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... song of thrushes. Nature is the true idealist. When she serves us best, when, on rare days, she speaks to the imagination, we feel that the huge heaven and earth are but a web drawn around us, that the light, skies and mountains are but ...
... song of thrushes. Nature is the true idealist. When she serves us best, when, on rare days, she speaks to the imagination, we feel that the huge heaven and earth are but a web drawn around us, that the light, skies and mountains are but ...
Page 37
... songs, and he will not teach Malthusianism. Poetry is the gai science. The trait and test of the poet is that he builds, adds and affirms. The critic destroys: the poet says nothing but what helps somebody; let others be distracted with ...
... songs, and he will not teach Malthusianism. Poetry is the gai science. The trait and test of the poet is that he builds, adds and affirms. The critic destroys: the poet says nothing but what helps somebody; let others be distracted with ...
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... songs, into some of the realities. Socrates, the Indian teachers of the Maia, the Bibles of the nations, Shakspeare, Milton, Hafiz, Ossian, the Welsh Bards;— these all deal with Nature and history as means and symbols, and not as ends ...
... songs, into some of the realities. Socrates, the Indian teachers of the Maia, the Bibles of the nations, Shakspeare, Milton, Hafiz, Ossian, the Welsh Bards;— these all deal with Nature and history as means and symbols, and not as ends ...
Page 46
... song. Sailors can work better for their ya-hea've—o. Soldiers can march better and fight better for the drum and trumpet. Metre begins with pulse-beat, and the length of lines in songs and poems is determined by the inhalation and ...
... song. Sailors can work better for their ya-hea've—o. Soldiers can march better and fight better for the drum and trumpet. Metre begins with pulse-beat, and the length of lines in songs and poems is determined by the inhalation and ...
Page 48
... songs and ballads the refrain skilfully used, and deriving some novelty or better sense in each of many verses : — " Buslt thee, busk thee, my bonny bonny bride, Buslt thee, buslt thee, my winsome marrow." HAMILTON. Of course rhyme ...
... songs and ballads the refrain skilfully used, and deriving some novelty or better sense in each of many verses : — " Buslt thee, busk thee, my bonny bonny bride, Buslt thee, buslt thee, my winsome marrow." HAMILTON. Of course rhyme ...
Contents
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ELOQUENCE | 118 |
RESOURCES | 137 |
THE COMIC | 172 |
PROGRESS OF CULTURE | 205 |
PERSIAN POETRY | 235 |
IMMORTALITY | 321 |
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