Essays And PoemsRead Books Ltd, 2013 M07 8 - 180 pages Jones Very was an American poet and essayist associated with the American Transcendentalism movement. Here stands a wonderful collection on Very's essays and poetry. Essays include: Epic Poetry, Shakespeare and Hamlet. Poems include: To the Humming Bird, To the Fossil Flower, The Tree, Beauty, The New Birth, The Soldier, The Earth and many many more. |
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... in the way of any subject. Looking upon Homer, at least as regards the Iliad, as a single man speaking throughout with one accent of voice, one form of language, and one expression of feeling, we leave to the framers of.
... in the way of any subject. Looking upon Homer, at least as regards the Iliad, as a single man speaking throughout with one accent of voice, one form of language, and one expression of feeling, we leave to the framers of.
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Jones Very. one expression of feeling, we leave to the framers of modern paradoxes the question, whether this name is a type ... feel, of revealing to his age forms of nobler beauty and heroism than dwell in the minds of those around him ...
Jones Very. one expression of feeling, we leave to the framers of modern paradoxes the question, whether this name is a type ... feel, of revealing to his age forms of nobler beauty and heroism than dwell in the minds of those around him ...
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... feel within our own bosoms a great, an immortal foe, which, if we have subdued, we may meet with calmness every other, knowing that earth contains no greater; but which, if we have not, it will continually appear in those petty contests ...
... feel within our own bosoms a great, an immortal foe, which, if we have subdued, we may meet with calmness every other, knowing that earth contains no greater; but which, if we have not, it will continually appear in those petty contests ...
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... feeling of sorrow that they had not lived under influences as favorable as our own, without a sense of unworthiness at not having exhibited characters corresponding with the high privileges we enjoy. We respect that grandeur of mind in ...
... feeling of sorrow that they had not lived under influences as favorable as our own, without a sense of unworthiness at not having exhibited characters corresponding with the high privileges we enjoy. We respect that grandeur of mind in ...
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... feeling, have a passive form, such as Φράζομαι, Οἴομαι, Aίσθάνομαι, Σxέπτομαι, 'Eπίσταμαι, Bούλομαι, &c. “Men's minds,” as Shakspeare has somewhere said, “are parcel of their fortunes,” and his age was necessary and alone suited to the ...
... feeling, have a passive form, such as Φράζομαι, Οἴομαι, Aίσθάνομαι, Σxέπτομαι, 'Eπίσταμαι, Bούλομαι, &c. “Men's minds,” as Shakspeare has somewhere said, “are parcel of their fortunes,” and his age was necessary and alone suited to the ...
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admiration Aristotle beauty become beneath bloom bosom breast breath child childlike Christ Christian consciousness creations dæmon Dante’s dark death Divine doth e’en earth endeavor to show epic interest epic poem epic poetry eternal exhibit existence Father feel felt flower forever genius gift give God’s Hamlet hand Harfleur hast hear heart heaven heroes heroic character heroic spirit Homer hour human mind Iago Iliad impulse influence innocence light live look Lucan Macbeth man’s Menelaus Milton mind’s motive natural action nature’s never night o’er objects onward ourselves outward Paradise Lost perfect physical play poet poet’s Polonius possessed praise present rendered rest robes Sartor Resartus seems selfishness sense Shakspeare Shakspeare’s mind soliloquy song soul speak stand strange stream strongly sublime sweet tell thee thine things Thou may’st thought tongue tree unconscious utter Virgil visible voice wind wonder words