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... action . Milton and Dante chose this spot , on which with almost creative power they might show to mankind worlds of their own , won from the void and formless Infinite , " and from which their own heroic spirits might be reflected back ...
... action . Milton and Dante chose this spot , on which with almost creative power they might show to mankind worlds of their own , won from the void and formless Infinite , " and from which their own heroic spirits might be reflected back ...
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... action , which shall stalk before the age , and by the contemplation of which our minds may be fired to nobler deeds . In considering this question , we shall endeavor to show what reasons there are for not expecting another great epic ...
... action , which shall stalk before the age , and by the contemplation of which our minds may be fired to nobler deeds . In considering this question , we shall endeavor to show what reasons there are for not expecting another great epic ...
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... and compre- hensive design is only equalled by the judgment manifested in confining the action to the busiest and most interesting period of the Trojan war , in thus uniting in his plan and bringing forward in his 6 EPIC POETRY .
... and compre- hensive design is only equalled by the judgment manifested in confining the action to the busiest and most interesting period of the Trojan war , in thus uniting in his plan and bringing forward in his 6 EPIC POETRY .
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... action and the objects associated with it ; but the interest of the drama consists in those mental struggles which pre- cede physical action , and to which in the progress of man the greatness of the other becomes subor- dinate . For as ...
... action and the objects associated with it ; but the interest of the drama consists in those mental struggles which pre- cede physical action , and to which in the progress of man the greatness of the other becomes subor- dinate . For as ...
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... actions lose their grandeur , except to the eye , for the soul looks upon them but as results of former battles won and lost , upon whose decision , and upon whose alone , its destiny hung . This is the mystery of that calm , more awful ...
... actions lose their grandeur , except to the eye , for the soul looks upon them but as results of former battles won and lost , upon whose decision , and upon whose alone , its destiny hung . This is the mystery of that calm , more awful ...
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admiration Aristotle beauty become beneath bloom bosom breast breath bright child childlike Christ Christian consciousness creations dæmon dark death Divine doth earth ence endeavor to show epic interest epic poem epic poetry eternal exhibit existence Father feel felt flower forever free agency gaze genius gift give Hamlet hand Harfleur hast hear heart heaven heroes heroic character heroic spirit Homer hour human mind Iliad impulse influence JAMES BROWN light live look Lucan Macbeth Menelaus Milton motive motley fool natural action never o'er objects onward ourselves outward Paradise Lost perfect play poet poet's Polonius possessed praise present rejoice rendered rest robes seems selfishness sense Shakspeare Shakspeare's mind song soul speak stand strange stream strongly sweet tell thee thine things thou thought tion tism tongue tree uncon unconscious utter Virgil visible voice wind wonder words
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Page 78 - I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.
Page 59 - The homely nurse doth all she can To make her foster-child, her inmate, Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the Child among his new-born blisses, A six years...
Page 26 - Many there be that complain of Divine Providence for suffering Adam to transgress; foolish tongues! When God gave him reason, he gave him freedom to choose, for reason is but choosing; he had been else a mere artificial Adam, such an Adam as he is in the motions.
Page 46 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, ^ That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Page 72 - There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them; who, in love and truth, Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth : Glad Hearts! without reproach or blot Who do thy work, and know it not: Oh!
Page 34 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Page 104 - Our revels now are ended... These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air, And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind: we are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep..
Page 92 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown ! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword : The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
Page 92 - Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what is mortal, and unsure To all that fortune, death and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell.
Page 24 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring, Or chasms, and watery depths ; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason...