Lectures on the British Poets, Volume 1J.F. Shaw, 1857 - 408 pagina's |
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Pagina viii
... BYRON . A catholic taste in literature - Difficulties of a course of critical lectures- Southey and Byron - The spirit of criticism the spirit of charity - Rogers's plea for Byron's memory - Popularity of his Poetry- " English Bards and ...
... BYRON . A catholic taste in literature - Difficulties of a course of critical lectures- Southey and Byron - The spirit of criticism the spirit of charity - Rogers's plea for Byron's memory - Popularity of his Poetry- " English Bards and ...
Pagina 4
... Byron unquestionably possessed . The domain of Parnas- sus is not so narrow as to be susceptible of any such appropriation . The sovereignty of even Homer or Shakspeare could hold no exclusive usurpation . The sacred mount is covered ...
... Byron unquestionably possessed . The domain of Parnas- sus is not so narrow as to be susceptible of any such appropriation . The sovereignty of even Homer or Shakspeare could hold no exclusive usurpation . The sacred mount is covered ...
Pagina 76
... Byron in the first books of " Childe Harold . " It may also be traced to the instinctive disgust with the fashionable style of the pastoral poetry in vogue throughout Europe , in which the thoughts and the expressions of courtiers and ...
... Byron in the first books of " Childe Harold . " It may also be traced to the instinctive disgust with the fashionable style of the pastoral poetry in vogue throughout Europe , in which the thoughts and the expressions of courtiers and ...
Pagina 107
... deeply versed in the early English drama . " After all , " is his remark , " what Lord Byron says of Junius is true concerning the object to whom Shak- speare's sonnets are principally addressed : " - " I've an hypothesis , — ' t is quite.
... deeply versed in the early English drama . " After all , " is his remark , " what Lord Byron says of Junius is true concerning the object to whom Shak- speare's sonnets are principally addressed : " - " I've an hypothesis , — ' t is quite.
Pagina 235
... Byron , and Wordsworth . The ranks of the poets of the nine- teenth century have been already thinned by death . Of the five names just repeated but two survive , and only one in the unimpaired posses- sion of his genius . That one has ...
... Byron , and Wordsworth . The ranks of the poets of the nine- teenth century have been already thinned by death . Of the five names just repeated but two survive , and only one in the unimpaired posses- sion of his genius . That one has ...
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Pagina 373 - IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration...
Pagina 163 - To ALTHEA FROM PRISON WHEN Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates ; When I lie tangled in her hair And fetter'd to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty.
Pagina 198 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike...
Pagina 108 - Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
Pagina 368 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Pagina 332 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Pagina 25 - These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the inspired gift of God, rarely bestowed, but yet to some (though most abuse) in every nation; and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune...
Pagina 406 - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases.
Pagina 288 - THE OLD FAMILIAR FACES I have had playmates, I have had companions, In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. I have been laughing, I have been carousing, Drinking late, sitting late, with my bosom cronies; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
Pagina 276 - I pass, like night, from land to land; I have strange power of speech; That moment that his face I see, I know the man that must hear me: To him my tale I teach.