An Old Castle and Other EssaysMacmillan, 1922 - 395 pagina's |
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Pagina vii
... feeling for what is essential and characteristic in an author's work . " Hun- dreds can testify to the success with which he did this in the lecture - room or through the printed page . The range of these essays indicates in some ...
... feeling for what is essential and characteristic in an author's work . " Hun- dreds can testify to the success with which he did this in the lecture - room or through the printed page . The range of these essays indicates in some ...
Pagina viii
... feeling , and to feel while thinking , and he taught them to love literature while teach- ing them to know it . " And whatever his audience , he always made the individuals that composed it feel that they were one with him in knowledge ...
... feeling , and to feel while thinking , and he taught them to love literature while teach- ing them to know it . " And whatever his audience , he always made the individuals that composed it feel that they were one with him in knowledge ...
Pagina xvii
... feels ; the character of an age depends not merely upon its permanent intellectual qualities , but upon its dom- inant tone of feeling . It is not too much to say that if we wish to know any life outside the little circle of our own ...
... feels ; the character of an age depends not merely upon its permanent intellectual qualities , but upon its dom- inant tone of feeling . It is not too much to say that if we wish to know any life outside the little circle of our own ...
Pagina 19
... feeling that it is the genuine love of a genuine man that is written here , that Sidney , as he says in his first sonnet , looked in his heart and wrote . And let it be said in charitable memory of Penelope Devereux , that there is ...
... feeling that it is the genuine love of a genuine man that is written here , that Sidney , as he says in his first sonnet , looked in his heart and wrote . And let it be said in charitable memory of Penelope Devereux , that there is ...
Pagina 21
... feels a stain like a wound , he sank under the storm of undeserved opprobrium , and died only four months after his marriage , in the arms of his wife . " The grief of his unfortunate love , " says his secretary , " did bring him to his ...
... feels a stain like a wound , he sank under the storm of undeserved opprobrium , and died only four months after his marriage , in the arms of his wife . " The grief of his unfortunate love , " says his secretary , " did bring him to his ...
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
admiration Alcott Antony Antony and Cleopatra beauty Ben Jonson better Bolingbroke Browning Browning's Burns Cæsar called century character charm Church Cleopatra Clough comedy death Duchess Duke emotion England English eyes father feeling forest of Arden friends grace heart Henry Sidney Hermione human humor imagination interest Ireland Irish Jonathan Swift kind King knew lady Leontes literary literature lived London look Lord Lord Bolingbroke lover Mary Sidney misanthropy moral nature never noble once Orlando party passion Penelope Devereux Perdita Philip Sidney pity play Plutarch poem poet poetry political prose Queen Anne remember Robert Browning Robert Burns Rosalind Ruskin satire seems sense sentiment Shakespeare Sidney Sordello soul spirit story sure sweet Swift temper thee things thou thought tion Tory truth verse Whigs Winter's Tale woman words writing wrote young
Populaire passages
Pagina 106 - When daffodils begin to peer, With heigh ! the doxy over the dale, Why, then comes in the sweet o' the year; For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale. The white sheet bleaching on the hedge, With heigh ! the sweet birds, O, how they sing! Doth set my pugging tooth on edge ; For a quart of ale is a dish for a king. The lark, that...
Pagina 47 - Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, — The seasons...
Pagina 89 - Yare, yare, good Iras; quick. — Methinks, I hear Antony call; I see him rouse himself To praise my noble act; I hear him mock The luck of Caesar, which the gods give men To excuse their after wrath: Husband, I come: Now to that name my courage prove my title ! I am fire, and air; my other elements I give to baser life.
Pagina 39 - It was a lover and his lass, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, That o'er the green corn-field did pass In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding : Sweet lovers love the spring.
Pagina 110 - Even here undone ! I was not much afeard ; for once or twice I was about to speak and tell him plainly, The selfsame sun that shines upon his court Hides not his visage from our cottage but Looks on alike.
Pagina 325 - GROW old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made: Our times are in his hand Who saith, "A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!
Pagina 108 - I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; Pray so; and for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too. When you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that ; move still, still so, and own No other function.
Pagina 60 - Hero had turned nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night; for, good youth, he went but forth to wash him in the Hellespont and being taken with the cramp was drowned; and the foolish chroniclers of that age found it was — Hero of Sestos. But these are all lies. Men have died from time to time and worms have eaten them. but not for love.
Pagina 247 - O' clod or stane, Adorns the histie stibble-field, Unseen, alane. There, in thy scanty mantle clad, Thy snawie bosom sun-ward spread, Thou lifts thy unassuming head In humble guise ; But now the share uptears thy bed, And low thou lies ! Such is the fate of artless maid, Sweet flow'ret of the rural shade ! By love's simplicity betray'd, And guileless trust, Till she, like thee, all soil'd, is laid Low i
Pagina 89 - With thy sharp teeth this knot intrinsicate Of life at once untie : poor venomous fool, Be angry, and dispatch.