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Page 44
For the bright and gorgeous words are out of place ; they get in the way between
heart and heart , attract attention to themselves , and cannot draw out the gentlest
, softest notes . Therefore in poetry of the feelings all depends on the truth of ...
For the bright and gorgeous words are out of place ; they get in the way between
heart and heart , attract attention to themselves , and cannot draw out the gentlest
, softest notes . Therefore in poetry of the feelings all depends on the truth of ...
Page 45
Simplicity and truth must be looked for . Poetry of the imagination starts from a
different point , and goes on different principles . Descriptive poetry is not already
in the hearer , as the feelings are . A picture has to be presented , and the poet
has ...
Simplicity and truth must be looked for . Poetry of the imagination starts from a
different point , and goes on different principles . Descriptive poetry is not already
in the hearer , as the feelings are . A picture has to be presented , and the poet
has ...
Page 46
But most prose and poetry have much in common . In both the first thing to be
cultivated is perfection of truth . By this is meant no enumeration of obvious
outside facts , but the great realities , whether outside or in , which are the life -
marks of ...
But most prose and poetry have much in common . In both the first thing to be
cultivated is perfection of truth . By this is meant no enumeration of obvious
outside facts , but the great realities , whether outside or in , which are the life -
marks of ...
Page 47
But this vivid inner truth will depend much on the point of view taken , and every
word and image must tend to illustrate and increase the main idea . For instance ,
rain after drought is a very pleasant sound . Hear Shelley :“ Sound of vernal ...
But this vivid inner truth will depend much on the point of view taken , and every
word and image must tend to illustrate and increase the main idea . For instance ,
rain after drought is a very pleasant sound . Hear Shelley :“ Sound of vernal ...
Page 48
This skill depends in principle on a perfectly masterly comprehension of the
essential truths of the subject , the inner life and life power , which necessitates
all the parts falling into their right places and blending harmoniously . For truth ...
This skill depends in principle on a perfectly masterly comprehension of the
essential truths of the subject , the inner life and life power , which necessitates
all the parts falling into their right places and blending harmoniously . For truth ...
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Page 102 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page 219 - No more shall grief of mine the season wrong; I hear the Echoes through the mountains throng, The Winds come to me from the fields of sleep, And all the earth is gay; Land and sea Give themselves up to jollity...
Page 124 - Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying. O hark, O hear ! how thin and clear, And thinner, clearer, farther going ! O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing ! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying : Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Page 124 - The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story : The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Page 218 - As to the tabor's sound, To me alone there came a thought of grief: A timely utterance gave that thought relief, And I again am strong...
Page 114 - For swift to east and swift to west the ghastly war-flame spread, High on St. Michael's Mount it shone: it shone on Beachy Head. Far on the deep the Spaniard saw, along each southern shire, Cape beyond cape, in endless range, those twinkling points of fire.
Page 113 - And crushed and torn beneath his claws the princely hunters lay. Ho! strike the flagstaff deep, Sir Knight: ho! scatter flowers, fair maids: Ho! gunners, fire a loud salute: ho! gallants, draw your blades: Thou sun, shine on her joyously; ye breezes, waft her wide; Our glorious SEMPER EADEM, the banner of our pride.
Page 87 - My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard.
Page 114 - From Eddystone to Berwick bounds, from Lynn to Milford Bay, That time of slumber was as bright and busy as the day; For swift to east and swift to west the ghastly warflame spread, High on St.
Page 208 - Uncared for, gird the windy grove, And flood the haunts of hern and crake, Or into silver arrows break The sailing moon in creek and cove; Till from the garden and the wild A fresh association blow, And year by year the landscape grow Familiar to the stranger's child; As year by year the laborer tills His wonted glebe, or lops the glades, And year by year our memory fades From all the circle of the hills.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Exercises in Grammatical Analysis Clarendon press series |
| Author | Edward Thring |
| Publisher | Claredon Press, 1868 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 28 Sep 2006 |
| Length | 224 pages |
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