Essays and PoemsArno Press, 1972 - 175 pages |
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... greatest influence ; for it was produced by the power of materiality which is lessened with every advance of the Christian char- acter . His poem plainly shows that the tendency which Christianity gave to poetry was not to the epic but ...
... greatest influence ; for it was produced by the power of materiality which is lessened with every advance of the Christian char- acter . His poem plainly shows that the tendency which Christianity gave to poetry was not to the epic but ...
Page 29
... greatest power could be shown engaged in bringing about the greatest results . Adam is not so much the Achilles as the Troy of the poem . And there is no better proof that greatness has left the material throne , which she has so long ...
... greatest power could be shown engaged in bringing about the greatest results . Adam is not so much the Achilles as the Troy of the poem . And there is no better proof that greatness has left the material throne , which she has so long ...
Page 56
... greatest works is finisher , Oft does them by the weakest minister : So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown , When judges have been babes . Great floods have flown From simple sources ; and great seas have dried When miracles have by ...
... greatest works is finisher , Oft does them by the weakest minister : So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown , When judges have been babes . Great floods have flown From simple sources ; and great seas have dried When miracles have by ...
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admiration Aristotle beauty become beneath bloom bosom Boston breast breath bright child childlike Christ Christian consciousness creations dæmon dark death Divine doth earth ence endeavor to show epic interest epic poem epic poetry eternal exhibit existence Father feel felt flower forever free agency genius gift give Hamlet hand Harfleur hast hear heart heaven heroes heroic character heroic spirit Homer hour human mind Iliad impulse influence JAMES BROWN light live look Lucan Macbeth Menelaus Milton motive Nathaniel Parker natural action never night o'er objects onward ourselves outward Paradise Lost perfect play poet poet's Polonius possessed praise present rejoice rendered rest robes seems selfishness sense Shakspeare Shakspeare's mind song soul speak stand strange stream strongly sweet tell thee thine things thou thought tion tism tongue tree uncon unconscious utter Virgil visible voice wind wonder words