The Cambridge History of English Literature: The nineteenth century. ISir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller The University Press, 1915 - English literature |
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... least , is an artistic , if not psychological , failure , his personalities are rather loosely sketched ; in Rokeby , there is a much more elaborate indication of idiosyncrasies . It thus possesses a more pungent human interest than any ...
... least , is an artistic , if not psychological , failure , his personalities are rather loosely sketched ; in Rokeby , there is a much more elaborate indication of idiosyncrasies . It thus possesses a more pungent human interest than any ...
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... least one example in Donald Caird ; his Bonnie Dundee , Pibroch of Donald Dhu and Macgregor's Gathering are unsurpassed as spirited martial odes ; the mournful pathos of old age is finely expressed in The Sun upon the Weirdlaw Hill ...
... least one example in Donald Caird ; his Bonnie Dundee , Pibroch of Donald Dhu and Macgregor's Gathering are unsurpassed as spirited martial odes ; the mournful pathos of old age is finely expressed in The Sun upon the Weirdlaw Hill ...
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... least during his own generation , remained unchallenged , and , if , later , it was rivalled , has hardly yet been overthrown . romances , while originating in certain strong predilections specially fostered from his infancy ...
... least during his own generation , remained unchallenged , and , if , later , it was rivalled , has hardly yet been overthrown . romances , while originating in certain strong predilections specially fostered from his infancy ...
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... least equal pleasure , the places which had been distinguished by remarkable historical events ' ; and , though he modestly states that , while none delighted more than he in the general effect of picturesque scenery , he was unable ...
... least equal pleasure , the places which had been distinguished by remarkable historical events ' ; and , though he modestly states that , while none delighted more than he in the general effect of picturesque scenery , he was unable ...
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... least successful with his more morally correct and least eccentric personages . He specially fails to interest us in his lovers - perfectly proper but rather buckram young men , with merely average commonplace characteristics . Of ...
... least successful with his more morally correct and least eccentric personages . He specially fails to interest us in his lovers - perfectly proper but rather buckram young men , with merely average commonplace characteristics . Of ...
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Page 341 - The Missing Fragment of the Latin Translation of the Fourth Book of Ezra, discovered, and edited with an Introduction and Notes, and a facsimile of the MS., by ROBERT L.
Page 116 - My own dim life should teach me this, That life shall live for evermore, Else earth is darkness at the core, And dust and ashes all that is ; This round of green, this orb of flame, Fantastic beauty ; such as lurks In some wild Poet, when he works Without a conscience or an aim.
Page 237 - The work is rather too light, and bright, and sparkling; it wants shade; it wants to be stretched out here and there with a long Chapter of sense, if it could be had; if not, of solemn specious nonsense, about something unconnected with the Story; an Essay on Writing, a critique on Walter Scott, or the history of Buonaparte, or anything that would form a contrast, and bring the reader with increased delight to the playfulness and Epigrammatism of the general style.
Page 45 - The Giaour, the Bride of Abydos, the Corsair, Lara, the Siege of Corinth...
Page 105 - Having quitted the Borders, to seek new renown, Is coming, by long Quarto stages to Town : And beginning with ROKEBY (the job's sure to pay.) Means to do all the Gentlemen's Seats on the way. Now, the Scheme is (though none of our Hackneys can beat him) To start a fresh Poet through Highgate to meet him ; ' , Who, by means of quick proofs— no revises— long coaches — May do a few Villas, before Sc — TT approaches.
Page 29 - The disk of the sun became almost totally obscured ere he had altogether sunk below the horizon, and an early and lurid shade of darkness blotted the serene twilight of a summer evening.
Page 175 - I hate to see a load of bandboxes go along the street, and I hate to see a parcel of big words without anything in them.
Page 203 - When I heard of the death of Coleridge, it was without grief. It seemed to me that he long had been on the confines of the next world, — that he had a hunger for eternity. I grieved then that I could not grieve. But since, I feel how great a part he was of me. His great and dear spirit haunts me. I cannot think a thought, I cannot make a criticism on men or books, without an ineffectual turning and reference to him. He was the proof and touchstone of all my cogitations.
Page 2 - No funeral hearse crept more leisurely than did his landau up the Canongate or the Cowgate ; and not a queer tottering gable but recalled to him some long-buried memory of splendour or bloodshed, which, by a few words, he set before the hearer in the reality of life.