Essays and PoemsCharles C. Little and James Brown, 1839 - 175 Seiten |
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... perfect visible manifestation of the heroic character than can be again presented to the eyes of man . In a philosophical analysis of such a poem as the Iliad or Odyssey , made with reference to its epic peculiarities , there is great ...
... perfect visible manifestation of the heroic character than can be again presented to the eyes of man . In a philosophical analysis of such a poem as the Iliad or Odyssey , made with reference to its epic peculiarities , there is great ...
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... of the epic . We have made this analysis of the Iliad , to show in what way all things combined in Homer's age to assist him in giving a perfect outward manifestation of the heroic character of his times . He wrote EPIC POETRY .
... of the epic . We have made this analysis of the Iliad , to show in what way all things combined in Homer's age to assist him in giving a perfect outward manifestation of the heroic character of his times . He wrote EPIC POETRY .
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... perfect embodying of the perfect outward manifestation of the heroic character of that period . The poetry of the senses , the reflection merely of nature and of heroic achievements , is not suscepti- ble of indefinite progress ; it ...
... perfect embodying of the perfect outward manifestation of the heroic character of that period . The poetry of the senses , the reflection merely of nature and of heroic achievements , is not suscepti- ble of indefinite progress ; it ...
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... perfect , and possesses the most interest , only in the childhood of the human mind . In the poetry of the Hindoos , of the Israelites , as well as of the Greeks , the epic is the prevailing element . But that page of the heroic ...
... perfect , and possesses the most interest , only in the childhood of the human mind . In the poetry of the Hindoos , of the Israelites , as well as of the Greeks , the epic is the prevailing element . But that page of the heroic ...
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... perfect union and relationship has been consummated . With other writers , at our very first acquaintance with their thoughts , we recog- nise our relationship with the swiftness of intuition ; but who of us , however familiar he may ...
... perfect union and relationship has been consummated . With other writers , at our very first acquaintance with their thoughts , we recog- nise our relationship with the swiftness of intuition ; but who of us , however familiar he may ...
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admiration Aristotle beauty become beneath bloom bosom breast breath bright child childlike Christ Christian consciousness creations dæmon dark death Divine doth earth ence endeavor to show epic interest epic poem epic poetry eternal exhibit existence Father feel felt flower forever free agency gaze genius gift give Hamlet hand Harfleur hast hear heart heaven heroes heroic character heroic spirit Homer hour human mind Iliad impulse influence JAMES BROWN light live look Lucan Macbeth Menelaus Milton motive motley fool natural action never o'er objects onward ourselves outward Paradise Lost perfect play poet poet's Polonius possessed praise present rejoice rendered rest robes seems selfishness sense Shakspeare Shakspeare's mind song soul speak stand strange stream strongly sweet tell thee thine things thou thought tion tism tongue tree uncon unconscious utter Virgil visible voice wind wonder words
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Seite 78 - I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.
Seite 59 - The homely nurse doth all she can To make her foster-child, her inmate, Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the Child among his new-born blisses, A six years...
Seite 26 - Many there be that complain of Divine Providence for suffering Adam to transgress; foolish tongues! When God gave him reason, he gave him freedom to choose, for reason is but choosing; he had been else a mere artificial Adam, such an Adam as he is in the motions.
Seite 46 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, ^ That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Seite 72 - There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them; who, in love and truth, Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth : Glad Hearts! without reproach or blot Who do thy work, and know it not: Oh!
Seite 34 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Seite 104 - Our revels now are ended... These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air, And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind: we are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep..
Seite 92 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown ! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword : The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
Seite 92 - Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what is mortal, and unsure To all that fortune, death and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell.
Seite 24 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring, Or chasms, and watery depths ; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason...