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... question exactly how far to go in discussion of individual literary works , which have an interest of their own , in offering these as elucidation of literary theory . It would be possible to write a work which would be wholly theoretic ...
... question exactly how far to go in discussion of individual literary works , which have an interest of their own , in offering these as elucidation of literary theory . It would be possible to write a work which would be wholly theoretic ...
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... questions as they arise in the light of the study as a whole . Literary study remains a country without a map . Hence the unity of literature becomes the first postulate for sound literary study . In addition to this consideration ...
... questions as they arise in the light of the study as a whole . Literary study remains a country without a map . Hence the unity of literature becomes the first postulate for sound literary study . In addition to this consideration ...
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... question is not one of logic , which is concerned with the possible modes of thinking , but with the habits of thought which , at particular times , are found to pre- vail . The modern observer does not think in the scheme of Bacon or ...
... question is not one of logic , which is concerned with the possible modes of thinking , but with the habits of thought which , at particular times , are found to pre- vail . The modern observer does not think in the scheme of Bacon or ...
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... question by dogmatic pronouncements as to what good taste requires . A theory of Hamlet will be welcomed because it ... questions are questions to be decided upon evidence . Of course , in this as in other studies there is abun- dant ...
... question by dogmatic pronouncements as to what good taste requires . A theory of Hamlet will be welcomed because it ... questions are questions to be decided upon evidence . Of course , in this as in other studies there is abun- dant ...
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... question whether , when poetry is expressed in verse , the verse may not react on the creation , and modify it in some way . If this be so , then we must seek some modifying terms to indicate two different types of poetry . We are none ...
... question whether , when poetry is expressed in verse , the verse may not react on the creation , and modify it in some way . If this be so , then we must seek some modifying terms to indicate two different types of poetry . We are none ...
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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...
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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.
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Page 297 - By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.