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... actual life , is so commanding , that prominence must be given to them above all other kinds of human feeling , pleasurable or painful . To present a suitable object to either of these , is to make certain of a warm response in almost ...
... actual life , is so commanding , that prominence must be given to them above all other kinds of human feeling , pleasurable or painful . To present a suitable object to either of these , is to make certain of a warm response in almost ...
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... actual life , is so commanding , that prominence must be given to them above all other kinds of human feeling , pleasurable or painful . To present a suitable object to either of these , is to make certain of a warm response in almost ...
... actual life , is so commanding , that prominence must be given to them above all other kinds of human feeling , pleasurable or painful . To present a suitable object to either of these , is to make certain of a warm response in almost ...
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... actual help that it affords to the literary student . It is inevitable that , in a work containing some hundreds of critical decisions on the merits of the greatest authors that the world has seen , many of these decisions will be ...
... actual help that it affords to the literary student . It is inevitable that , in a work containing some hundreds of critical decisions on the merits of the greatest authors that the world has seen , many of these decisions will be ...
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... to itself , based on a wide survey of the actual examples . Prose Fiction , in like manner , is a vast subject , even standing alone . The citation of illustrative passages , indispensable to the elucidation of these themes , makes their.
... to itself , based on a wide survey of the actual examples . Prose Fiction , in like manner , is a vast subject , even standing alone . The citation of illustrative passages , indispensable to the elucidation of these themes , makes their.
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... actual experience improved upon ; ( 2 ) delinea- tions out of all respect to actuality , ... 3. Conditions requisite : —I . The emotions appealed to must be powerful ; II . The manner of appeal must be adequate , ... 4. Limitations ...
... actual experience improved upon ; ( 2 ) delinea- tions out of all respect to actuality , ... 3. Conditions requisite : —I . The emotions appealed to must be powerful ; II . The manner of appeal must be adequate , ... 4. Limitations ...
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Page 81 - His house was known to all the vagrant train. He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain ; The long-remembered beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast.
Page 198 - WE watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life . Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied, — We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died.
Page 170 - O Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood...
Page 81 - And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain by turns dismayed, The reverend champion stood. At his control Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise.
Page 19 - But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began...
Page 190 - 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 127 - Thou mayst prove false; at lovers' perjuries, They say, Jove laughs. O, gentle Romeo, If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully : Or, if thou think'st I am too quickly won, I'll frown, and be perverse, and say thee nay, So thou wilt woo ; but else, not for the world. In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond ; And therefore thou mayst think my 'havior light ; But trust me, gentleman, I'll prove more true Than those that have more cunning to be strange.
Page 10 - HOW doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people ! How is she become as a widow ! she that was great among the nations, And princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!
Page 89 - Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks ! rage ! blow ! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks! You sulphurous and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white head ! And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world ! Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once That make ingrateful man ! Fool.
Page 161 - I heard the bell toll'd' on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away, And, turning from my nursery window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu ! But was it such ? — It was.