The English Poets: Lessing, Rousseau: EssaysW. Scott, 1888 - 337 من الصفحات |
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... poem that keeps the language alive , and not the language that buoys up the poem . The revival of letters , as it is called , was at first the revival of ancient letters , which , while it made men pedants , could do very little toward ...
... poem that keeps the language alive , and not the language that buoys up the poem . The revival of letters , as it is called , was at first the revival of ancient letters , which , while it made men pedants , could do very little toward ...
الصفحة 12
... poems die , it is because there was never true life in them — that is , that true poetic vitality which no depth of ... poem of such an incongruous mixture . Can these dry bones live ? Yes , Dante can create such a soul under these ribs ...
... poems die , it is because there was never true life in them — that is , that true poetic vitality which no depth of ... poem of such an incongruous mixture . Can these dry bones live ? Yes , Dante can create such a soul under these ribs ...
الصفحة 13
... the travail Of every love but upon God alone . " But except this lucky poem , I find little else in the serious verses of Dunbar that does not seem to me tedious and pedantic . I dare say a few more lines might SPENSER . 13.
... the travail Of every love but upon God alone . " But except this lucky poem , I find little else in the serious verses of Dunbar that does not seem to me tedious and pedantic . I dare say a few more lines might SPENSER . 13.
الصفحة 14
... poem , has passages whose simple tenderness raises them to that level . That on Freedom is familiar . * But its highest merit is the natural and unstrained tone of manly courage in it , the easy and familiar way in which Barbour always ...
... poem , has passages whose simple tenderness raises them to that level . That on Freedom is familiar . * But its highest merit is the natural and unstrained tone of manly courage in it , the easy and familiar way in which Barbour always ...
الصفحة 15
... poem is even worse , for it is to say that what should be true of the whole compass of human nature is true only to some north - and - by - east - half - east point of it . I can understand the nationality of Firdusi when , looking ...
... poem is even worse , for it is to say that what should be true of the whole compass of human nature is true only to some north - and - by - east - half - east point of it . I can understand the nationality of Firdusi when , looking ...
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الصفحة 112 - This castle hath a pleasant seat ; the air Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself Unto our gentle senses. BAN. This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
الصفحة 75 - To th' instruments divine respondence meet: The silver sounding instruments did meet With the base murmure of the waters fall: The waters fall with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call: The gentle warbling wind low answered to all.
الصفحة 29 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope ; to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Prince's grace, yet want her peer?
الصفحة 125 - Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change : Thy pyramids built up with newer might To me are nothing novel, nothing strange : They are but dressings of a former sight. Our dates are brief, and therefore we admire What thou dost foist upon us that is old, And rather make them born to our desire, Than think that we before have heard them told. Thy registers and thee I both defy, Not...
الصفحة 168 - Lastly, I should not choose this manner of writing, wherein knowing myself inferior to myself, led by the genial power of nature to another task, I have the use, as I may account, but of my left hand.
الصفحة 248 - And strength by limping sway disabled, And art made tongue-tied by authority...
الصفحة 215 - The majority of the following poems are to be considered as experiments. They were written chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower classes of society is adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure.
الصفحة 289 - In bigness to surpass Earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless...
الصفحة 163 - Hath scathed the forest oaks, or mountain pines, With singed top their stately growth, though bare Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepared To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half inclose him round With all his peers : attention held them mute.
الصفحة 191 - THE measure is English heroic verse without rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin, — rime being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse, in longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre...