English Literary Miscellany: Series 1-2Bibliotheca Sacra Company, 1914 - 320 páginas |
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... honor of doing pioneer work in this new departure and opening the way for all later effort . Chief among these are Sidney , Puttenham , and Webbe , authors , respectively , of " Apologie for Poetrie , " " Arte of English Poesie , " and ...
... honor of doing pioneer work in this new departure and opening the way for all later effort . Chief among these are Sidney , Puttenham , and Webbe , authors , respectively , of " Apologie for Poetrie , " " Arte of English Poesie , " and ...
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... honored " this side idolatry . " His comments as a critic on style are well worth heeding to - day , that for a man to write well there are three neces- sities " to read the best authors , observe the best speakers , and exercise much ...
... honored " this side idolatry . " His comments as a critic on style are well worth heeding to - day , that for a man to write well there are three neces- sities " to read the best authors , observe the best speakers , and exercise much ...
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... honor of their time . Nowhere more than in these pages does he show himself to be the master of the literary history of England , even though , at times , he seems to interpret that history from the standpoint of personal prejudice ...
... honor of their time . Nowhere more than in these pages does he show himself to be the master of the literary history of England , even though , at times , he seems to interpret that history from the standpoint of personal prejudice ...
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... honor of the laureateship . As has been said , " The cus- tom of crowning poets is as ancient as poetry it- self , " to which it may be added that the custom of honoring authors in prose or verse , or those distinguished in general ...
... honor of the laureateship . As has been said , " The cus- tom of crowning poets is as ancient as poetry it- self , " to which it may be added that the custom of honoring authors in prose or verse , or those distinguished in general ...
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... honor was a tribute to him both as a poet and an his- torian , and he became thereby a citizen of Rome . At no period since that date has the honor been more worthily bestowed nor has it ever been at- tended with more fitting and ...
... honor was a tribute to him both as a poet and an his- torian , and he became thereby a citizen of Rome . At no period since that date has the honor been more worthily bestowed nor has it ever been at- tended with more fitting and ...
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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.