The Afternoon Lectures on Literature and Art: Delivered in the Theatre of the Museum of Industry, S. Stephen's Green, Dublin, in April and May, 1865 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 70
Page 23
... thought of betimes , what a pleasure to have listened really to a chorus from the Antigone , or to one of the sweet songs of Sion ? For had not these Greeks and Hebrews souls replete with melody ? and is not the human voice the oldest ...
... thought of betimes , what a pleasure to have listened really to a chorus from the Antigone , or to one of the sweet songs of Sion ? For had not these Greeks and Hebrews souls replete with melody ? and is not the human voice the oldest ...
Page 37
... thought with which it is in contact at home , it often seeks help and guidance abroad , or participates in a general ... thought plainly marked on our litera- ture , that even then they are mingled with the traces of foreign influence ...
... thought with which it is in contact at home , it often seeks help and guidance abroad , or participates in a general ... thought plainly marked on our litera- ture , that even then they are mingled with the traces of foreign influence ...
Page 38
... thought which our literature at those periods reflects . Many interesting questions arise in reference to this foreign influence . Under what circumstances does it act most strongly ? Does it tend to increase or decrease with the ...
... thought which our literature at those periods reflects . Many interesting questions arise in reference to this foreign influence . Under what circumstances does it act most strongly ? Does it tend to increase or decrease with the ...
Page 42
... thoughts of all , and kindled in every finer spirit a deep thirst for fame . Fame , too , was ready to proclaim the founder of English literature ; for then first , Eng- land , conscious of herself , could take pride in him as her own ...
... thoughts of all , and kindled in every finer spirit a deep thirst for fame . Fame , too , was ready to proclaim the founder of English literature ; for then first , Eng- land , conscious of herself , could take pride in him as her own ...
Page 44
... thought only in connection with terror and desolation . The Troubadour poetry may indeed have derived the great artifice and complexity of its versification from Arabian verse , but not that principle of rhythmical harmony and rhyme ...
... thought only in connection with terror and desolation . The Troubadour poetry may indeed have derived the great artifice and complexity of its versification from Arabian verse , but not that principle of rhythmical harmony and rhyme ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
16 Illustrations Adelaide Anne Procter Afternoon Lectures alliteration ancient Antique calf artistic beauty Berkeley Berkeley's Bishop Book Calf antique century character Chaucer Christian Church classical cloth Cloyne College Coloured contains Crown 8vo decorative art Dublin England English genius English language English literature English poetry engravings Europe Faery Queene Fcap Feap feeling foreign influence gilt edges give Greek Holy honour human imitation intellectual Italy language late Latin literary Lord Memoir Milton mind modern moral morocco nation native nature never object original ornamental perhaps period Petrarch Piers Piers Plowman Pilgrim's Progress Poems poet poetic poetry Post 8vo Prayers produced prose racter revised rhyme romance Royal Saxon School Second Edition sense Series Sermons Spenser spirit style Tasso taste tell Thomas Roscoe Thucydides tion Tobias Smollett Translated truth University verse vols W. F. Hook W. H. Bartlett words writings
Popular passages
Page 215 - Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a creature Moving about in worlds not realized, High instincts before which our mortal nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised...
Page 137 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her siren daughters...
Page 147 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Page 146 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?
Page 112 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres. To hear the sea-maid's music.
Page 145 - It is true no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss; and revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse.
Page 145 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys" a good book kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the Earth ; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Page 130 - It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time, be so little read. As compositions, they deserve the attention of every man who wishes to become acquainted with the full power of the English language. They abound with passages compared with which the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance.
Page 145 - We should be wary therefore what persecution we raise against the living labours of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books ; since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdom...
Page 59 - Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry " Hold, hold !