The Torch: Eight Lectures on Race Power in Literature Delivered Before the Lowell Institute of Boston MCMIII |
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... appears in this eternal salvage stored up in a slowly per- fecting race , history through its length and breadth is a spectacle to appall and terrify the reason . The perpetual flux of time 66 ― ' Sceptres , tiaras , swords , and chains ...
... appears in this eternal salvage stored up in a slowly per- fecting race , history through its length and breadth is a spectacle to appall and terrify the reason . The perpetual flux of time 66 ― ' Sceptres , tiaras , swords , and chains ...
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... appears inceptively in “ Queen Mab " and ex- plicitly in " In Memoriam , " and many a minor poem of Tennyson , not the less great because minor in his work , in which alone the scientific spirit of the age has found utterance equal to ...
... appears inceptively in “ Queen Mab " and ex- plicitly in " In Memoriam , " and many a minor poem of Tennyson , not the less great because minor in his work , in which alone the scientific spirit of the age has found utterance equal to ...
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... appears in the interest in the common lot , and in that aspect of liberty which appears in the sense of the dignity of the individual . Burns , Scott , . Dickens illustrate the one ; Byron , Shelley and Carlyle the other . The ...
... appears in the interest in the common lot , and in that aspect of liberty which appears in the sense of the dignity of the individual . Burns , Scott , . Dickens illustrate the one ; Byron , Shelley and Carlyle the other . The ...
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... appears to put nature in the place of God , or Shelley love , or Keats beauty , they only affirm that phase c the divine which is nighest to their own apprehension , affection and delight . Their experi- ence of the divine governs and ...
... appears to put nature in the place of God , or Shelley love , or Keats beauty , they only affirm that phase c the divine which is nighest to their own apprehension , affection and delight . Their experi- ence of the divine governs and ...
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... appears to me , nevertheless , that history underlies race - literature in a far more profound and universal way . History is mortal : it dies . Yet it does not altogether die . Elements , features , fragments of it survive , and enter ...
... appears to me , nevertheless , that history underlies race - literature in a far more profound and universal way . History is mortal : it dies . Yet it does not altogether die . Elements , features , fragments of it survive , and enter ...
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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...