Essays and Studies, Volume 8J. Murray, 1922 - English literature |
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... A. H. CRUICKSHANK . IV . A CONTEMPORARY LIGHT UPON JOHN DONNE . JOHN SAMPSON . V. A BUNDLE OF BALLADS . GEO . NEILSON . VI . THE 1604 TEXT OF MARLOWE'S DOCTOR FAUSTUS . PERCY SIMPSON . CONTENTS OF VOL . VIII I. TRAGEDY • PAGE 9.
... A. H. CRUICKSHANK . IV . A CONTEMPORARY LIGHT UPON JOHN DONNE . JOHN SAMPSON . V. A BUNDLE OF BALLADS . GEO . NEILSON . VI . THE 1604 TEXT OF MARLOWE'S DOCTOR FAUSTUS . PERCY SIMPSON . CONTENTS OF VOL . VIII I. TRAGEDY • PAGE 9.
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... light , even when the poet is considering only the artistic treatment of his material . He distrusted the criticism of tragedy which reduces every- thing to moral lessons , even when the lesson is one of great retribution for great ...
... light , even when the poet is considering only the artistic treatment of his material . He distrusted the criticism of tragedy which reduces every- thing to moral lessons , even when the lesson is one of great retribution for great ...
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... , Wilts , and Worcestershire . 3 Kemble's index is very incomplete , so much so that it would , for example , throw little light on the use of haga . In two it is the word gemare , ' boundary IN THE ANGLO - SAXON CHARTERS 57.
... , Wilts , and Worcestershire . 3 Kemble's index is very incomplete , so much so that it would , for example , throw little light on the use of haga . In two it is the word gemare , ' boundary IN THE ANGLO - SAXON CHARTERS 57.
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... light at the end of his course . His serene gladness falls short of mystical rapture . The charm of the most beau- tiful and natural of his lyrics , the Easter Song , I got me flowers to straw Thy way , I got me boughs off many a tree ...
... light at the end of his course . His serene gladness falls short of mystical rapture . The charm of the most beau- tiful and natural of his lyrics , the Easter Song , I got me flowers to straw Thy way , I got me boughs off many a tree ...
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... light ' , of which Time is the vast shadow , moving within its circle . The habitation of the saints is the world of light , from which their bright memories shine through gloom and mist like stars . In the hush of early morning , when ...
... light ' , of which Time is the vast shadow , moving within its circle . The habitation of the saints is the world of light , from which their bright memories shine through gloom and mist like stars . In the hush of early morning , when ...
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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.