Lectures on the English PoetsJ. Wiley, 1849 - 255 σελίδες |
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... character he impresses upon them . His mind lends its own power to the objects which it contemplates , instead of borrowing it from them . He takes advantage even of the nakedness and dreary vacuity of his subject . His imagination 20 ...
... character he impresses upon them . His mind lends its own power to the objects which it contemplates , instead of borrowing it from them . He takes advantage even of the nakedness and dreary vacuity of his subject . His imagination 20 ...
Σελίδα 24
... character , and the tone of his writings . Yet it would be too much to attribute the one to the other as cause and effect for Spenser , whose poetical temperament was as effemi- nate as Chaucer's was stern and masculine , was equally ...
... character , and the tone of his writings . Yet it would be too much to attribute the one to the other as cause and effect for Spenser , whose poetical temperament was as effemi- nate as Chaucer's was stern and masculine , was equally ...
Σελίδα 26
... the natu- ral impulses and habitual prejudices of the characters he has to represent . There is an inveteracy of purpose , a sincerity of 1 1 feeling , which never relaxes or grows vapid , in 26 [ LECTURE II . ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER .
... the natu- ral impulses and habitual prejudices of the characters he has to represent . There is an inveteracy of purpose , a sincerity of 1 1 feeling , which never relaxes or grows vapid , in 26 [ LECTURE II . ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER .
Σελίδα 27
... character belonging to them , and produce the effect of sculpture on the mind . Chaucer had an equal eye for truth of nature and dis- crimination of character ; and his interest in what he saw gave new distinctness and force to his ...
... character belonging to them , and produce the effect of sculpture on the mind . Chaucer had an equal eye for truth of nature and dis- crimination of character ; and his interest in what he saw gave new distinctness and force to his ...
Σελίδα 30
... characters of men never change , though manners , opinions , and institutions may , ) to know what has become of this character of the Sompnoure in the present day ; whether or not it has any technical representative in existing ...
... characters of men never change , though manners , opinions , and institutions may , ) to know what has become of this character of the Sompnoure in the present day ; whether or not it has any technical representative in existing ...
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admiration Æneid affectation appear artificial Ballads beauty Beggar's Opera better blank verse Boccaccio character Chatterton Chaucer circumstances common critics death delight describes Edinburgh Reviewers epic poetry equal excellence Faery Queen fame fancy feeling flowers forms genius give Gonne grace hand hates hath heart Heaven Herbert Croft hire human idea images imagination interest Knight's Tale labour language less lines living look Lord Byron Lordship Lycidas Lyrical Ballads manners Milton mind moral Muse nature never o'er objects painted Paradise Lost passion pathos persons pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope praise prose reader rhyme round scene sense sentiment Shakspeare sing song soul sound Spenser spirit story style sublime sweet thee things thou thought tion trees truth verse wind wings words Wordsworth writer wyllowe-tree youth
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Σελίδα 120 - The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of heaven, O how canst thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven ! X.
Σελίδα 183 - But Nature, in due course of time, once more Shall here put on her beauty and her bloom. "She leaves these objects to a slow decay, That what we are, and have been, may be known ; But at the coming of the milder day These monuments shall all be overgrown.
Σελίδα 136 - tis madness to defer: Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Σελίδα 93 - Villiers lies — alas ! how changed from him, That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim ! Gallant and gay, in Cliveden's proud alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love ; Or just as gay at council, in a ring Of mimic statesmen and their merry King.
Σελίδα 185 - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...
Σελίδα 140 - midst its dreary dells, Whose walls more awful nod By thy religious gleams. Or if chill blustering winds, or driving rain, Prevent my willing feet, be mine the hut That from the mountain's side Views wilds and swelling floods, And hamlets brown and dim-discover'd spires, And hears their simple bell, and marks o'er all Thy dewy fingers draw The gradual dusky veil.
Σελίδα 76 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Σελίδα 194 - Under the opening eyelids of the Morn, We drove a-field, and both together heard What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn. Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night, Oft till the star that rose at evening, bright, Toward heaven's descent had sloped his westering wheel.
Σελίδα 194 - But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes And perfect witness of all-judging Jove; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed.
Σελίδα 200 - For softness she, and sweet attractive grace ; He for God only, she for God in him...