The Liberal Movement in English LiteratureJ. Murray, 1885 - 240 páginas |
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Página ix
... move- ment in the region of thought . ' " I have not used the words ' Liberalism ' and ' Conservatism ' in any invidious or party sense . By ' Liberalism ' I mean the disposition which leads men to seek above all things the enlarge ...
... move- ment in the region of thought . ' " I have not used the words ' Liberalism ' and ' Conservatism ' in any invidious or party sense . By ' Liberalism ' I mean the disposition which leads men to seek above all things the enlarge ...
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... move- ment , ' the writings of those who , in point of time , followed the French Revolution , and who founded their matter and style on the principles to which that Revolution gave birth . It may , I think , be regarded as no less ...
... move- ment , ' the writings of those who , in point of time , followed the French Revolution , and who founded their matter and style on the principles to which that Revolution gave birth . It may , I think , be regarded as no less ...
Página 53
... move- ment , distinctive of the eighteenth century , in its literature ; but I think that a little consider- ation will show it to be very visible in the work of Pope , whom I have chosen as the natural representative of the poetry of ...
... move- ment , distinctive of the eighteenth century , in its literature ; but I think that a little consider- ation will show it to be very visible in the work of Pope , whom I have chosen as the natural representative of the poetry of ...
Página 60
... move the imagination of society . Pope perceived this , and he understood that the quibbles , refine- ments , and affectations that mark their style , were the product of imaginative exhaustion . His criticism on their work is sweeping ...
... move the imagination of society . Pope perceived this , and he understood that the quibbles , refine- ments , and affectations that mark their style , were the product of imaginative exhaustion . His criticism on their work is sweeping ...
Página 97
... moving in a world of its own it is exhilarated by the atmosphere ; and it seeks for unusual forms in which to ex- press its enthusiasm . Or take , again , the mag- nificent lines on Yew Trees ' : 6 There is a Yew - Tree , pride of ...
... moving in a world of its own it is exhilarated by the atmosphere ; and it seeks for unusual forms in which to ex- press its enthusiasm . Or take , again , the mag- nificent lines on Yew Trees ' : 6 There is a Yew - Tree , pride of ...
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Página 149 - Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are; I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne and yet must bear...
Página 161 - The remotest discoveries of the chemist, the botanist, or mineralogist, will be as proper objects of the poet's art as any upon which it can be employed, if the time should ever come when these things shall be familiar to us, and the relations under which they are contemplated by the followers of these respective sciences shall be manifestly and palpably material to us as enjoying and suffering beings.
Página 182 - O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and the trodden weed; Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral! When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, "Beauty is truth, truth beauty," — that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
Página 133 - My days are in the yellow leaf ; The flowers and fruits of love are gone ; The worm, the canker, and the grief Are mine alone...
Página 86 - The principal object, then, proposed in these poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as was possible in a selection of language really used by men...
Página 51 - Right, it has been the uniform policy of our Constitution to claim and assert our liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity...
Página 79 - In the one the incidents and agents were to be, in part at least, supernatural ; and the excellence aimed at was to consist in the interesting of the affections by the dramatic truth of such emotions as would naturally accompany such situations, supposing them real.
Página 98 - Perennially — beneath whose sable roof Of boughs, as if for festal purpose decked With unrejoicing berries — ghostly Shapes May meet at noontide ; Fear and trembling Hope, Silence and Foresight ; Death the Skeleton, And Time the Shadow...
Página 168 - Midway the smooth and perilous slope reclined, Save when your own imperious branches swinging, Have made a solemn music of the wind! Where, like a man beloved of God, Through glooms, which never woodman trod...
Página 92 - Suffices me, — her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears. " The dragon's wing, the magic ring, I shall not covet for my dower, If I along that lowly way With sympathetic heart may stray, And with a soul of power.