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... " In commenting on this passage , we ought to remember that Scott and Byron were colossal figures , so big that no eye could miss them ; and that the reason why Kipling has enjoyed sub- stantial rewards WILLIAM WATSON 45.
... " In commenting on this passage , we ought to remember that Scott and Byron were colossal figures , so big that no eye could miss them ; and that the reason why Kipling has enjoyed sub- stantial rewards WILLIAM WATSON 45.
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... remember years ago , being in the town of Offenburg in Germany , and seeing at a distance a colossal statue , feeling some sur- prise when I discovered that the monument was erected to Sir Francis Drake , " in recognition of his having ...
... remember years ago , being in the town of Offenburg in Germany , and seeing at a distance a colossal statue , feeling some sur- prise when I discovered that the monument was erected to Sir Francis Drake , " in recognition of his having ...
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... remember that A Shropshire Lad was published before the first volume of Mr. Hardy's verse appeared , and that the lyrical element displayed is natural rather than acquired . Though at the time of its publication the author was thirty ...
... remember that A Shropshire Lad was published before the first volume of Mr. Hardy's verse appeared , and that the lyrical element displayed is natural rather than acquired . Though at the time of its publication the author was thirty ...
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... remember also that in these two poems - so interesting to compare in so many dif- ferent ways Tennyson tried to elevate a homely theme into " poetry " ; whereas Mr. Masefield finds the truest poetry in the bare facts of life and feeling ...
... remember also that in these two poems - so interesting to compare in so many dif- ferent ways Tennyson tried to elevate a homely theme into " poetry " ; whereas Mr. Masefield finds the truest poetry in the bare facts of life and feeling ...
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... remembers the torture inflicted on women in the good - old - times , when they were strapped to posts on the flats at low tide , and allowed to watch the cruel slowness of approaching death . The same theme , with an even more terrible ...
... remembers the torture inflicted on women in the good - old - times , when they were strapped to posts on the flats at low tide , and allowed to watch the cruel slowness of approaching death . The same theme , with an even more terrible ...
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Страница 185 - Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.
Страница 52 - LOVELIEST of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more. 3 And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow.
Страница 114 - Oh, is the water sweet and cool, Gentle and brown, above the pool? And laughs the immortal river still Under the mill, under the mill?
Страница 69 - ... because in that condition of life our elementary feelings coexist in a state of greater simplicity and consequently may be more accurately contemplated and more forcibly communicated; because the manners of rural life germinate from those elementary feelings and from the necessary character of rural occupations are more easily comprehended and are more durable; and, lastly, because in that condition the passions of men are incorporated with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature.
Страница 68 - As if he had been reading in a book: And now a stranger's privilege I took; And, drawing to his side, to him did say, 'This morning gives us promise of a glorious day.
Страница 160 - Even if we grant that exalted poetry can be kept successful by itself, the strong things of life are needed in poetry also, to show that what is exalted, or tender, is not made by feeble blood. It may almost be said that before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal.
Страница 153 - Unlike the rhetoricians, who get a confident voice from remembering the crowd they have won or may win, we...
Страница 205 - Booth led boldly with his big bass drum — (Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?) The Saints smiled gravely and they said: "He's come." (Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb...
Страница 50 - Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.
Страница 51 - Out of a stem that scored the hand I wrung it in a weary land. But take it: if the smack is sour, The better for the embittered hour; It should do good to heart and head When your soul is in my soul's stead; And I will friend you, if I may, In the dark and cloudy day.