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... original authors , to whom plagiarism is a sin . With such prepossessions he inquires whether David or some other person ' wrote ' a particular psalm , whether Homer is the ' author ' of the Iliad . It does not occur to him that writing ...
... original authors , to whom plagiarism is a sin . With such prepossessions he inquires whether David or some other person ' wrote ' a particular psalm , whether Homer is the ' author ' of the Iliad . It does not occur to him that writing ...
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... original gives it , " We are God's poem . " As God is the supreme Maker and Creator of the universe , and we are what God has created and made , so the poet is the creator of an imaginary universe , which he fills with imagined ...
... original gives it , " We are God's poem . " As God is the supreme Maker and Creator of the universe , and we are what God has created and made , so the poet is the creator of an imaginary universe , which he fills with imagined ...
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... original ballad dance has here become dominant : drama is acted poetry . If the music per- sists , it makes the modification of drama we call opera . The third element of the ballad dance , speech , is not absolutely essential to drama ...
... original ballad dance has here become dominant : drama is acted poetry . If the music per- sists , it makes the modification of drama we call opera . The third element of the ballad dance , speech , is not absolutely essential to drama ...
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... original ' nucleus . ' If we suppose that this critical analysis has been executed with absolute correctness - and this is supposing a great deal - still the alleged nucleus comes to us with no greater literary authority than the later ...
... original ' nucleus . ' If we suppose that this critical analysis has been executed with absolute correctness - and this is supposing a great deal - still the alleged nucleus comes to us with no greater literary authority than the later ...
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... original oral poetry , we have seen , was addressed to the public as a whole ; the passage from oral to written limits literature to a reading class , with a correspondent narrowing of interest , since literature must reflect the ...
... original oral poetry , we have seen , was addressed to the public as a whole ; the passage from oral to written limits literature to a reading class , with a correspondent narrowing of interest , since literature must reflect the ...
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Page 11 - And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her, with timbrels, and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously : the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Page 67 - The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, Make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted, And every mountain and hill shall be made low: And the crooked shall be made straight, And the rough places plain: And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, And all flesh shall see it together: For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Page 481 - Hence, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born In Stygian cave forlorn 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy ! Find out some uncouth cell, Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night-raven sings ; There, under ebon shades and low-browed rocks, As ragged as thy locks, In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell.
Page 419 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray 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...
Page 210 - There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.
Page 199 - Eagle screams, and passes by. 'Dear lost companions of my tuneful art, 'Dear, as the light that visits these sad eyes, 'Dear, as the ruddy drops that warm my heart, 'Ye died amidst your dying country's cries — 'No more I weep. They do not sleep. 'On yonder cliffs, a...
Page 426 - Reign thou over us. But the olive tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by me they honour God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees ? And the trees said to the fig tree, Come thou, and reign over us.
Page 478 - To th' instruments divine respondence meet: The silver sounding instruments did meet With the base murmure of the waters fall; The waters fall with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call: The gentle warbling wind low answered to all.
Page 68 - The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, And all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field : The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: . Because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: Surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: But the word of our God shall stand for ever.
Page 297 - By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.