Lectures on LiteratureColumbia University Press, 1911 - 404 psl. |
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... ancient courts of the men of old . " But this lordly approach is not imperative , for Literature , lofty as it may be at times , is not remote and austere . At its best it is friendly and intimate . It is not for holidays only and ...
... ancient courts of the men of old . " But this lordly approach is not imperative , for Literature , lofty as it may be at times , is not remote and austere . At its best it is friendly and intimate . It is not for holidays only and ...
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... ancient Rome ; but Shakspere himself was an Elizabethan Englishman , and these tragic masterpieces of his were possible only in the sceptered isle set in the silver sea in the spacious days of the Virgin Queen . Racine borrowed his ...
... ancient Rome ; but Shakspere himself was an Elizabethan Englishman , and these tragic masterpieces of his were possible only in the sceptered isle set in the silver sea in the spacious days of the Virgin Queen . Racine borrowed his ...
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... ancient bards of Brittany have joined hands with the tribe of Montaigne and Brantôme . " It was Comte who declared that " humanity is always made up of more dead than living . " There is significance also in the fact that the most of ...
... ancient bards of Brittany have joined hands with the tribe of Montaigne and Brantôme . " It was Comte who declared that " humanity is always made up of more dead than living . " There is significance also in the fact that the most of ...
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... ancients was indeed a new birth for the arts , and for Literature not the least . Man came into his own once again , and he was in haste to express himself . He drew a long breath and felt at last free to live . As was inevitable , he ...
... ancients was indeed a new birth for the arts , and for Literature not the least . Man came into his own once again , and he was in haste to express himself . He drew a long breath and felt at last free to live . As was inevitable , he ...
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... ancient or toward the modern , and we are by instinct either romanticists or realists , whether we are conscious of this prejudice or not . Our opinions may be as the leaves that change color with the revolving seasons ; but our ...
... ancient or toward the modern , and we are by instinct either romanticists or realists , whether we are conscious of this prejudice or not . Our opinions may be as the leaves that change color with the revolving seasons ; but our ...
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294 psl. - The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story ; The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
144 psl. - WHY dois your brand sae drap wi bluid, Edward, Edward, Why dois your brand sae drap wi bluid, And why sae sad gang yee O ? " " OI hae killed my hauke sae guid, Mither, mither, OI hae killed my hauke sae guid, And I had nae mair bot hee O." 2. " Your haukis bluid was nevir sae reid, Edward, Edward, Your haukis bluid was nevir sae reid, My deir son I tell thee O.
166 psl. - His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!
142 psl. - I, according to my copy, have done set it in print, to the intent that noble men may see and learn the noble acts of chivalry, the gentle and virtuous deeds, that some knights used in those days, by which they came to honour, and how they that were vicious were punished and oft put to shame and rebuke...
181 psl. - ... exquisitely noble ; that the language is often very sounding, and that the whole is written with a true poetical spirit. If this song had been written in the Gothic manner, which is the delight of all our little wits, whether writers or readers, it would not have hit the taste of so many ages, and have pleased the readers of all ranks and conditions. I shall only beg pardon for such a profusion of Latin quotations; which I should not have made use of, but that I feared my own judgment would have...
361 psl. - Goethe's own words, when he says that the critic's first and foremost duty is to make plain to himself "what the poet's aim really and truly was, how the task he had to do stood before his eye, and how far, with such materials as were afforded him, he has fulfilled it.
120 psl. - ... traversed throughout in mind and spirit the immeasurable universe; whence he returns a conqueror to tell us what can, what cannot come into being; in short on what principle each thing has its powers defined, its deepset boundary mark.
144 psl. - Your steid was auld, and ye hae gat mair, Edward, Edward, Your steid was auld, and ye hae gat mair, Sum other dule * ye drie * O.
181 psl. - I shall here, according to my promise, be more particular, and show that the sentiments in that ballad are extremely natural and poetical, and full of the majestic simplicity which we admire in the greatest of the ancient poets; for which reason I shall quote several passages of it, in which the thought is altogether the same with what we meet in several passages of the JEneid...
364 psl. - Poets do not really write epics, pastorals, lyrics, however much they may be deceived by these false abstractions; they express themselves, and this expression is their only form. There are not, therefore, only three, or ten, or a hundred literary kinds; there are as many kinds as there are individual poets.