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Page 38
... taken for granted that the intention of the poet is to conceal thought , and the game is for the reader to find it out . We are hunting for hid- den meanings , and we greet one another with the grim salutation of the creatures in the ...
... taken for granted that the intention of the poet is to conceal thought , and the game is for the reader to find it out . We are hunting for hid- den meanings , and we greet one another with the grim salutation of the creatures in the ...
Page 44
... . The poet speaks a word , and Presto ! change ! We are transported into a new land , and our eyes are " baptized into the grace and privilege of see- ing . " Many have taken in hand to write 44 THE ENJOYMENT OF POETRY.
... . The poet speaks a word , and Presto ! change ! We are transported into a new land , and our eyes are " baptized into the grace and privilege of see- ing . " Many have taken in hand to write 44 THE ENJOYMENT OF POETRY.
Page 45
Samuel McChord Crothers. ing . " Many have taken in hand to write de- scriptions of spring ; and some few painstaking persons have nerved themselves to read what has been written . I turn to the prologue of the " Canterbury Tales ; " it ...
Samuel McChord Crothers. ing . " Many have taken in hand to write de- scriptions of spring ; and some few painstaking persons have nerved themselves to read what has been written . I turn to the prologue of the " Canterbury Tales ; " it ...
Page 72
... taken too seriously does not imply that it is either unreal or unimportant : it only means that it is not to be taken that way . There is , for example , a pickaninny on a Southern plantation . The anthropologist mea- sures his skull ...
... taken too seriously does not imply that it is either unreal or unimportant : it only means that it is not to be taken that way . There is , for example , a pickaninny on a Southern plantation . The anthropologist mea- sures his skull ...
Page 88
... taken for granted . The stranger does not see the serious background of sober thought and genuine admiration , into which the amus- ing figures suddenly intrude . The frontiersman - would see no point in a story that might 88 THE ...
... taken for granted . The stranger does not see the serious background of sober thought and genuine admiration , into which the amus- ing figures suddenly intrude . The frontiersman - would see no point in a story that might 88 THE ...
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Page 50 - Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
Page 198 - Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.
Page 299 - They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand; the gate With dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms. Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide.
Page 45 - Yet each to keep and all, retrievements out of the night, The song, the wondrous chant of the gray-brown bird, And the tallying chant, the echo arous'd in my soul, With the lustrous and drooping star with the countenance full of woe, With the holders holding my hand nearing the call of the bird, Comrades mine and I in the midst, and their memory ever to keep...
Page 38 - THE blessed damozel leaned out From the gold bar of Heaven ; Her eyes were deeper than the depth Of waters stilled at even ; She had three lilies in her hand, And the stars in her hair were seven.
Page 190 - And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant...
Page 296 - Good and evil, we know, in the field of this world, grow up together almost inseparably ; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil...
Page 193 - And four great zones of sculpture, set betwixt With many a mystic symbol, gird the hall: And in the lowest beasts are slaying men, And in the second men are slaying beasts, And on the third are warriors, perfect men, And on the fourth are men with growing wings...
Page 297 - That virtue, therefore, which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure...
Page 127 - All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt diversified by faith, For one of faith diversified by doubt : We called the chess-board white, - we call it black. 'Well...