An Old Castle and Other EssaysMacmillan, 1922 - Всего страниц: 395 |
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... charm of its language and of the characters enthralls us . Still less do I agree that Sterne is " sentimentalism incarnate . " But these are small and possibly private objections . Almost without exception , Winchester keeps the broad ...
... charm of its language and of the characters enthralls us . Still less do I agree that Sterne is " sentimentalism incarnate . " But these are small and possibly private objections . Almost without exception , Winchester keeps the broad ...
Стр. xvi
... charm is clear and pithy meaning . And the matter of which this poetry is made up , if it be neither novel nor moving , has at least that first mark of classic literature , universality . And when critics plague us with ecstasy over the ...
... charm is clear and pithy meaning . And the matter of which this poetry is made up , if it be neither novel nor moving , has at least that first mark of classic literature , universality . And when critics plague us with ecstasy over the ...
Стр. xvii
... charm . Thus defined , literature is obviously the best interpreter of life - the life of the individual man and the life of historical periods . For the temper of a man depends not merely nor principally upon what he thinks , but upon ...
... charm . Thus defined , literature is obviously the best interpreter of life - the life of the individual man and the life of historical periods . For the temper of a man depends not merely nor principally upon what he thinks , but upon ...
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... charm was it that won for this man , wherever he went , the admiring love of princes , of scholars , of sol- diers , of peasants ? It was his Christian scholarship that won the heart of the saintly Huguenot Languet , " who daily lived ...
... charm was it that won for this man , wherever he went , the admiring love of princes , of scholars , of sol- diers , of peasants ? It was his Christian scholarship that won the heart of the saintly Huguenot Languet , " who daily lived ...
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... charm of his face . His best portrait was that drawn by an obscure anonymous writer just after his death , in the oft - quoted lines : A sweet attractive kinde of grace , A full assurance given by lookes , Continuall comfort in a face ...
... charm of his face . His best portrait was that drawn by an obscure anonymous writer just after his death , in the oft - quoted lines : A sweet attractive kinde of grace , A full assurance given by lookes , Continuall comfort in a face ...
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Стр. 106 - When daffodils begin to peer, With heigh ! the doxy over the dale, Why, then comes in the sweet o' the year; For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale. The white sheet bleaching on the hedge, With heigh ! the sweet birds, O, how they sing! Doth set my pugging tooth on edge ; For a quart of ale is a dish for a king. The lark, that...
Стр. 47 - Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, — The seasons...
Стр. 89 - Yare, yare, good Iras; quick. — Methinks, I hear Antony call; I see him rouse himself To praise my noble act; I hear him mock The luck of Caesar, which the gods give men To excuse their after wrath: Husband, I come: Now to that name my courage prove my title ! I am fire, and air; my other elements I give to baser life.
Стр. 39 - It was a lover and his lass, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, That o'er the green corn-field did pass In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding : Sweet lovers love the spring.
Стр. 110 - Even here undone ! I was not much afeard ; for once or twice I was about to speak and tell him plainly, The selfsame sun that shines upon his court Hides not his visage from our cottage but Looks on alike.
Стр. 325 - GROW old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made: Our times are in his hand Who saith, "A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!
Стр. 108 - I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; Pray so; and for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too. When you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that ; move still, still so, and own No other function.
Стр. 60 - Hero had turned nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night; for, good youth, he went but forth to wash him in the Hellespont and being taken with the cramp was drowned; and the foolish chroniclers of that age found it was — Hero of Sestos. But these are all lies. Men have died from time to time and worms have eaten them. but not for love.
Стр. 247 - O' clod or stane, Adorns the histie stibble-field, Unseen, alane. There, in thy scanty mantle clad, Thy snawie bosom sun-ward spread, Thou lifts thy unassuming head In humble guise ; But now the share uptears thy bed, And low thou lies ! Such is the fate of artless maid, Sweet flow'ret of the rural shade ! By love's simplicity betray'd, And guileless trust, Till she, like thee, all soil'd, is laid Low i
Стр. 89 - With thy sharp teeth this knot intrinsicate Of life at once untie : poor venomous fool, Be angry, and dispatch.