Specimens of Modern English Literary CriticismWilliam Tenney Brewster Macmillan, 1907 - 379 páginas |
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... relation of criti- cism to biography . Akin to this are facts of personality , of temperament and the like . Facts of vogue are a source of material not to be neglected ; indeed , these facts , like those of the life of the author , may ...
... relation of criti- cism to biography . Akin to this are facts of personality , of temperament and the like . Facts of vogue are a source of material not to be neglected ; indeed , these facts , like those of the life of the author , may ...
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... relation of criticism to argumentation naturally leads to the important question of the proof of which critical opinion is sus- ceptible . Clearly this is a very vital question , and no one should shirk it ; for the reason that people ...
... relation of criticism to argumentation naturally leads to the important question of the proof of which critical opinion is sus- ceptible . Clearly this is a very vital question , and no one should shirk it ; for the reason that people ...
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... . They have to do with that world of financial magic in which wealth may be made out of paper , and all ordinary There is , however , relations of cause and effect 4 LESLIE STEPHEN THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY: Mr Robert Montgomery's Poems.
... . They have to do with that world of financial magic in which wealth may be made out of paper , and all ordinary There is , however , relations of cause and effect 4 LESLIE STEPHEN THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY: Mr Robert Montgomery's Poems.
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William Tenney Brewster. There is , however , relations of cause and effect are suspended . no real mystery about the halfpence . The small coins which do not form part of the legal tender may be considered primarily as counters . A ...
William Tenney Brewster. There is , however , relations of cause and effect are suspended . no real mystery about the halfpence . The small coins which do not form part of the legal tender may be considered primarily as counters . A ...
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... Relations to Literature . All these papers are partly critical . Several papers of the same sort that appeared in magazines have not been reprinted in the Collective British Edition . III . OTHER BIOGRAPHIC SKETCHES : Shakespeare ( in ...
... Relations to Literature . All these papers are partly critical . Several papers of the same sort that appeared in magazines have not been reprinted in the Collective British Edition . III . OTHER BIOGRAPHIC SKETCHES : Shakespeare ( in ...
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admiration alliteration Arnold artistic beauty Besant better called Canterbury Tales character Chaucer classic Coleridge Cowley Dickens Dickens's distinction Dryden Edgar Poe effect English essay estimate example expression eyes fact faculty fancy feeling fiction genius George Eliot give human idea imagination impression intellectual interest John Ruskin judgment kind language less literary criticism literature living manner matter means metaphysical poets Milton mind modern moral nature never Nevermore novel object opinion Ovid passion peculiar perfect perhaps Petrarch philosophical Pickwick Papers pleasure Poe's poem poet poetic poetry principle prose question Quincey Quincey's reader reason regard Robert Montgomery Ruskin seems sense Shakespeare sort soul sound speak spirit stanza story style Suspiria Swift taste things thou thought tion true truth Ulalume Venus and Adonis verse Virgil whole words Wordsworth writing
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Página 267 - Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
Página 266 - Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly, Though its answer little meaning — little relevancy bore; For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door — Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such name as
Página 300 - ... reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities : of sameness, with difference; of the general, with the concrete; the idea, with the image; the individual, with the representative; the sense of novelty and freshness, with old and familiar objects; a more than usual state of emotion, with more than usual order...
Página 289 - Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Página 145 - TO HELEN. Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome.
Página 59 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And, though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th
Página 146 - Banners yellow, glorious, golden, On its roof did float and flow (This — all this — was in the olden Time long ago), And every gentle air that dallied, In that sweet day, Along the ramparts plumed and pallid, A winged odor went away.
Página 303 - Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come, Can yet the lease of my true love control, Supposed as forfeit to a confined doom. The mortal moon hath her eclipse endured And the sad augurs mock their own presage; Incertainties now crown themselves assured And peace proclaims olives of endless age.
Página 290 - Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Página 285 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...