Studies in English Literature: Being Typical Selections of British and American Authorship, from Shakespeare to the Present Time, Together with Definitions, Notes, Analyses, and Glossary as an Aid to Systematic Literary Study, for Use in High and Normal Schools, Academies, Seminaries, &c |
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... . BY WILLIAM SWINTON AUTHOR OF و " " HARPER'S LANGUAGE SERIES AND GOLD MEDALLIST PARIS EXPOSITION 1878 WITH PORTRAITS NEW YORK HARPER & BROTHERS , FRANKLIN SQUARE Entered according to Act of Congress , in the year 1894 STUDIES.
... . BY WILLIAM SWINTON AUTHOR OF و " " HARPER'S LANGUAGE SERIES AND GOLD MEDALLIST PARIS EXPOSITION 1878 WITH PORTRAITS NEW YORK HARPER & BROTHERS , FRANKLIN SQUARE Entered according to Act of Congress , in the year 1894 STUDIES.
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... language : so that he will no longer be reading merely about the masters , but reading the mas- ters themselves - ascending with them into the " heaven of their invention , " and feeding his soul on the divine bread of their high ...
... language : so that he will no longer be reading merely about the masters , but reading the mas- ters themselves - ascending with them into the " heaven of their invention , " and feeding his soul on the divine bread of their high ...
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... language . I. Description is generally divided into two kinds : a . Objective description — referring to objects perceptible to the senses . b . Subjective description - referring to the feelings and the thoughts of the mind . Scott and ...
... language . I. Description is generally divided into two kinds : a . Objective description — referring to objects perceptible to the senses . b . Subjective description - referring to the feelings and the thoughts of the mind . Scott and ...
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... language . I. " Poetry , " says Prof. Bain , " agrees generically with painting , sculpture , architecture , and music ; and its specific mark is derived from the instrumentality employed . Painting is based on color , sculpture on form ...
... language . I. " Poetry , " says Prof. Bain , " agrees generically with painting , sculpture , architecture , and music ; and its specific mark is derived from the instrumentality employed . Painting is based on color , sculpture on form ...
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... language . " Taking this definition in connection with that of poetry as a synonym of verse , it will be seen how wide is the distinction between poetry in its essence and poetry in its form . Indeed , so thoroughly is excited and ...
... language . " Taking this definition in connection with that of poetry as a synonym of verse , it will be seen how wide is the distinction between poetry in its essence and poetry in its form . Indeed , so thoroughly is excited and ...
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Page 10 - Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And, sure, he is an honorable man. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause; What cause withholds you, then, to mourn for him ' O judgment ! thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason. Bear with me; My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause till it come back to me.
Page 292 - The rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the rose; The moon doth with delight Look round her when the heavens are bare; Waters on a starry night Are beautiful and fair; The sunshine is a glorious birth; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.
Page 300 - The clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober coloring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality; Another race hath been, and other palms are won. Thanks to the human heart by which we live, . Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears, — To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
Page 346 - Liberty first and Union afterwards ; but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable.
Page 297 - The years to bring the inevitable yoke. Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife? Full soon thy soul shall have her earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life ! IX.
Page 199 - Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault If Memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.
Page 413 - The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun; the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods, rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.
Page 71 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Page 202 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Page 293 - 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. The cataracts blow their trumpets from the steep; — No more shall grief of mine the season wrong...