Literary Criticism for StudentsEdward Tompkins McLaughlin H. Holt, 1893 - 236 páginas |
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... Greeks called ἀρχιτεκτονικὴ , which stands , as I think , in the knowledge of a man's self ; in the ethic and politic consideration , with the end of well doing , and not of well knowing only ; even as the saddler's next end is to make ...
... Greeks called ἀρχιτεκτονικὴ , which stands , as I think , in the knowledge of a man's self ; in the ethic and politic consideration , with the end of well doing , and not of well knowing only ; even as the saddler's next end is to make ...
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... Greeks , in his twenty - seventh chapter πeрì vpovs , has judiciously preferred the sublime genius that sometimes errs , to the middling or indifferent one which makes few faults , but seldom or never rises to any excellence . He ...
... Greeks , in his twenty - seventh chapter πeрì vpovs , has judiciously preferred the sublime genius that sometimes errs , to the middling or indifferent one which makes few faults , but seldom or never rises to any excellence . He ...
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... Greek and Latin judges of antiquity ; from the Italians and French , who have succeeded them ; and , indeed , from the general taste and approbation of all ages . Heroic poetry , which they contemn , has ever been esteemed , and ever ...
... Greek and Latin judges of antiquity ; from the Italians and French , who have succeeded them ; and , indeed , from the general taste and approbation of all ages . Heroic poetry , which they contemn , has ever been esteemed , and ever ...
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... Greek ; which yet Sir Philip Sid- ney and the translator of Du Bartas , have unluckily attempted in the English ; though this , I confess , is not so proper an instance of poetic license as it is of variety of idiom in languages ...
... Greek ; which yet Sir Philip Sid- ney and the translator of Du Bartas , have unluckily attempted in the English ; though this , I confess , is not so proper an instance of poetic license as it is of variety of idiom in languages ...
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... Greek tragic poets , he made us read Shakespeare and Milton as lessons : and they were lessons , too , which required most time and trouble to bring up , so as to escape his censure . I learnt from him that poetry , even that of the ...
... Greek tragic poets , he made us read Shakespeare and Milton as lessons : and they were lessons , too , which required most time and trouble to bring up , so as to escape his censure . I learnt from him that poetry , even that of the ...
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Página 144 - These are the forgeries of jealousy: And never, since the middle summer's spring, Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead, By paved fountain or by rushy brook, Or in the beached margent of the sea, To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind, But with thy brawls thou hast disturb'd our sport.
Página 54 - ... the primary laws of our nature: chiefly, as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement.
Página 225 - If all the pens that ever poets held Had fed the feeling of their masters' thoughts, And every sweetness that inspired their hearts, Their minds and muses on admired themes; If all the heavenly quintessence they still From their immortal flowers of poesy, Wherein as in a mirror we perceive The highest reaches of a human wit; If these had made one poem's period...
Página xiv - Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous, and we fools of nature, So horridly to shake our disposition, With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls ? Say, why is this ? wherefore ? what should we do ? [Ghost beckons HAMLET.
Página 144 - I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where ox-lips and the nodding violet grows ; Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine...
Página 96 - It may be safely affirmed that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical composition.
Página 112 - On the stage we see nothing but corporal infirmities and weakness, the impotence of rage; while we read it, we see not Lear, but we are Lear, — we are in his mind, we are sustained by a grandeur which baffles the malice of daughters and storms...
Página 90 - And the sad augurs mock their own presage ; Incertainties now crown themselves assured And peace proclaims olives of endless age. Now with the drops of this most balmy time My love looks fresh, and Death to me subscribes, Since, spite of him, I '11 live in this poor rhyme, "While he insults o'er dull and speechless tribes : And thou in this shalt find thy monument, When tyrants' crests and tombs of brass are spent CVIII.
Página 15 - ... upon themselves care and industry; they did nothing rashly: they obtained first to write well, and then custom made it easy and a habit.
Página 172 - Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again!