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... literary expression remains substantially the same in form , following it may be also certain lines of thought , is called a literary period . Literary periods will be found to correspond roughly to political periods , for the ...
... literary expression remains substantially the same in form , following it may be also certain lines of thought , is called a literary period . Literary periods will be found to correspond roughly to political periods , for the ...
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... literary periods are not sharply defined . In one period may exist a group of influential writers whose roots are in the past , who in reality belong to the past , and with them others who belong to their own time , and possibly even ...
... literary periods are not sharply defined . In one period may exist a group of influential writers whose roots are in the past , who in reality belong to the past , and with them others who belong to their own time , and possibly even ...
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... literary period . The greatest literature possesses what may be called a general human interest , because the greatest writers take a serious view of life and are profoundly conscious of the great questions of duty , destiny , fate ...
... literary period . The greatest literature possesses what may be called a general human interest , because the greatest writers take a serious view of life and are profoundly conscious of the great questions of duty , destiny , fate ...
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... literary side . Elements of It is impossible to determine the proportion of each of the original elements in the mass of the people . In cer- tain districts , such as Cornwall and Wales , the the English population is still of nearly ...
... literary side . Elements of It is impossible to determine the proportion of each of the original elements in the mass of the people . In cer- tain districts , such as Cornwall and Wales , the the English population is still of nearly ...
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... literary qualities are due to the Celtic root is a question that cannot be answered with precision because literary genius is so subtle . The answer to the question will depend largely on the admira- tion for the qualities of one race ...
... literary qualities are due to the Celtic root is a question that cannot be answered with precision because literary genius is so subtle . The answer to the question will depend largely on the admira- tion for the qualities of one race ...
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Page 338 - What thou art we know not ; What is most like thee ? From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody.
Page 324 - It ceased ; yet still the sails made on A pleasant noise till noon, A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.
Page 469 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way...
Page 341 - He has outsoared the shadow of our night; Envy and calumny and hate and pain, And that unrest which men miscall delight, Can touch him not and torture not again...
Page 338 - Like a glow-worm golden In a dell of dew, Scattering unbeholden Its aerial hue Among the flowers and grass which screen it from the view...
Page 158 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Page 339 - What objects are the fountains Of thy happy strain ? What fields, or waves, or mountains ? What shapes of sky or plain ? What love of thine own kind ? what ignorance of pain ? With thy clear, keen joyance Languor cannot be : Shadow of annoyance Never came near thee : Thou lovest, but ne'er knew love's sad satiety.
Page 233 - Fear no more the frown o' the great; Thou art past the tyrant's stroke; Care no more to clothe and eat; To thee the reed is as the oak : The sceptre, learning, physic, must All follow this, and come to dust.
Page 341 - Peace, peace ! he is not dead, he doth not sleep — He hath awakened from the dream of life — 'Tis we, who, lost in stormy visions, keep With phantoms an unprofitable strife, And in mad trance strike with our spirit's knife Invulnerable nothings.
Page 213 - CYRIACK, this three years day these eyes, though clear, To outward view, of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot ; Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope ; but still bear up and steer Right onward.