The Classical Influence in English Literature in the Nineteenth Century: And Other Essays and Notes

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Stratford Company, 1918 - 150 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 105 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
الصفحة 105 - Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded : the love-tale Infected Sion's daughters with like heat, Whose wanton passions in the sacred porch Ezekiel saw, when, by the vision led, His eye surveyed the dark idolatries Of alienated Judah.
الصفحة 125 - Yorick had an invincible dislike and opposition in his nature to gravity; — not to gravity as such; — for where gravity was wanted, he would be the most grave or serious of mortal men for days and weeks together; — but he was an enemy to the affectation of it, and declared open war against it, only as it appeared a cloak for ignorance, or for folly: and then, whenever it fell in his way, however sheltered and protected, he seldom gave it much quarter.
الصفحة 82 - The world of imagination is the world of eternity; it is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after the death of the vegetated body.
الصفحة 145 - SHADED lamp and a waving blind, And the beat of a clock from a distant floor : On this scene enter — winged, horned, and spined— A longlegs, a moth, and a dumbledore ; While 'mid my page there idly stands A sleepy fly, that rubs its hands . . . Thus meet we five, in this still place, At this point of time, at this point in space.
الصفحة 74 - The vision of Christ that thou dost see Is my vision's greatest enemy. Thine has a great hook nose like thine; Mine has a snub nose like to mine. Thine is the friend of all mankind; Mine speaks in parables to the blind.
الصفحة 52 - Hers is the head upon which all ' the ends of the world are come,' and the eyelids are a little weary. It is a beauty wrought out from within upon the flesh, the deposit, little cell by cell, of strange thoughts and fantastic reveries and exquisite passions. Set it for a moment beside one of those white Greek goddesses or beautiful women of antiquity, and how would they be troubled by this beauty, into which the soul with all its maladies has passed...
الصفحة 62 - I became the spendthrift of my own genius, and to waste an eternal youth gave me a curious joy. Tired of being on the heights, I deliberately went to the depths in the search for new sensation.
الصفحة 72 - Dear Sir, excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I take a pencil or graver into my hand, even as I used to be in my youth, and as I have not been for twenty dark, but very profitable years.
الصفحة 146 - Lothly a rival's air, Cankering in black despair If overborne. Since, then, no grace I find Taught me of trees, Turn I back to my kind, Worthy as these. There at least smiles abound, There discourse trills around, There, now a'nd then, are found Life-loyalties.

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