Outlines of English Literature: With Readings |
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... sense all these and all other books are literature ; for the root meaning of the word is " letters , " and a letter means a character inscribed or rubbed upon a prepared surface . A series of letters intelligently arranged forms a book ...
... sense all these and all other books are literature ; for the root meaning of the word is " letters , " and a letter means a character inscribed or rubbed upon a prepared surface . A series of letters intelligently arranged forms a book ...
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... historian can write the facts of the Battle of Gettysburg ; but only a Lincoln can in noble words reveal the beauty and immortal meaning of that mighty conflict . To all such written works , which quicken our sense WHAT IS LITERATURE ? 3.
... historian can write the facts of the Battle of Gettysburg ; but only a Lincoln can in noble words reveal the beauty and immortal meaning of that mighty conflict . To all such written works , which quicken our sense WHAT IS LITERATURE ? 3.
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... sense of pleasure or a profound emotion of sympathy ; if it quickens your love of beauty or truth or goodness ; if it moves you to generous thought or noble action , then that book is , for you and for the time , a great book . If after ...
... sense of pleasure or a profound emotion of sympathy ; if it quickens your love of beauty or truth or goodness ; if it moves you to generous thought or noble action , then that book is , for you and for the time , a great book . If after ...
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... which belongs to the English people . In its broadest sense literature includes all writing , but as we commonly define the term it excludes works which aim at instruction , and includes only the WHAT IS LITERATURE ? 5.
... which belongs to the English people . In its broadest sense literature includes all writing , but as we commonly define the term it excludes works which aim at instruction , and includes only the WHAT IS LITERATURE ? 5.
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... sense of beauty . In a still narrower sense , when we study the history of literature we deal chiefly with the great , the enduring books , which may have been written in an elder or a latter day , but which have in them the magic of ...
... sense of beauty . In a still narrower sense , when we study the history of literature we deal chiefly with the great , the enduring books , which may have been written in an elder or a latter day , but which have in them the magic of ...
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Addison adventures appeared Arthur ballads beauty Ben Jonson Beowulf better Boffin Browning Burns Byron called Canterbury Tales Carlyle century characters Charles Lamb Chaucer Coleridge critics Cynewulf death Dickens drama dreams earth Elizabethan England English Literature English Poetry Essays Everyman's Library eyes Faery Queen famous father fiction French Revolution George Eliot gudesire hand heart heaven hero human humor interest Jane Austen Keats king literary lived London looked Lord matter Matthew Arnold Milton mind modern moral nature never night noble novelists novels play pleasure poems poet poor popular prose readers Redgauntlet reflected romance Ruskin satire Scott Shakespeare Shelley sing Sir Ector Sir Kay song sonnet soul spirit Standard English Classics story style sweet sword tale Tennyson Thackeray thee things thou thought verse Victorian Wegg words Wordsworth writing written wrote young
Popular passages
Page 126 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn. Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Page 169 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Page 278 - The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.
Page 250 - O love, they die in yon rich sky, They faint on hill or field or river; Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, And answer, echoes, answer, dying, dying, dying.
Page 122 - Mortals, that would follow me, Love virtue; she alone is free. She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her.
Page 250 - Thou wilt not leave us in the -dust: Thou madest man, he knows not why, He thinks he was not made to die; And thou hast made him : thou art just. Thou seemest human and divine, The highest, holiest manhood, thou : Our wills are ours, we know not how; Our wills are ours, to make them thine.
Page 60 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O, no ! it is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of...
Page 171 - Keen as are the arrows Of that silver sphere, Whose intense lamp narrows In the white dawn clear, Until we hardly see, — we feel that it is there. All the earth and air With thy voice is loud, As, when night is bare, From one lonely cloud The moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflowed.
Page 253 - for Aix is in sight!" "How they'll greet us!" — and all in a moment his roan Rolled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone; And there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news which alone could save Aix from her fate, With his nostrils like pits full of blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-sockets
Page 75 - Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven ; All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye.