The Torch: Eight Lectures on Race Power in Literature Delivered Before the Lowell Institute of Boston MCMIII |
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... Renaissance , the Re- formation , the Revolution in turn flashed this unity forth , struggling to realize itself in the common civiliza- tion . The literature of Europe is the expression of this common genius the best that man has ...
... Renaissance , the Re- formation , the Revolution in turn flashed this unity forth , struggling to realize itself in the common civiliza- tion . The literature of Europe is the expression of this common genius the best that man has ...
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... Renaissance , similar styles , each departing from the common and habitual speech of the time , grew up , and in England you identify this mood of language in Eliza- beth's day as Euphuism . The phenomenon is common , and belongs to the ...
... Renaissance , similar styles , each departing from the common and habitual speech of the time , grew up , and in England you identify this mood of language in Eliza- beth's day as Euphuism . The phenomenon is common , and belongs to the ...
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... Renaissance when all things Greek revived , and Cal- deron , the great Spanish poet , treated some minor as- pects of it ; but , in and about the Revolution , it was handled repeatedly by great poets who strove to recast the story and ...
... Renaissance when all things Greek revived , and Cal- deron , the great Spanish poet , treated some minor as- pects of it ; but , in and about the Revolution , it was handled repeatedly by great poets who strove to recast the story and ...
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... Renaissance and Reformation and Rev- olution meet - there is the focus , for the time being , of the soul of man ; and it is at that point that genius devel- opes its transcendent power . Spenser was such a mind . I spoke in the first ...
... Renaissance and Reformation and Rev- olution meet - there is the focus , for the time being , of the soul of man ; and it is at that point that genius devel- opes its transcendent power . Spenser was such a mind . I spoke in the first ...
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... Renaissance , Ariosto , and Tasso , were a school for Spenser much as the Alexandrian poets had been for Virgil ; and as in Virgil mythology and Homeric heroism and the legend of the antique Italian land be- fore Rome blended in one ...
... Renaissance , Ariosto , and Tasso , were a school for Spenser much as the Alexandrian poets had been for Virgil ; and as in Virgil mythology and Homeric heroism and the legend of the antique Italian land be- fore Rome blended in one ...
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Page 175 - The floating Clouds their state shall lend To her ; for her the willow bend ; Nor shall she fail to see Even in the motions of the Storm Grace that shall mould the Maiden's form By silent sympathy.
Page 18 - Mysterious Night ! when our first Parent knew Thee from report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus with the host of heaven came; And lo, Creation widened in man's view.
Page 148 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head up-lift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Page 186 - Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no more.
Page 171 - That time is past, And all its aching joys are now no more, And all its dizzy raptures. Not for this Faint I, nor mourn nor murmur ; other gifts Have followed, for such loss, I would believe, Abundant recompense.
Page 18 - I remember, I remember Where I was used to swing, And thought the air must rush as fresh To swallows on the wing ; My spirit flew in feathers then That is so heavy now, And summer pools could hardly cool The fever on my brow. I remember, I remember...
Page 170 - And not a voice was idle : with the din Meanwhile the precipices rang aloud. The leafless trees and every icy crag Tinkled like iron ; while the distant hills Into the tumult sent an alien sound Of melancholy, not unnoticed ; while the stars Eastward were sparkling clear, and in the west The orange sky of evening died away.
Page 150 - On the other side, Satan, alarmed, Collecting all his might, dilated stood, Like Teneriff or Atlas, unremoved : His stature reached the sky, and on his crest Sat Horror plumed ; nor wanted in his grasp What seemed both spear and shield.
Page 168 - YE banks and braes and streams around The castle o' Montgomery, Green be your woods, and fair your flowers. Your waters never drumlie! There simmer first unfauld her robes, And there the langest tarry; For there I took the last fareweel O
Page 151 - So spake the cherub, and his grave rebuke Severe in youthful beauty, added grace Invincible: abashed the devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely, saw, and pined His loss; but chiefly to find here observed His lustre visibly impaired; yet seemed 850 Undaunted. If I must contend...