Essays and Studies, Volume 8J. Murray, 1922 - English literature |
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... common opinion , maintained for several different reasons . One is psychological . The suffering of a wholly innocent person , it is said , can cause nothing but dis- tress to the reader . We turn away with instinctive aversion from ...
... common opinion , maintained for several different reasons . One is psychological . The suffering of a wholly innocent person , it is said , can cause nothing but dis- tress to the reader . We turn away with instinctive aversion from ...
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... common to all is the element of calamity and suffering ; and where these are present in literature tragedy may also be present . But there is not actual tragedy if such suffering falls upon a person of weak nature , who accepts it with ...
... common to all is the element of calamity and suffering ; and where these are present in literature tragedy may also be present . But there is not actual tragedy if such suffering falls upon a person of weak nature , who accepts it with ...
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... common in AS . Perhaps funta and floda may have been so , and possibly ora and ofer . But even in these cases synonymity is doubtful ; and I have not come across any other pair of words in the charters the synonymity of which may be ...
... common in AS . Perhaps funta and floda may have been so , and possibly ora and ofer . But even in these cases synonymity is doubtful ; and I have not come across any other pair of words in the charters the synonymity of which may be ...
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... common in the chalk districts ; not one of the great intermittent springs also found in chalk regions , but a perennial spring forming a large stream which may be even of the size of a river . The source of the Test at Overton ( Hants ) ...
... common in the chalk districts ; not one of the great intermittent springs also found in chalk regions , but a perennial spring forming a large stream which may be even of the size of a river . The source of the Test at Overton ( Hants ) ...
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... common in the chalk districts . I have seen such a stream running down a shallow valley in West Stratton ( Hants ) to a width of six feet and a depth of one foot . It runs at periods of heavy rain ; but it has never cut an actual ...
... common in the chalk districts . I have seen such a stream running down a shallow valley in West Stratton ( Hants ) to a width of six feet and a depth of one foot . It runs at periods of heavy rain ; but it has never cut an actual ...
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Page 13 - Hath seal'd thee for herself ; for thou hast been As one, in suffering all, that suffers nothing, A man that fortune's buffets and rewards Hast ta'en with equal thanks : and blest are those Whose blood and judgement are so well commingled. That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please.
Page 107 - There are in this loud stunning tide Of human care and crime, ;'-. With whom the melodies abide Of th' everlasting chime ; Who carry music in their heart Through dusky lane and wrangling mart, Plying their daily task with busier feet, Because their secret souls a holy strain repeat.
Page 13 - Know thus far forth. — By accident most strange, bountiful fortune, Now my dear lady,, hath mine enemies Brought to this shore : and by my prescience I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star ; whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop.
Page 102 - Hence in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore...
Page 99 - Who mourns for Adonais? Oh come forth Fond wretch! and know thyself and him aright. Clasp with thy panting soul the pendulous Earth; As from a centre, dart thy spirit's light Beyond all worlds, until its spacious might Satiate the void circumference: then shrink...
Page 95 - BOTH. We saw Thee in Thy balmy nest, Bright dawn of our eternal Day ! We saw Thine eyes break from their East, And chase the trembling shades away. We saw Thee : and we blest the sight, We saw Thee by Thine Own sweet light.
Page 137 - Essay on the Principles of Human Action : being an argument in favour of the Natural Disinterestedness of the Human Mind.
Page 143 - ... soul has indeed remained in its original bondage, dark, obscure, with longings infinite and unsatisfied ; my heart, shut up in the prison-house of this rude clay, has never found, nor will it ever find, a heart to speak to ; but that my understanding also did not remain dumb and brutish, or at length found a language to express itself, I owe to Coleridge. But this is not to my purpose.
Page 16 - Clarissa." " Not read -Clarissa!'" he cried out. "If you have once thoroughly entered on - Clarissa ' and are infected by it, you can't leave it. When I was in India I passed one hot season at the hills, and there were the Governor-General, and the Secretary of Government, and the Commander-in-Chicf, and their wives. I had - Clarissa...
Page 102 - His part, while the one Spirit's plastic stress Sweeps through the dull dense world, compelling there, All new successions to the forms they wear; Torturing th' unwilling dross that checks its flight To its own likeness, as each mass may bear; And bursting in its beauty and its might From trees and beasts and men into the Heaven's light.