The English Poets: Lessing, Rousseau: EssaysW. Scott, 1888 - 337 páginas |
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Essays James Russell Lowell. WQR 19 FEB 36 SPENSER CONTENTS . SHAKESPEARE ONCE MORE MILTON WORDSWORTH KEATS LESSING ROUSSEAU AND THE SENTIMENTALISTS PAGE II 81 149 194 240 261 • 311 AN APOLOGY FOR A PREFACE . HE Editor of this.
Essays James Russell Lowell. WQR 19 FEB 36 SPENSER CONTENTS . SHAKESPEARE ONCE MORE MILTON WORDSWORTH KEATS LESSING ROUSSEAU AND THE SENTIMENTALISTS PAGE II 81 149 194 240 261 • 311 AN APOLOGY FOR A PREFACE . HE Editor of this.
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... Milton fifty years later . For us Occidentals he has a kindly prophetic word : — " And who in time knows whither we may vent The treasure of our tongue ? to what strange shores The gain of our best glory may be sent To enrich unknowing ...
... Milton fifty years later . For us Occidentals he has a kindly prophetic word : — " And who in time knows whither we may vent The treasure of our tongue ? to what strange shores The gain of our best glory may be sent To enrich unknowing ...
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... Milton was afterwards to call him . And , even while he chose the most artificial of all forms , his aim - that of getting back to nature and life - was conscious , I have no doubt , to himself , and must be obvious to whoever reads ...
... Milton was afterwards to call him . And , even while he chose the most artificial of all forms , his aim - that of getting back to nature and life - was conscious , I have no doubt , to himself , and must be obvious to whoever reads ...
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... Milton , a yet greater master , in the " Shepherd's Calendar " as well as in the " Faery * Sir Philip Sidney did not approve of this . " That same framing of his style to an old rustic language I dare not allow , since neither ...
... Milton , a yet greater master , in the " Shepherd's Calendar " as well as in the " Faery * Sir Philip Sidney did not approve of this . " That same framing of his style to an old rustic language I dare not allow , since neither ...
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... Milton ( who got more of his schooling in these matters from Spenser than anywhere else ) gave this principle a greater range , and applied it with more various mastery . I have little doubt that the tune of the last stanza cited above ...
... Milton ( who got more of his schooling in these matters from Spenser than anywhere else ) gave this principle a greater range , and applied it with more various mastery . I have little doubt that the tune of the last stanza cited above ...
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Página 112 - This castle hath a pleasant seat ; the air Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself Unto our gentle senses. BAN. This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
Página 75 - To th' instruments divine respondence meet: The silver sounding instruments did meet With the base murmure of the waters fall: The waters fall with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call: The gentle warbling wind low answered to all.
Página 29 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope ; to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Prince's grace, yet want her peer?
Página 125 - Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change : Thy pyramids built up with newer might To me are nothing novel, nothing strange : They are but dressings of a former sight. Our dates are brief, and therefore we admire What thou dost foist upon us that is old, And rather make them born to our desire, Than think that we before have heard them told. Thy registers and thee I both defy, Not...
Página 168 - Lastly, I should not choose this manner of writing, wherein knowing myself inferior to myself, led by the genial power of nature to another task, I have the use, as I may account, but of my left hand.
Página 248 - And strength by limping sway disabled, And art made tongue-tied by authority...
Página 215 - The majority of the following poems are to be considered as experiments. They were written chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower classes of society is adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure.
Página 289 - In bigness to surpass Earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless...
Página 163 - Hath scathed the forest oaks, or mountain pines, With singed top their stately growth, though bare Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepared To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half inclose him round With all his peers : attention held them mute.
Página 191 - THE measure is English heroic verse without rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin, — rime being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse, in longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre...