Literary Interpretations, Or, A Guide to the Teaching and Reading of Literature: Writings by Lowell, Hawthorne, Tennyson, and Emerson |
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... meaning . It will be helpful at this point for the reader to compare the definitions of poetry and literature from various sources , and to note that in the closest statement of either the other is included . It is well to use the words ...
... meaning . It will be helpful at this point for the reader to compare the definitions of poetry and literature from various sources , and to note that in the closest statement of either the other is included . It is well to use the words ...
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... meaning , or the best part of it , when it gets beyond the sight of the parish stee- ple , is not what I understand by literature . To tell you when you cannot fully taste a book that it is be- cause it is too thoroughly national is to ...
... meaning , or the best part of it , when it gets beyond the sight of the parish stee- ple , is not what I understand by literature . To tell you when you cannot fully taste a book that it is be- cause it is too thoroughly national is to ...
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... meaning only through the spir- itual . Emerson said that natural history is for the pur- pose of supernatural history . The poet communes with the infinite spiritual life through the forms in which that life realizes itself . To the ...
... meaning only through the spir- itual . Emerson said that natural history is for the pur- pose of supernatural history . The poet communes with the infinite spiritual life through the forms in which that life realizes itself . To the ...
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... meaning of the image presented to the imagination . Some themes cannot be presented without such hints , and many people do not take the hint without considerable definiteness of statement . There is no means other than language by ...
... meaning of the image presented to the imagination . Some themes cannot be presented without such hints , and many people do not take the hint without considerable definiteness of statement . There is no means other than language by ...
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... meaning , they would still be preserved for the music alone . There is much of senseless rhyme and jingle and melody which finds a permanent place in the literature of a people . In this way language as a material instru- ment of ...
... meaning , they would still be preserved for the music alone . There is much of senseless rhyme and jingle and melody which finds a permanent place in the literature of a people . In this way language as a material instru- ment of ...
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Page 74 - The Holy Supper is kept, indeed, In whatso we share with another's need; Not what we give, but what we share, ! For the gift without the giver is bare; Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.
Page 149 - To be, or not to be, — that is the question : — Whether 't is nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them ? — to die...
Page 67 - As Sir Launfal mused with a downcast face, A light shone round about the place ; The leper no longer crouched at his side, But stood before him glorified, Shining and tall and fair and straight As the pillar that stood by the Beautiful Gate, — Himself the Gate whereby men can Enter the temple of God in Man.
Page 74 - When he girt his young life up in gilded mail And set forth in search of the Holy Grail. The heart within him was ashes and dust; He parted in twain his single crust, He broke the ice on the streamlet's brink And gave the leper to eat and drink...
Page 36 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears ; soft stillness, and the night, Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica : Look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines' of bright gold; There's not the smallest orb, which thou behold'st, But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-ey'd cherubins : Such harmony is in immortal souls ; But, whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close...
Page 57 - OVER his keys the musing organist, Beginning doubtfully and far away, First lets his fingers wander as they list. And builds a bridge from Dreamland for his lay : Then, as the touch of his loved instrument Gives hope and fervor, nearer draws his theme, First guessed by faint auroral flushes sent Along the wavering vista of his dream.
Page 174 - A man Caesar is born, and for ages after we have a Roman Empire. Christ is born, and millions of minds so grow and cleave to his genius that he is confounded with virtue and the possible of man. An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, Monachism, of the Hermit Antony; the Reformation, of Luther; Quakerism, of Fox; Methodism, of Wesley; Abolition, of Clarkson. Scipio, Milton called "the height of Rome;" and all history resolves itself very easily into t biography of a few stout and...
Page 150 - O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter!
Page 170 - For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure. And therefore a man must know how to estimate a sour face. The by-standers look askance on him in the public street or in the friend's parlor.
Page 121 - ... blessing to his neighbor. Almost involuntarily, too, he had become a preacher. The pure and high simplicity of his thought, which, as one of its manifestations, took shape in the good deeds that dropped silently from his hand, flowed also forth in speech. He uttered truths that wrought upon and moulded the lives of those who heard him.