Life in Poetry: Law in Taste: Two Series of Lectures Delivered in Oxford, 1895-1900 |
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... character of the Founder of his Chair . But here too search is in vain of him little is known that is definite , nothing that is remarkable . Henry Birkhead must have been born in the first quarter of the seventeenth century , for he ...
... character of the Founder of his Chair . But here too search is in vain of him little is known that is definite , nothing that is remarkable . Henry Birkhead must have been born in the first quarter of the seventeenth century , for he ...
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... character of society . To treat these with easy tolerance is only a sign of social cowardice . A nation which has a just sense of its own greatness and liberty must also have a sense of what is ideally noble and beautiful , and must not ...
... character of society . To treat these with easy tolerance is only a sign of social cowardice . A nation which has a just sense of its own greatness and liberty must also have a sense of what is ideally noble and beautiful , and must not ...
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... character to the study of the classics in the English Universities since the days of Erasmus and Colet , of Cheke and Ascham . Our ideal of classical education differs alike from the æsthetic ideal of the Italian Humanists , who deified ...
... character to the study of the classics in the English Universities since the days of Erasmus and Colet , of Cheke and Ascham . Our ideal of classical education differs alike from the æsthetic ideal of the Italian Humanists , who deified ...
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... character with the kindred sympathy of freemen , we have familiarised ourselves for centuries with the principles that governed their imagination . We appreciate their singular felicity in the choice of subject , the chastened elegance ...
... character with the kindred sympathy of freemen , we have familiarised ourselves for centuries with the principles that governed their imagination . We appreciate their singular felicity in the choice of subject , the chastened elegance ...
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... character ; you will show each of them in his just propor- tions , and the place which he occupies in our literature as a whole ; how he was affected by , how he represented , and how he himself influenced , the movement of his own age ...
... character ; you will show each of them in his just propor- tions , and the place which he occupies in our literature as a whole ; how he was affected by , how he represented , and how he himself influenced , the movement of his own age ...
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Page 407 - Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music out. — • There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.
Page 353 - Purples the east: still govern thou my song, Urania, and fit audience find, though few. But drive far off the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus and his revellers, the race Of that wild rout that tore the Thracian bard In Rhodope, where woods and rocks had ears To rapture, till the savage clamour drown'd Both harp and voice; nor could the muse defend Her son.
Page 401 - I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me; and to me, High mountains are a feeling, but the hum Of human cities torture...
Page 360 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring Nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of Art. Art from that fund each just supply provides; Works without show, and without pomp presides: In some fair body thus th...
Page 54 - Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause ; 210 While wits and templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who but must laugh, if such a man there be ? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he...
Page 70 - Haec ubi dicta dedit, lacrimantem et multa volentem 790 dicere deseruit, tenuesque recessit in auras. Ter conatus ibi collo dare bracchia circum ; ter frustra comprensa manus effugit imago, par levibus ventis volucrique simillima somno.
Page 210 - And when the evening mist clothes the riverside with poetry, as with a veil, and the poor buildings lose themselves in the dim sky, and the tall chimneys become campanili, and the warehouses are palaces in the night, and the whole city hangs in the heavens, and fairy-land is before us...
Page 383 - Whose honours with increase of ages grow, As streams roll down, enlarging as they flow; Nations unborn your mighty names shall sound, And worlds applaud that must not yet be found!
Page 401 - Are not the mountains, waves, and skies, a part Of me and of my soul, as I of them ? Is not the love of these deep in my heart With a pure passion?
Page 405 - Cursed be the social wants that sin against the strength of youth! Cursed be the social lies that warp us from the living truth! Cursed be the sickly forms that err from honest Nature's rule! Cursed be the gold that gilds the straiten'd forehead of the fool!