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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... look back upon the pages of their history, we cannot contemplate the greatness there exhibited, without a feeling of ... looks upon them but as results of former battles won and lost, upon whose decision, and upon whose alone, its ...
... look back upon the pages of their history, we cannot contemplate the greatness there exhibited, without a feeling of ... looks upon them but as results of former battles won and lost, upon whose decision, and upon whose alone, its ...
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... look upon themselves in all reflex acts, whether external or internal, as patients rather than agents; a tendency to use the words of another, which is exemplified in every page of the Homeric poems, and which belongs more or less to ...
... look upon themselves in all reflex acts, whether external or internal, as patients rather than agents; a tendency to use the words of another, which is exemplified in every page of the Homeric poems, and which belongs more or less to ...
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... look without for no rules drawn from others; he feels within himself the living standard of the great and beautiful, and bows to that alone: as far as it has become changed by human error or imperfection, he would gladly restore it to ...
... look without for no rules drawn from others; he feels within himself the living standard of the great and beautiful, and bows to that alone: as far as it has become changed by human error or imperfection, he would gladly restore it to ...
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... look with less interest upon his army's incursions into the territory of an enemy. As Sallust says of Jugurtha, “totum regnum animo jam invaserat.” To complain of this tendency of the human mind and its influence on literature, to sigh ...
... look with less interest upon his army's incursions into the territory of an enemy. As Sallust says of Jugurtha, “totum regnum animo jam invaserat.” To complain of this tendency of the human mind and its influence on literature, to sigh ...
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... looks at the world with reference to himself, and not at himself with reference to the world. How different the view which Virgil takes of his country from that of the Christian poet; yet each how worthy of its age! “Sed neque Medorum ...
... looks at the world with reference to himself, and not at himself with reference to the world. How different the view which Virgil takes of his country from that of the Christian poet; yet each how worthy of its age! “Sed neque Medorum ...
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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