period ; and Beowulf , and the poems of ... poem which has nothing in language or style to distinguish it from the admitted productions of Alfred . Dismissing ...
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... poem is valuable for the light that it throws upon the history of the language , as well as for its poetical merits . It vindicates the character of the Saxon language against the charges that it is jejune , and important only to the ...
... poem is valuable for the light that it throws upon the history of the language , as well as for its poetical merits . It vindicates the character of the Saxon language against the charges that it is jejune , and important only to the ...
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Page 354 - Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook...
Page 355 - Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That owned the virtuous ring and glass, And of the wond'rous horse of brass, On which the Tartar king did ride; And if aught else, great bards beside, In sage and solemn tunes have sung, Of tourneys and of trophies hung; Of forests, and enchantments drear, Where more is meant than meets the ear.
Page 355 - And when the sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves And shadows brown that Sylvan loves, Of pine or monumental oak, Where the rude axe, with heaved stroke, Was never heard the nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallowed haunt.
Page 357 - Hence, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born In Stygian cave forlorn 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy ! Find out some uncouth cell, Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night-raven sings ; There, under ebon shades and low-browed rocks, As ragged as thy locks, In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell.
Page 272 - How does my royal lord ? How fares your majesty ? Lear. You do me wrong to take me out o' the grave : Thou art a soul in bliss ; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.
Page 353 - There, held in holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble, till With a sad leaden downward cast Thou fix them on the earth as fast. And join with thee calm Peace and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet, And hears the Muses in a ring Aye round about Jove's altar sing...
Page 354 - Swinging slow with sullen roar ; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom, Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm, To bless the doors from nightly harm.
Page 352 - He met her, and in secret shades Of woody Ida's inmost grove, While yet there was no fear of Jove. 30 Come, pensive Nun, devout and pure, Sober, steadfast, and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain Flowing with majestic train, And sable stole of cypress lawn, 35 Over thy decent shoulders drawn.
Page 264 - Who, in their greatest cost, Seek nothing but commending: And if they make reply, Then give them all the lie. Tell zeal it wants devotion; Tell love it is but lust; Tell time it is but motion; Tell flesh it is but dust: And wish them not reply, For thou must give the lie.
Page 289 - But you like none, none you, for constant heart. LIV O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem By that sweet ornament which truth doth give! The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live. The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye As the perfumed tincture of the roses, Hang on such thorns and play as wantonly When summer's breath their masked buds discloses; But, for their virtue only is their show, They live unwoo'd and unrespected fade, Die to themselves....