Philosophy of English Literature: A Course of Lectures Delivered in the Lowell InstituteG. P. Putnam, 1874 - 318 páginas |
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... play ; the uprisings and downsittings , the incomings and outgoings of men and women . " * Thus English in character , Chaucer is the first national poet . This national force of the man is seen in many directions . His composition was ...
... play ; the uprisings and downsittings , the incomings and outgoings of men and women . " * Thus English in character , Chaucer is the first national poet . This national force of the man is seen in many directions . His composition was ...
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... play and illusion of a double meaning , when it cared little for the senti- ments involved . Moreover a predominant imagina- tion gave easy and perfect personification to ab- stract qualities , and Messrs . Do - well , Do - better and ...
... play and illusion of a double meaning , when it cared little for the senti- ments involved . Moreover a predominant imagina- tion gave easy and perfect personification to ab- stract qualities , and Messrs . Do - well , Do - better and ...
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... action , and from time to time give them the play of lifelike dia- logue . The dramatist moves exclusively in the vigorous elements of speech and action ; the nar- rator CHAUCER'S DRAMATIC POWER . 59 His Dramatic Power.
... action , and from time to time give them the play of lifelike dia- logue . The dramatist moves exclusively in the vigorous elements of speech and action ; the nar- rator CHAUCER'S DRAMATIC POWER . 59 His Dramatic Power.
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... play , with only such brief glances into their mysteries and woes as would allow him to return with unbroken spirits . His humor is a well - meaning , pleasant sprite , that can only be sad- dened for a moment by the flying shadow of ...
... play , with only such brief glances into their mysteries and woes as would allow him to return with unbroken spirits . His humor is a well - meaning , pleasant sprite , that can only be sad- dened for a moment by the flying shadow of ...
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... played by this impulse in all periods of progress . Religious activity is but the more intense play of the moral nature , its movement under the leading facts of our spiritual relations in life . A false relig- ion is the most fatal of ...
... played by this impulse in all periods of progress . Religious activity is but the more intense play of the moral nature , its movement under the leading facts of our spiritual relations in life . A false relig- ion is the most fatal of ...
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action Addison æsthetical allegory artistic beauty belief belonged bold Canterbury Tales cast character Chaucer chivalry classical close composition conflict constitutional Cowper creative period critical didactic direct drama Dryden earnest elements Elizabethan Elizabethan age Elizabethan era emotional England English literature English Poetry ethical excellence facts fancy favor feel force fourteenth century French fruits gathered gave genius give hold human humor ideas imagination impulse influence insight intel intellectual invention Johnson labor language later Latin less liberty light literary living lyrical poetry ment Milton mind moral nature Norman novel passing passions philosophy play poems poet poetic poetry political Pope popular present progress prose Puritans rank reform religion religious satire Saxon sentiment Shakespeare social society soul Spenser spirit strength style sympathy taste temper tendency thought tion truth tury vigorous virtue Voltaire Walter Scott Wicliffe words Wordsworth writers wrought
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Página 294 - Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from EXPERIENCE; in that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives itself.
Página 172 - It was said of Socrates, that he brought Philosophy down from Heaven to inhabit among Men ; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-tables, and in Coffee-houses.
Página 255 - Blessings be with them and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves and nobler cares — ' The poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays!
Página 159 - She comes ! she comes ! the sable throne behold Of Night primeval and of Chaos old ! Before her, fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sick'ning stars fade off th' ethereal plain ; As Argus
Página 205 - He sacrifices virtue to convenience, and is so much more careful to please than to instruct, that he seems to write without any moral purpose.
Página 294 - Our observation employed either about external sensible objects, or about the internal operations of our minds perceived and reflected on by ourselves, is that which supplies our understandings with all the materials of thinking. These two are the fountains of knowledge, from whence all the ideas we have, or can naturally have, do spring.
Página 304 - The intense view of these manifold contradictions and imperfections in human reason has so wrought upon me, and heated my brain, that I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another.
Página 201 - Sir, he was a scoundrel, and a coward : a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality ; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger after his death...
Página 84 - Commons, and from thence derives itself to a gallant bravery and well grounded contempt of their enemies, as if there were no small number of as great spirits among us as his was who when Rome was nigh...
Página 259 - It is an experiment on the temper of the public mind, as to how far a thirst for a happier condition of moral and political society survives, among the enlightened and refined, the tempests which have shaken the age in which we live.