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Page iv
... less because of its content than be- cause of its form , and it will generally be found that students are prepared to appreciate fine thoughts before they are able to understand grace or beauty of form in literature . And certainly , if ...
... less because of its content than be- cause of its form , and it will generally be found that students are prepared to appreciate fine thoughts before they are able to understand grace or beauty of form in literature . And certainly , if ...
Page xii
... less accurately , like Latin i . THE ANCREN RIWLE ( p . 2 ) , as its name indicates , is a treatise for the guidance and instruction of some nuns . We learn from the book itself that it was written , at their special request , for three ...
... less accurately , like Latin i . THE ANCREN RIWLE ( p . 2 ) , as its name indicates , is a treatise for the guidance and instruction of some nuns . We learn from the book itself that it was written , at their special request , for three ...
Page 52
... less delightful in conversation , than needful for devotion , and about twenty specified shepherds , in whom ( some for exercises , and some for eclogues ) he taketh greater recreation . 4 " And now you know as much as myself : wherein ...
... less delightful in conversation , than needful for devotion , and about twenty specified shepherds , in whom ( some for exercises , and some for eclogues ) he taketh greater recreation . 4 " And now you know as much as myself : wherein ...
Page 54
... less easy yet a more profitable way in regard of the end we propose . Lest therefore any man should marvel whereunto all these things tend , the drift and purpose of all is this , even to show in what manner , as every good and perfect ...
... less easy yet a more profitable way in regard of the end we propose . Lest therefore any man should marvel whereunto all these things tend , the drift and purpose of all is this , even to show in what manner , as every good and perfect ...
Page 55
... less pertinent , when the question is about laws for human actions , but that in those very actions which most spiritually and supernaturally concern men the rules and axioms of natural operations have their force . What can be more ...
... less pertinent , when the question is about laws for human actions , but that in those very actions which most spiritually and supernaturally concern men the rules and axioms of natural operations have their force . What can be more ...
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Page 274 - 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. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in — glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendour and joy.
Page 57 - Wherefore, that here we may briefly end, of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 95 - No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
Page 128 - As therefore the state of man now is; what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian.
Page 298 - The principal object, then, proposed in these Poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as was possible in a selection of language really used by men, and, at the same time, to throw over them a certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect...
Page 121 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother-dialect only.
Page 94 - Which they thought a malevolent speech. I had not told posterity this, but for their ignorance, who chose that circumstance to commend their friend by, wherein he most faulted; and to justify mine own candour: for I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was (indeed) honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions...
Page 317 - In this idea originated the plan of the " Lyrical Ballads ;" in which it was agreed that my endeavours should be directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least romantic ; yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
Page 320 - The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other, according to their relative worth and dignity. He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses, each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which we have exclusively appropriated the name of imagination.
Page 298 - ... above all, to make these incidents and situations interesting by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature: chiefly, as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement.