Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United KingdomJ. Murray, 1899 - English literature |
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... says , " the real classic authors of the twofold anti- quity stood out for the future on a luminous back- ground , and formed two harmonious groups on their two eminences . " * With the birth of modern litera- ture , Italy , England ...
... says , " the real classic authors of the twofold anti- quity stood out for the future on a luminous back- ground , and formed two harmonious groups on their two eminences . " * With the birth of modern litera- ture , Italy , England ...
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... other hand , is more imaginative , and often fails to give undivided attention . Mr. Byrne , who made a careful study of the Irish character , says that the Irishman's ideas are apt to be indefi- RACIAL AND INDIVIDUAL TEMPERAMENTS . 11.
... other hand , is more imaginative , and often fails to give undivided attention . Mr. Byrne , who made a careful study of the Irish character , says that the Irishman's ideas are apt to be indefi- RACIAL AND INDIVIDUAL TEMPERAMENTS . 11.
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... says with reference to the sonnets of his friend Étienne de la Boetie , that those which were composed for the mistress are worth more than those addressed to the lawful wife . " I am one of those , " he says , " whose opinion is that ...
... says with reference to the sonnets of his friend Étienne de la Boetie , that those which were composed for the mistress are worth more than those addressed to the lawful wife . " I am one of those , " he says , " whose opinion is that ...
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... says Dr. Luys , " that enables great writers to know point by point , and express with precision , and put into the mouths of their personages , natural expressions of the passions which are to be developed in them . " * * The Brain and ...
... says Dr. Luys , " that enables great writers to know point by point , and express with precision , and put into the mouths of their personages , natural expressions of the passions which are to be developed in them . " * * The Brain and ...
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... says " nearly every individual is notable for some peculi- arity of mind or disposition , and in some few persons the sanguine , melancholic , nervous , or lymphatic temperament is well marked . All such peculiarities should be noted ...
... says " nearly every individual is notable for some peculi- arity of mind or disposition , and in some few persons the sanguine , melancholic , nervous , or lymphatic temperament is well marked . All such peculiarities should be noted ...
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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...