Essays Chiefly on Poetry, Volumen1Macmillan and Company, 1887 |
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... Faery Queen was one which dedicated itself pre - eminently to the exaltation of humanity . His aim was " to strengthen man by his own mind 4 CHARACTERISTICS OF SPENSER'S POETRY I.
... Faery Queen was one which dedicated itself pre - eminently to the exaltation of humanity . His aim was " to strengthen man by his own mind 4 CHARACTERISTICS OF SPENSER'S POETRY I.
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... Faery Queen for a proof that Spenser could illustrate human nature as well as allegorise the Passions ; for I CHARACTERISTICS OF SPENSER'S POETRY 7.
... Faery Queen for a proof that Spenser could illustrate human nature as well as allegorise the Passions ; for I CHARACTERISTICS OF SPENSER'S POETRY 7.
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... Faery Queen had been finished , it would not have wholly proved that work . It contains much that belongs to such a theme : it includes much that is alien to it and — a matter yet more to be regretted— it misses much that is essential ...
... Faery Queen had been finished , it would not have wholly proved that work . It contains much that belongs to such a theme : it includes much that is alien to it and — a matter yet more to be regretted— it misses much that is essential ...
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... Faery Queen's magnificent aim- that of setting forth those great Virtues which are in fact so many great Truths embodied in corresponding affections would have thus been harmoniously real- ised . That beauty , which ever haunted ...
... Faery Queen's magnificent aim- that of setting forth those great Virtues which are in fact so many great Truths embodied in corresponding affections would have thus been harmoniously real- ised . That beauty , which ever haunted ...
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... Faery Queen so richly abounds . A charm- ing example of this is the story of the gentle squire who loves Belphoebe . He saves Amoret ; and his compassion for the victim he has rescued half - dead from the " salvage man " makes him for a ...
... Faery Queen so richly abounds . A charm- ing example of this is the story of the gentle squire who loves Belphoebe . He saves Amoret ; and his compassion for the victim he has rescued half - dead from the " salvage man " makes him for a ...
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Términos y frases comunes
admirable allegory beauty belongs Belphoebe blended Book breath Britomart canto character characteristic chiefly cloud delight delineated descriptive divine doth drama dream Duke of Bourbon earth Elena face faculty Faery Queen fair faith fear Flanders flowers genius Ghent gifts glory gods goodly Gothic architecture grace grave happy harmony hath heart heaven higher highest human ideal illustrated imagination impassioned instinct intellect knight Laodamia less Liberty light live look Lucretius man's metre mind moral mountain Nature Nature's never Ode to Duty once pass passages passion pathos Philip van Artevelde poem poet poet's poetic political reader regarded remarkable scene seems sense song sonnet sorrow soul Spenser Spenser's poetry spirit stanza sweet sympathy tender thee theme things thou thought Tintern Abbey trees true truth virtue vision voice William Rowan Hamilton wisdom Wordsworth's poetry Wordsworthian youth
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Página 151 - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky.
Página 254 - Thou little Child, yet glorious in the might Of heaven-born freedom on thy being's height, Why with such earnest pains dost thou provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke, Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife? Full soon thy Soul shall have her earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life!
Página 130 - As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the bald top of an eminence; Wonder to all who do the same espy, By what means it could thither come, and whence; So that it seems a thing endued with sense: Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself...
Página 254 - O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive!
Página 261 - I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell; To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intensely ; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for from within were heard Murmurings, whereby the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea.
Página 143 - tis surely blind. But welcome fortitude, and patient cheer, And frequent sights of what is to be borne ! Such sights, or worse, as are before me here. — Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.
Página 253 - Heaven lies about us in our infancy. Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy; But he beholds the light and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy. The youth who daily farther from the East Must travel, still is Nature's priest, And, by the vision splendid, Is on his way attended. At length the man perceives it die away And fade into the light of common day.
Página 157 - Wisdom and spirit of the universe ! Thou soul that art the eternity of thought, That givest to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion, not in vain By day or star-light thus from my first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul...
Página 191 - It is not to be thought of that the flood Of British freedom, which, to the open sea ..:"- Of the world's praise, from dark antiquity Hath flowed, " with pomp of waters unwithstood...
Página 130 - I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous Boy, The sleepless Soul that perished in his pride; Of Him who walked in glory and in joy Following his plough, along the mountain-side : By our own spirits are we deified : We poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.