Essays and PoemsCharles C. Little and James Brown, 1839 - 175 pages |
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... strongly than any other the great moral wants of his age , that can give to such a work its unity and power . It has been well said that in reading the gay creations of Ariosto , — of his fairy bowers and castles and palaces , we are ...
... strongly than any other the great moral wants of his age , that can give to such a work its unity and power . It has been well said that in reading the gay creations of Ariosto , — of his fairy bowers and castles and palaces , we are ...
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... strongly feel or vividly describe . These manners perish with their age , — there is no hand of enchantment to wave over them and convert them , like the fabled city of Arabian romance , into living stone ; no convulsion of nature ...
... strongly feel or vividly describe . These manners perish with their age , — there is no hand of enchantment to wave over them and convert them , like the fabled city of Arabian romance , into living stone ; no convulsion of nature ...
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... heroic character . He would , doubtless , have possessed as well as Virgil , whom he has so closely followed , greater originality , and more strongly ex- hibited that development , had he lived nearer the age EPIC POETRY . 19.
... heroic character . He would , doubtless , have possessed as well as Virgil , whom he has so closely followed , greater originality , and more strongly ex- hibited that development , had he lived nearer the age EPIC POETRY . 19.
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... the mind's action , which , if it cannot be given , must preclude the possibility of another great epic . In fact , Milton's poem but confirms more strongly the conclusion we drew from Dante's , that EPIC POETRY . 25.
... the mind's action , which , if it cannot be given , must preclude the possibility of another great epic . In fact , Milton's poem but confirms more strongly the conclusion we drew from Dante's , that EPIC POETRY . 25.
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Jones Very Ralph Waldo Emerson. more strongly the conclusion we drew from Dante's , that dramatic is supplying the place of epic interest . His long deliberation in the choice of a subject suited to his conceptions , shows the difficulty ...
Jones Very Ralph Waldo Emerson. more strongly the conclusion we drew from Dante's , that dramatic is supplying the place of epic interest . His long deliberation in the choice of a subject suited to his conceptions , shows the difficulty ...
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admiration Aristotle beauty become beneath bloom bosom 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 motley fool natural action never 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
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Page 78 - I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.
Page 46 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, ^ That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Page 104 - Our revels now are ended... These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air, And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind: we are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep..
Page 92 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown ! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword : The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
Page 59 - The homely nurse doth all she can To make her foster-child, her inmate, Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the Child among his new-born blisses, A six years
Page 92 - Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune, death and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell.
Page 72 - There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them; who, in love and truth Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth: Glad hearts! without reproach or blot, Who do thy work, and know it not: Oh ! if through confidence misplaced They fail, thy saving arms, dread Power!
Page 24 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring, Or chasms, and watery depths ; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Page 34 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Page 46 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...