Questions on Readings in English Literature: A Student's Manual

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Página 103 - Trochee trips from long to short ; From long to long in solemn sort Slow spondee stalks ; strong foot ! yet ill able Ever to come up with Dactyl trisyllable. Iambics march from short to long ; — With a leap and a bound the swift Anapaests throng ; One syllable long, with one short...
Página 57 - But it would be unjust not to repeat that this defect is only occasional. From a careful re-perusal of the two volumes of poems, I doubt whether the objectionable passages would amount in the whole to one hundred lines ; not the eighth part of the number of pages. In THE EXCURSION the feeling of incongruity...
Página 97 - If a chap can't compose an epic poem while he's weaving tapestry, he had better shut up, he'll never do any good at all.
Página 35 - ... that the attention is recalled and arrested by those claps that stop short without echo and leave us listening. There are no such vistas and avenues of verse as his. In reading the " Paradise Lost" one has a feeling of spaciousness such as no other poet gives.
Página 21 - ... climbing possible. One of these homely qualities is continuity of character, and it escapes present applause because it tells chiefly, in the long run, in results. With his usual tact, Shakespeare has brought in such a character as a contrast and foil to Hamlet. Horatio is the only complete man in the play, — solid, well-knit, and true; a noble, quiet nature, with that highest of all qualities, judgment; always sane and prompt...
Página 91 - The peculiarity of this poem is that different phases of passion in one person take the place of different characters.
Página 59 - Any strain of enthusiastic and exalted lyrical verse, directed to a fixed purpose, and dealing progressively with one dignified theme.
Página 104 - Shelley: namely, that his marvellous metrical invention of the anapaestic heptameter was almost exactly reproducible in a language to which all variations and combinations of anapaestic, iambic, or trochaic metre are as natural and pliable as all dactylic and spondaic forms of verse are unnatural and abhorrent.
Página 38 - I do not doubt but England is at present as polite a nation as any in the world; but any man who thinks can easily see, that the affectation of being \ gay and in fashion has very near eaten up our good sense and our religion.
Página 55 - But this world of Scotch drink, Scotch religion, and Scotch manners is against a poet, not for him, when it is not a partial countryman who reads him; for in itself it is not a beautiful world, and no one can deny that it is of advantage to a poet to deal with a beautiful world. Burns's world of Scotch drink, Scotch religion, and Scotch manners, is often a harsh, a sordid, a repulsive world ; even the world of his Cotter's Saturday Night is not a beautiful world.

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