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... less familiar work has been added a selec- tion from the criticism of Steele , Addison , and Pope in order that the survey might be more nearly complete . Essays displaying general theories and tendencies have been chosen rather than ...
... less familiar work has been added a selec- tion from the criticism of Steele , Addison , and Pope in order that the survey might be more nearly complete . Essays displaying general theories and tendencies have been chosen rather than ...
Page xx
... less symptomatic of popular taste than is some- times supposed . If we except those who read Spenser under compulsion in our schools and colleges and those who read him because they wish to be ' cultured ' , we should not find to - day ...
... less symptomatic of popular taste than is some- times supposed . If we except those who read Spenser under compulsion in our schools and colleges and those who read him because they wish to be ' cultured ' , we should not find to - day ...
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... less harmful to morals than realistic representations of amorous passion - a truth still unheeded by our censors official and unofficial . Of much greater value than either of these essays is that on the Grounds of Criticism . Much ...
... less harmful to morals than realistic representations of amorous passion - a truth still unheeded by our censors official and unofficial . Of much greater value than either of these essays is that on the Grounds of Criticism . Much ...
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... less to fear from hostility than from indifference . This stage foreshadows a new difficulty , no longer that of guarding against their too autocratic sway , but that of getting men to remember that something may be said for some of ...
... less to fear from hostility than from indifference . This stage foreshadows a new difficulty , no longer that of guarding against their too autocratic sway , but that of getting men to remember that something may be said for some of ...
Page xlii
... less degree both are there . It is merely a question of preponderance . The historian . can only say which tendency is ascendant in the majority at a given moment . So in the England of this period what we have called the classic ...
... less degree both are there . It is merely a question of preponderance . The historian . can only say which tendency is ascendant in the majority at a given moment . So in the England of this period what we have called the classic ...
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Page 173 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Page 179 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield, And what is else not to be overcome ; That glory never shall his wrath or might Extort from me.
Page 174 - Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine. Speak, ye who best can tell, ye sons of light, Angels, for ye behold him, and with songs And choral symphonies, day without night, Circle his throne rejoicing ; ye in heaven, On earth, join all ye creatures to extol Him first, Him last, Him midst, and without end.
Page 174 - Air, and ye elements, the eldest birth Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle, multiform ; and mix And nourish all things ; let your ceaseless change Vary to our great Maker still new praise.
Page 169 - Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but .the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased: now...
Page 173 - Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Page 225 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring Nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchang'd, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of Art. Art from that fund each just supply provides, Works without show, and without pomp presides: In some fair body thus th...
Page 175 - Join voices, all ye living souls : ye birds, That singing up to heaven-gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise. Ye that in waters glide, and ye that walk The earth, and stately tread or lowly creep; Witness if I be silent, morn or even, To hill or valley, fountain or fresh shade, Made vocal by my song, and taught his praise. Hail, universal lord, be bounteous still To give us only good ; and if the night Have gather'd aught of evil or conceal'd, Disperse it, as now light dispels...
Page 157 - And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.
Page 175 - Hail universal Lord, be bounteous still To give us only good ; and if the night Have gather'd aught of evil, or conceal'd, Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark ! So pray'd they innocent, and to their thoughts .Firm peace recover'd soon, and wonted calm.