The Masterpieces and the History of Literature: Analysis, Criticism, Character and Incident, Volume 3Julian Hawthorne Hamilton Book Company, 1906 - Literature |
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1st Chan Agamemnon Anasuya Antig Antigone bear beauty behold Biondello Boccaccio Bruin called Charudatta Chaucer child Ciacco Cicero Clytemnestra court Creon damsels daughter dear death deed didst Don Quixote dost doth drama dread Dush Dushyanta Edipus Eschylus Euripides eyes fair fate father fear Federigo flowers Friar Gargantua gave glory gods Greek grief hand hast hath hear heart heaven Hephaestus holy honor horse Iphigenia Jocasta king knight knights-errant Krishna lady Laius literature live look lord lover Lucretius master Medea Messer mind monk mother murder never noble o'er Palamon Petrarch poem poet Polybus priest Rabelais replied Reynard ring Roman Sakuntala Sancho satire SIRMIO smile Sophocles soul speak story sweet Tannhäuser tears tell thee thine things thou art thought unto weeping wilt words Zeus
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Page 374 - A million torches lighted by thy hand Wander unwearied through the blue abyss : They own thy power, accomplish thy command. All gay with life, all eloquent with bliss What shall we call them? Piles of crystal light— A glorious company of golden streams — Lamps of celestial ether, burning bright — Suns lighting systems with their joyous beams ? But thou to these art as the noon to night.
Page 373 - Thou eternal One, whose presence bright All space doth occupy, all motion guide, Unchanged through Time's all-devastating flight— Thou only God! There is no God beside! Being above all beings! Mighty One, Whom none can comprehend, and none explore...
Page 348 - With that, there came an arrow keen Out of an English bow, Which struck Earl Douglas to the heart, A deep and deadly blow ; Who never spake more words than these, " Fight on, my merry men all ; For why, my life is at an end, Lord Percy sees my fall.
Page 375 - Thou art ! directing, guiding all, thou art ! Direct my understanding, then, to thee ; Control my spirit, guide my wandering heart Though but an atom 'midst immensity, Still I am something, fashioned by thy hand ! I hold a middle rank 'twixt heaven and earth, On the last verge of mortal being stand, Close to the realms where angels have their birth, Just on the boundaries of the spirit land...
Page 373 - May measure out the ocean deep, may count The sands or the sun's rays — but God ! for thee There is no weight nor measure ; none can mount Up to thy mysteries. Reason's brightest spark, Though kindled by thy light, in vain would try To trace thy counsels, infinite and dark; And thought is lost ere thought can soar so high, — E'en like past moments in eternity.
Page 178 - might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me: but 'tis to much purpose to evade it, the common custom and use of life will have it so. Most of my actions are guided by example, not choice.
Page 374 - Yes! in my spirit doth Thy spirit shine As shines the sunbeam in a drop of dew.
Page 347 - I'll do the best that do I may, While I have power to stand: While I have power to wield my sword, I'll fight with heart and hand.
Page 178 - The sincerity and marrow of the man reaches to his sentences. I know not anywhere the book that seems less written. It is the language of conversation transferred to a book. Cut these words, and they would bleed ; they are vascular and alive.
Page 373 - O, THOU ETERNAL ONE ! whose presence bright All space doth occupy, all motion guide ; Unchanged through time's all-devastating flight ; Thou only God ! There is no God beside ! Being above all beings ! Mighty One Whom none can comprehend and none explore...