The Study of English Literature: A Plea for Its Recognition and Organization at the UniversitiesMacmillan, 1891 - 167 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 79 - I know but one way of fortifying my soul against these gloomy presages and terrors of mind, and that is, by securing to myself the friendship and protection of that Being who disposes of events, and governs futurity. He sees at one view, the whole thread...
Σελίδα 60 - The critic eye, that microscope of wit, Sees hairs and pores, examines bit by bit : How parts relate to parts or they to whole ; The body's harmony, the beaming soul, Are things which Kuster, Burman, Wasse shall see, When man's whole frame is obvious to a flea.
Σελίδα 69 - To ask, to guess, to know, as they commence, As fancy opens the quick springs of sense, We ply the memory, we load the brain, Bind rebel wit, and double chain on chain ; Confine the thought, to exercise the breath ; And keep them in the pale words till death. Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind : A poet the first day he dips his quill ; And what the last ? A very poet still.
Σελίδα 65 - The mind it neither enlarges, stimulates, nor refines. On the contrary, it too often induces or confirms that peculiar woodenness and opacity, that singular coarseness of feeling and purblindness of moral and intellectual vision, which has in all ages been characteristic of mere philologists.
Σελίδα 79 - I recommend myself to his care ; when I awake, I give myself up to his direction. Amidst all the evils that threaten me, I will look up to him for help, and question not but he will either avert them, or turn them to my advantage. Though I know neither the time nor the manner of...
Σελίδα 23 - ... literary teachers should aim would have no security that his work would not be tested and his pupils plucked by a man against whose views his whole work had been a tacit protest. If in a school or institute instruction in English literature be required an application for such instruction is made — and the rest is fortune. It may come in the form of excellent lectures the theory and method of which proceed on the principle that English literature began in the valleys of the Punjab and ended...
Σελίδα 69 - Lincoln,12 that the following lines from the Dunciad should be inscribed in letters of gold over the doors of the Classical Schools, he replied with a smile, 'Substitute letters of lead, and you have my entire approval': Since man from beasts by Words is known, Words are man's province: Words we teach alone When Reason doubtful, like the Samian letter, Points us two ways, the narrower is the better. Plac'd at the door of Learning youth to guide, We never suffer it to stand too wide; To ask, to guess,...
Σελίδα 54 - ... deficiency in our national education. In a country like ours, where the current will always run in a scientific and positive direction, nothing is so much to be regretted as the almost entire absence of any systematic provision for ' musical ' culture. At the Universities the want is to some extent supplied by the study of classical literature, but throughout the country our own literature must necessarily be the chief medium for disseminating that culture, if it is to be disseminated at all....