The Making of English LiteratureD. C. Heath, 1924 - 536 páginas |
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... human life of human experience in the past , of human activity in the present , and of human aspiration for the future . In any historical study of literature , it is this intimate relation between literature and life that calls for ...
... human life of human experience in the past , of human activity in the present , and of human aspiration for the future . In any historical study of literature , it is this intimate relation between literature and life that calls for ...
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... human quality , the fresh lyric impulse , of such verse as this , give it an enduring charm . It does not ally itself with the great literary move- ments of the age , but tends to supplement them by an inspiration drawn from the life ...
... human quality , the fresh lyric impulse , of such verse as this , give it an enduring charm . It does not ally itself with the great literary move- ments of the age , but tends to supplement them by an inspiration drawn from the life ...
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... human personages , and both classes seem to stand upon an even footing . The chief character is Piers the Plow- man . At first he is a simple plowman , type of the humble and laborious poor . Then he is conceived as the faithful and ...
... human personages , and both classes seem to stand upon an even footing . The chief character is Piers the Plow- man . At first he is a simple plowman , type of the humble and laborious poor . Then he is conceived as the faithful and ...
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... human life , its occasional outbursts of fine poetry — all help to make it a really remarkable work . What more than anything else it lacks is a definite and orderly plan - that order , proportion , arrangement , unity , which ...
... human life , its occasional outbursts of fine poetry — all help to make it a really remarkable work . What more than anything else it lacks is a definite and orderly plan - that order , proportion , arrangement , unity , which ...
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... human . Indeed , in this thor- oughly human quality of his best work , he yields to Shake- speare alone . That this estimate of Chaucer's rank is not exaggerated , may be attested by the universal apprecia- tion which he has received ...
... human . Indeed , in this thor- oughly human quality of his best work , he yields to Shake- speare alone . That this estimate of Chaucer's rank is not exaggerated , may be attested by the universal apprecia- tion which he has received ...
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Página 311 - The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends on me; my spirit's bark is driven, Far from the shore, far from the trembling throng Whose sails were never to the tempest given; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven! I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar; Whilst burning through the inmost veil of Heaven, The soul of Adonais, like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are.
Página 316 - Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy ? There was an awful rainbow once in heaven : We know her woof, her texture ; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air and gnomed mine — Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made The tender-person'd Lamia melt into a shade.
Página 150 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised: thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet.
Página 312 - To suffer woes which hope thinks infinite ; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night ; To defy power which seems omnipotent ; To love and bear ; to hope till hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates...
Página 170 - I was confirmed in this opinion ; that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Página 375 - O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence : live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge men's search To vaster issues.
Página 133 - Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on ; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
Página 132 - She should have died hereafter ; There would have been a time for such a word. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death.
Página 130 - No more of that. — I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice...
Página 387 - How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.