Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United KingdomJ. Murray, 1899 - English literature |
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... expression being regarded as infra classem . Whether the problem plays and realistic novels that supply the need of the " bourgeoisie that carry the purse and control the literary market " will form the classics of the future , or be ...
... expression being regarded as infra classem . Whether the problem plays and realistic novels that supply the need of the " bourgeoisie that carry the purse and control the literary market " will form the classics of the future , or be ...
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... expression . " The smile of joy , " says Dr. Bain , " the puckered features in pain , the stare of astonishment , the quiverings of fear , the tones and glance of tender- ness , the frown of anger , are united in seemingly inseparable ...
... expression . " The smile of joy , " says Dr. Bain , " the puckered features in pain , the stare of astonishment , the quiverings of fear , the tones and glance of tender- ness , the frown of anger , are united in seemingly inseparable ...
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... expression of the different passions , but the blood seems to flow in harmony also . The blush of shame commences in the cheeks and ears , that of anger first flushes the eyes , that of love the forehead . It is of the essence of fine ...
... expression of the different passions , but the blood seems to flow in harmony also . The blush of shame commences in the cheeks and ears , that of anger first flushes the eyes , that of love the forehead . It is of the essence of fine ...
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... expression of their religion as well as in their theological tradition characters which greatly differentiate them from anything properly belonging to Europe . These differences I am disposed 8 RACIAL AND INDIVIDUAL TEMPERAMENTS .
... expression of their religion as well as in their theological tradition characters which greatly differentiate them from anything properly belonging to Europe . These differences I am disposed 8 RACIAL AND INDIVIDUAL TEMPERAMENTS .
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... expression , rapidity and pre- cision in action , are undeniably qualities of the French character . Its deficiencies , according to our English judgment , are exhibited in an apparent instability of purpose , and a want of strength and ...
... expression , rapidity and pre- cision in action , are undeniably qualities of the French character . Its deficiencies , according to our English judgment , are exhibited in an apparent instability of purpose , and a want of strength and ...
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Page 90 - Then kneeling down, to Heaven's Eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays: Hope "springs exulting on triumphant wing," That thus they all shall meet in future days: There, ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise, In such society, yet still more dear; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere...
Page 109 - And bade me creep past. No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers The heroes of old, Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness, and cold. For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute 's at end, And the elements...
Page 106 - tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it. And hark! how blithe the throstle sings! He, too, is no mean preacher: Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your Teacher.
Page 83 - These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air, And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind: we are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep..
Page 96 - Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise; But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realized.
Page 222 - Bright Star! would I were steadfast as thou art — Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores...
Page 97 - Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower ; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind ; In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be ; In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of human suffering ; In the faith that looks through death, In years that bring the philosophic mind.
Page 91 - tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Page 106 - Wordsworth, on the other hand, was to propose to himself as his object, to give the charm of novelty to things of every day, and to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural, by awakening the mind's attention from the lethargy of custom, and directing it to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us...
Page 37 - At her feet he bowed he fell, he lay down at her feet he bowed, he fell where he bowed, there he fell down dead...