English Composition and Rhetoric, Volume 1D. Appleton, 1888 - English language |
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... usual ending of a Romantic plot in the union of the lovers is a tolerated ideal , because it gratifies a strong emotion , and because the happiness of wedded love is a splendid possibility , occasionally realized . There is a basis of ...
... usual ending of a Romantic plot in the union of the lovers is a tolerated ideal , because it gratifies a strong emotion , and because the happiness of wedded love is a splendid possibility , occasionally realized . There is a basis of ...
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... usual to represent this distinction as one of the points in the comparison of Homer and Virgil . Among moderns , Shakespeare is pre - eminent in Originality , while occasionally deficient in the arts that con- stitute Elegance . Milton ...
... usual to represent this distinction as one of the points in the comparison of Homer and Virgil . Among moderns , Shakespeare is pre - eminent in Originality , while occasionally deficient in the arts that con- stitute Elegance . Milton ...
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Alexander Bain. REQUISITES OF A GOOD PLOT . 47 ( 4 ) It is usual to supply fluctuating indications , whereby the probable issue is made to flit about in different direc- tions . In this way the pleasurable excitement is prolonged and ...
Alexander Bain. REQUISITES OF A GOOD PLOT . 47 ( 4 ) It is usual to supply fluctuating indications , whereby the probable issue is made to flit about in different direc- tions . In this way the pleasurable excitement is prolonged and ...
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... surroundings of human situations . The last is the more usual , but there is no difference between them in the conditions for securing the desired effect . STRENGTH . Strength , or the Sublime , as a 54 AIDS TO QUALITIES - SUBJECTS .
... surroundings of human situations . The last is the more usual , but there is no difference between them in the conditions for securing the desired effect . STRENGTH . Strength , or the Sublime , as a 54 AIDS TO QUALITIES - SUBJECTS .
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... usual self . ( 3 ) Greatest of all is the surrender of self to the welfare of others . Self - sacrifice is moral heroism , and is applauded in every age . It is the feature that gives nobility to courage in war . It makes martyrdom ...
... usual self . ( 3 ) Greatest of all is the surrender of self to the welfare of others . Self - sacrifice is moral heroism , and is applauded in every age . It is the feature that gives nobility to courage in war . It makes martyrdom ...
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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.