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Page 126 - ... the ear; find it fired again at you in a whole broadside; or find it pass into congenerous sounds, one liquid or labial melting away into another. And you will find another and much stranger circumstance. Literature is written by and for two senses: a sort of internal ear, quick to perceive " unheard melodies "; and the eye, which directs the pen and deciphers the printed phrase.
Page 140 - For in wealth, good sense, and closeness of structure no other of the languages at this day spoken deserves to be compared with it...
Page 102 - In all arts it is the tendency of those who are ungrown to confuse the expression of intense feeling with the intense expression of feeling — which last is all the world will long listen to." Shakspere, Milton, Keats are masters of concentrated, intensest expression: their verse, at its best, is structural as an oak. Those of us who have read with keen momentary enjoyment thousands of pages of the "New Verse," are frequently surprised to find how little of it stamps itself upon the memory.
Page 140 - a veritable power of expression, such as perhaps never stood at the command of any other language of men," he goes on to say, ".Its highly spiritual genius, and wonderfully happy development and condition, have been the result of a surprisingly intimate union of the two noblest languages in modern Europe, the Teutonic and the Romance.