English Literary Miscellany: Series 1-2Bibliotheca Sacra Company, 1914 - 320 páginas |
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... essential to the con- servation of scholarship and letters . Even in the later eras of the foreign and domestic wars , the monks were busy in their retreats as scholars and guardians of learning . After printing came in , however , all ...
... essential to the con- servation of scholarship and letters . Even in the later eras of the foreign and domestic wars , the monks were busy in their retreats as scholars and guardians of learning . After printing came in , however , all ...
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... essential preparative , there come radical changes in the general moral tone of Eng- lish and American society ; until modern English literature itself takes on a purer cast and addresses itself more directly to the higher sentiments of ...
... essential preparative , there come radical changes in the general moral tone of Eng- lish and American society ; until modern English literature itself takes on a purer cast and addresses itself more directly to the higher sentiments of ...
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... essential to the inner character of poetry as meter is essential to its form . Even in the highest examples of creative verse , so neces- sary is the presence of this element that it makes the dividing line between the two orders of ...
... essential to the inner character of poetry as meter is essential to its form . Even in the highest examples of creative verse , so neces- sary is the presence of this element that it makes the dividing line between the two orders of ...
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... essential— that the critic should be versed in classical poetry ; that he should have a clear and logical head , and that he should dwell upon merits rather than on de- fects . No criticism of any separate English work or author , at ...
... essential— that the critic should be versed in classical poetry ; that he should have a clear and logical head , and that he should dwell upon merits rather than on de- fects . No criticism of any separate English work or author , at ...
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... essential to devote eigh- teen papers of a popular weekly periodical to the discussion of so exalted and difficult a theme , while it is no less to the credit of the general lit- erary public of the time that the criticism was welcomed ...
... essential to devote eigh- teen papers of a popular weekly periodical to the discussion of so exalted and difficult a theme , while it is no less to the credit of the general lit- erary public of the time that the criticism was welcomed ...
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Página 229 - But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.
Página 199 - To one who has been long in city pent, "Tis very sweet to look into the fair And open face of heaven,— to breathe a prayer Full in the smile of the blue firmament. Who is more happy, when, with heart's content, Fatigued he sinks into some pleasant lair Of wavy grass, and reads a debonair And gentle tale of love and languishment? Returning home at evening, with an ear Catching the notes of Philomel, — an eye...
Página 169 - Such as may make thee search thy coffers round, Before thou clothe my fancy in fit sound : Such where the deep transported mind may soar Above the wheeling poles, and at Heaven's door Look in, and see each blissful Deity How he before the thunderous throne doth lie...
Página 309 - From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never ; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
Página 201 - And can I ever bid these joys farewell? Yes, I must pass them for a nobler life, Where I may find the agonies, the strife Of human hearts: for lo!
Página 199 - Why so sad a moan? Life is the rose's hope while yet unblown; The reading of an ever-changing tale; The light uplifting of a maiden's veil; A pigeon tumbling in clear summer air; A laughing school-boy, without grief or care, Riding the springy branches of an elm.
Página 166 - Shakespeare OTHERS abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask — Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge. For the loftiest hill, Who to the stars uncrowns his majesty, Planting his steadfast footsteps in the sea, Making the heaven of heavens his dwelling-place, Spares but the cloudy border of his base To the foil'd searching of mortality; And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, Self-school'd, self-scann'd, self-honour'd, self-secure, Didst tread on earth unguess'd at.
Página 197 - The morning precious: beauty was awake! Why were ye not awake? But ye were dead To things ye knew not of, — were closely wed To musty laws lined out with wretched rule And compass vile: so that ye taught a school Of dolts to smooth, inlay, and clip, and fit, Till, like the certain wands of Jacob's wit, Their verses tallied. Easy was the task: A thousand handicraftsmen wore the mask Of Poesy.
Página 251 - The year's at the spring And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn: God's in his heaven — All's right with the world!
Página 229 - Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; 11.