Literary Criticism for StudentsEdward Tompkins McLaughlin H. Holt, 1893 - 236 páginas |
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... ON CARDINAL NEWMAN , IN MODERN GUIDES TO ENGLISH THOUGHT IN MATTERS OF FAITH 194 WALTER PATER . FROM THE ESSAY ON STYLE , IN APPRECIATIONS NOTES • • 204 . 211 INTRODUCTION . It is a delicate problem to adjust the iv CONTENTS .
... ON CARDINAL NEWMAN , IN MODERN GUIDES TO ENGLISH THOUGHT IN MATTERS OF FAITH 194 WALTER PATER . FROM THE ESSAY ON STYLE , IN APPRECIATIONS NOTES • • 204 . 211 INTRODUCTION . It is a delicate problem to adjust the iv CONTENTS .
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... style , moods lifted above plain emotions , or plain emotions made great by Wordsworthian simplicity , do not appeal to the majority even of intelligent people . The classics of our poetry and prose are not popular , and where they are ...
... style , moods lifted above plain emotions , or plain emotions made great by Wordsworthian simplicity , do not appeal to the majority even of intelligent people . The classics of our poetry and prose are not popular , and where they are ...
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... style or argument . They present other authors ' exegeses as matter for direct acquisi- tion or as models for application to similar criticism , They annotate texts with elaborate explanations . Their treatment may appear satisfactory ...
... style or argument . They present other authors ' exegeses as matter for direct acquisi- tion or as models for application to similar criticism , They annotate texts with elaborate explanations . Their treatment may appear satisfactory ...
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... style appears at its best ; where he is most happy in fancy , or in cadence . Such topics are interesting and instructive for themselves , and while we consider them we are growing more penetra- tively familiar with the work before us ...
... style appears at its best ; where he is most happy in fancy , or in cadence . Such topics are interesting and instructive for themselves , and while we consider them we are growing more penetra- tively familiar with the work before us ...
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... style is sung by himself to himself alone , in that inner language which we so rarely employ , yet which we surely have employed whenever a poem has flashed from book to brain and soul , and become a mood , a picture , or an inspiration ...
... style is sung by himself to himself alone , in that inner language which we so rarely employ , yet which we surely have employed whenever a poem has flashed from book to brain and soul , and become a mood , a picture , or an inspiration ...
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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!