Poems and Essays, Volume 2Chapman and Hall, 1860 |
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Pagina 16
... action at all ! States of feeling , existing moods , quiescence ; this is his natural ground . His is not the vis tragica . He has pathos , he has feeling ; but his is not an intense and pas- sionate nature ; nor , with one or two ...
... action at all ! States of feeling , existing moods , quiescence ; this is his natural ground . His is not the vis tragica . He has pathos , he has feeling ; but his is not an intense and pas- sionate nature ; nor , with one or two ...
Pagina 42
... action of men . The Day in its hotness , The strife with the palm ; The Night in its silence , The Stars in their calm . " But though in his art Mr. Arnold is Greek , the thought and general feeling of his pieces are tinged with a more ...
... action of men . The Day in its hotness , The strife with the palm ; The Night in its silence , The Stars in their calm . " But though in his art Mr. Arnold is Greek , the thought and general feeling of his pieces are tinged with a more ...
Pagina 46
... is a little too much of it . The poem is too long for the action : but throughout the diction is stately and sustained , and the ornament and imagery rich , and in keeping with it . Yet 46 THE CLASSICAL SCHOOL OF ENGLISH POETRY .
... is a little too much of it . The poem is too long for the action : but throughout the diction is stately and sustained , and the ornament and imagery rich , and in keeping with it . Yet 46 THE CLASSICAL SCHOOL OF ENGLISH POETRY .
Pagina 47
... action . It is more like a fine carving than a good picture . One merit it has which is very rarely to be found in its author . It is conceived as a whole and executed as a whole , a poem -not a piece of joinery . We wish Mr. Arnold ...
... action . It is more like a fine carving than a good picture . One merit it has which is very rarely to be found in its author . It is conceived as a whole and executed as a whole , a poem -not a piece of joinery . We wish Mr. Arnold ...
Pagina 49
... action . This Mr. Arnold thinks its highest glory . He quotes Aristotle ( as con- clusively as a lawyer does Coke upon Littleton ) , to prove that our love of poetry is based on the pleasure we take in any imitation or representation ...
... action . This Mr. Arnold thinks its highest glory . He quotes Aristotle ( as con- clusively as a lawyer does Coke upon Littleton ) , to prove that our love of poetry is based on the pleasure we take in any imitation or representation ...
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
affections artist Aurora Leigh beauty Ben Jonson Bulwer character characteristic Charlotte Brontë charm child common Crabbe doubt dramatic Edwin Morris English Eugene Aram expression external eyes fact false fancy feeling fiction Foe's genius George Cruikshank ghost give Goethe Greek hand harmony heart higher highest human idea imagination impression influence insight instincts intellect interest Jane Eyre lady least less lives look matter MATTHEW ARNOLD meaning Merope mind Miss Brontë modern Moll Flanders moral nature ness never novels passion perhaps phontes picture pleasure poem poet poetic poetry Polyphontes racter reader reality RICHARD HOLT HUTTON Robinson Crusoe Rogers scarcely seems sense social sort soul spirit story strong taste tells Tennyson Thackeray Thackeray's things thou thought tion true truth verse vivid whole WILLIAM CALDWELL ROSCOE woman women words Wordsworth write
Populaire passages
Pagina 7 - The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story : The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Pagina 459 - The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament; From haunted spring and dale Edged with poplar pale The parting Genius is with sighing sent; With flower-inwoven tresses torn The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn.
Pagina 7 - COURAGE !" he said, and pointed toward the land, " This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon." In the afternoon they came unto a land, In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream.
Pagina 372 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Pagina 7 - The dawn, the dawn,' and died away; And East and West, without a breath, Mixt their dim lights, like life and death, To broaden into boundless day.
Pagina 7 - Remorsefully regarded thro' his tears, And would have spoken, but he found not words; Then took with care, and kneeling on one knee, O'er both his shoulders drew the languid hands, And rising bore him thro