Life in Poetry: Law in Taste: Two Series of Lectures Delivered in Oxford, 1895-1900 |
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... play for his evil sentiments , are representatives of the authority of popular opinion . Critics of this stamp will also . с show themselves intolerant of such fundamental faults of taste as INAUGURAL 17 IN MATTERS OF TASTE.
... play for his evil sentiments , are representatives of the authority of popular opinion . Critics of this stamp will also . с show themselves intolerant of such fundamental faults of taste as INAUGURAL 17 IN MATTERS OF TASTE.
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... plays , and pictures , which men read , glance at , talk about , and forget its methods of swift intuition and general- isation are inadequate to estimate the work of a Raphael or a Milton . I think that from the facts I have attempted ...
... plays , and pictures , which men read , glance at , talk about , and forget its methods of swift intuition and general- isation are inadequate to estimate the work of a Raphael or a Milton . I think that from the facts I have attempted ...
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... play on ; Not to the sensual ear , but more endeared Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone . Fair youth , beneath the trees thou canst not leave Thy song , nor ever can these leaves be bare ; Bold lover , never , never canst thou kiss ...
... play on ; Not to the sensual ear , but more endeared Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone . Fair youth , beneath the trees thou canst not leave Thy song , nor ever can these leaves be bare ; Bold lover , never , never canst thou kiss ...
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... play , modelled after the Greek drama , with the accompaniment of a chorus . In the execution of this design he proceeded some way , and wrote , among other passages , Satan's speech to the Sun , which is now embodied in the Fourth Book ...
... play , modelled after the Greek drama , with the accompaniment of a chorus . In the execution of this design he proceeded some way , and wrote , among other passages , Satan's speech to the Sun , which is now embodied in the Fourth Book ...
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... play on some story as old and familiar as the Iliad , than to seek credit for originality by representing something ... plays on the popular mythology , while the Elizabethan poets took their plots , as a rule , from novels or histories ...
... play on some story as old and familiar as the Iliad , than to seek credit for originality by representing something ... plays on the popular mythology , while the Elizabethan poets took their plots , as a rule , from novels or histories ...
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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!