The Liberal Movement in English LiteratureJ. Murray, 1885 - 240 páginas |
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Página viii
... Poor Law , the extension of the Franchise , the Repeal of the Corn Laws , and the ancipation of the Press ? Is it not rather case that these are only the external mani- festations of a spirit working in the mind of the. viii PREFACE.
... Poor Law , the extension of the Franchise , the Repeal of the Corn Laws , and the ancipation of the Press ? Is it not rather case that these are only the external mani- festations of a spirit working in the mind of the. viii PREFACE.
Página ix
William John Courthope. festations of a spirit working in the mind of the people , which has assumed a particular aspect in politics , but which has produced analogous results in the spheres of religion and art ? So , at least , it has ...
William John Courthope. festations of a spirit working in the mind of the people , which has assumed a particular aspect in politics , but which has produced analogous results in the spheres of religion and art ? So , at least , it has ...
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... spirit of Autho- rity and the spirit of Freedom , which has hitherto preserved for us the continuity of our national life . I have shown how , out of the ruins of Feudal and Catholic sentiment , arose a new code of taste , derived from ...
... spirit of Autho- rity and the spirit of Freedom , which has hitherto preserved for us the continuity of our national life . I have shown how , out of the ruins of Feudal and Catholic sentiment , arose a new code of taste , derived from ...
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... spirit of Liberty and Demo- cracy . The subject is a large one , and I have not been able to treat it otherwise than in outline ; but , now that these essays have been collected , I trust it may appear that I have been animated by the ...
... spirit of Liberty and Demo- cracy . The subject is a large one , and I have not been able to treat it otherwise than in outline ; but , now that these essays have been collected , I trust it may appear that I have been animated by the ...
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... spirit with which Sir Philip Sidney says that he always read the ballad ' Chevy Chase , ' and without the slightest attempt at con- sidering whether the entertainment was quite up to the classical mark ? Or , once more , will Mr. Arnold ...
... spirit with which Sir Philip Sidney says that he always read the ballad ' Chevy Chase , ' and without the slightest attempt at con- sidering whether the entertainment was quite up to the classical mark ? Or , once more , will Mr. Arnold ...
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Página 149 - Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are; I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne and yet must bear...
Página 161 - The remotest discoveries of the chemist, the botanist, or mineralogist, will be as proper objects of the poet's art as any upon which it can be employed, if the time should ever come when these things shall be familiar to us, and the relations under which they are contemplated by the followers of these respective sciences shall be manifestly and palpably material to us as enjoying and suffering beings.
Página 182 - O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and the trodden weed; Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral! When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, "Beauty is truth, truth beauty," — that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
Página 133 - My days are in the yellow leaf ; The flowers and fruits of love are gone ; The worm, the canker, and the grief Are mine alone...
Página 86 - The principal object, then, proposed in these poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as was possible in a selection of language really used by men...
Página 51 - Right, it has been the uniform policy of our Constitution to claim and assert our liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity...
Página 79 - In the one the incidents and agents were to be, in part at least, supernatural ; and the excellence aimed at was to consist in the interesting of the affections by the dramatic truth of such emotions as would naturally accompany such situations, supposing them real.
Página 98 - Perennially — beneath whose sable roof Of boughs, as if for festal purpose decked With unrejoicing berries — ghostly Shapes May meet at noontide ; Fear and trembling Hope, Silence and Foresight ; Death the Skeleton, And Time the Shadow...
Página 168 - Midway the smooth and perilous slope reclined, Save when your own imperious branches swinging, Have made a solemn music of the wind! Where, like a man beloved of God, Through glooms, which never woodman trod...
Página 92 - Suffices me, — her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears. " The dragon's wing, the magic ring, I shall not covet for my dower, If I along that lowly way With sympathetic heart may stray, And with a soul of power.