Literary Criticism for StudentsEdward Tompkins McLaughlin H. Holt, 1893 - 236 páginas |
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... distinction . Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty , could have little hope of greatness ; for great things cannot have escaped former observa- tion . Their attempts were always analytic ; they broke every image into fragments ...
... distinction . Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty , could have little hope of greatness ; for great things cannot have escaped former observa- tion . Their attempts were always analytic ; they broke every image into fragments ...
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... distinction , far less for the sake of these particular poems than from the general im- portance of the subject . The subject is indeed im- portant ! For the human mind is capable of being excited without the application of gross and ...
... distinction , far less for the sake of these particular poems than from the general im- portance of the subject . The subject is indeed im- portant ! For the human mind is capable of being excited without the application of gross and ...
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... distinction which overturns what has just been said on the strict affinity of metrical language with that of prose , and paves the way for other artificial distinctions which the I here use the word " Poetry " ( though against my own ...
... distinction which overturns what has just been said on the strict affinity of metrical language with that of prose , and paves the way for other artificial distinctions which the I here use the word " Poetry " ( though against my own ...
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... distinction would we have ? Whence is it to come ? And where is it to exist ? Not , surely , where the poet speaks through the mouths of his characters : it cannot be necessary here , either for elevation of style , or any of its ...
... distinction would we have ? Whence is it to come ? And where is it to exist ? Not , surely , where the poet speaks through the mouths of his characters : it cannot be necessary here , either for elevation of style , or any of its ...
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... distinction ; while it is the privilege of the phi- losopher to preserve himself constantly aware that distinction is not division . In order to obtain ade- quate notions of any truth , we must intellectually separate its ...
... distinction ; while it is the privilege of the phi- losopher to preserve himself constantly aware that distinction is not division . In order to obtain ade- quate notions of any truth , we must intellectually separate its ...
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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!