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... present themselves to a mind willing , at least , if not zealous , for such culture . The first inquiry that presents itself is , " What books does it behoove me to know ? " The docile question is , " What am I to read ? " A world of ...
... present themselves to a mind willing , at least , if not zealous , for such culture . The first inquiry that presents itself is , " What books does it behoove me to know ? " The docile question is , " What am I to read ? " A world of ...
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... present some thoughts and suggestions with a view to the surmounting of these difficulties , and to guidance into the department of English literature . I propose now to consider the general principles of literature , and in the next ...
... present some thoughts and suggestions with a view to the surmounting of these difficulties , and to guidance into the department of English literature . I propose now to consider the general principles of literature , and in the next ...
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... present purpose is to consider this one agency - lite- rature — as a means of culture of character , manly and womanly ; but , at the same time , let it be borne in mind that nothing conduces more to the well - being and strength of the ...
... present purpose is to consider this one agency - lite- rature — as a means of culture of character , manly and womanly ; but , at the same time , let it be borne in mind that nothing conduces more to the well - being and strength of the ...
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... present subject , and having ascertained that its prime quality is its power of addressing itself to man as man , let us now see for what purpose it so deals with our common humanity , that we may have a principle to guide us in our ...
... present subject , and having ascertained that its prime quality is its power of addressing itself to man as man , let us now see for what purpose it so deals with our common humanity , that we may have a principle to guide us in our ...
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... in its connection with my present subject . Let me say , in the first place , that I question whether it is proper , or even practicable , so to detach womanhood from our common human nature as 4 * PRINCIPLES OF LITERATURE . 41.
... in its connection with my present subject . Let me say , in the first place , that I question whether it is proper , or even practicable , so to detach womanhood from our common human nature as 4 * PRINCIPLES OF LITERATURE . 41.
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Strona 276 - I see before me the Gladiator lie: He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him! — He is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won.
Strona 307 - Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years? They are leaning their young heads against their mothers, And that cannot stop their tears. The young lambs are bleating in the meadows, The young birds are chirping in the nest, The young fawns are playing with the shadows, The young flowers are blowing toward the west But the young, young children, O my brothers, They are weeping bitterly ! They are weeping in the playtime of the others, In the country of the free.
Strona 314 - Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols : and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Strona 231 - It was said of Socrates, that he brought Philosophy down from Heaven to inhabit among Men ; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-tables, and in Coffee-houses.
Strona 36 - Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good : Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.
Strona 328 - Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O Sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. O well for the fisherman's boy, That he shouts with his sister at play! O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill; But O for the touch of a...
Strona 305 - Paradise, and groves Elysian, Fortunate Fields — like those of old Sought in the Atlantic Main — why should they be A history only of departed things, Or a mere fiction of what never was ? For the discerning intellect of Man, When wedded to this goodly universe In love and holy passion, shall find these A simple produce of the common day.
Strona 287 - Man knoweth not the price thereof ; Neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith, It is not in me: And the sea saith, It is not with me.
Strona 207 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
Strona 224 - Camoens soothed an exile's grief ; The sonnet glittered a gay myrtle leaf Amid the cypress with which Dante crowned His visionary brow: a glow-worm lamp, It cheered mild Spenser, called from Faery-land To struggle through dark ways; and when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet ; whence he blew Soul-animating strains — alas, too few...