The Warner Library, Volume 25Charles Dudley Warner, John William Cunliffe, Ashley Horace Thorndike, Harry Morgan Ayres, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer Warner Library Company, 1917 - Literature |
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Page 14974
... LYRIC , 700-500 B.C. CRITICAL ESSAY , by H. Rushton Fairclough Tyrtæus : Marching Song ; Elegy Mimnermus : Old Age Archilochus : Epigrams ; Faith ; On Equanimity Callistratus : On Harmodius and Aristogeiton Hybrias : Soldiers ' Song ...
... LYRIC , 700-500 B.C. CRITICAL ESSAY , by H. Rushton Fairclough Tyrtæus : Marching Song ; Elegy Mimnermus : Old Age Archilochus : Epigrams ; Faith ; On Equanimity Callistratus : On Harmodius and Aristogeiton Hybrias : Soldiers ' Song ...
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... lyric verse except the Calvinistic hymn . Nevertheless the Puritan did not succeed in eradicating poetry from his nature . Of course , poetry was planted there too deep even for his theological grub - hooks to root it out . Though ...
... lyric verse except the Calvinistic hymn . Nevertheless the Puritan did not succeed in eradicating poetry from his nature . Of course , poetry was planted there too deep even for his theological grub - hooks to root it out . Though ...
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... lyric of civil and military heroism . We may be altogether sure that no gen- uine development of literary taste among the American people in any period of our future history can result in serious misfortune to this particular specimen ...
... lyric of civil and military heroism . We may be altogether sure that no gen- uine development of literary taste among the American people in any period of our future history can result in serious misfortune to this particular specimen ...
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... lyric poetry Greece was no less great ; but of the ancient lyric writers the modern world is for certain reasons compar- atively ignorant . The Iliad and Odyssey have come down to us in their entirety . In the case of the dramatists ...
... lyric poetry Greece was no less great ; but of the ancient lyric writers the modern world is for certain reasons compar- atively ignorant . The Iliad and Odyssey have come down to us in their entirety . In the case of the dramatists ...
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... lyric verse has dis- appeared . The main answer is to be found in the essential character of that poetry . It was song - poetry ; i . e . , poetry composed for singing , the soul of which vanished when the music passed away . After the ...
... lyric verse has dis- appeared . The main answer is to be found in the essential character of that poetry . It was song - poetry ; i . e . , poetry composed for singing , the soul of which vanished when the music passed away . After the ...
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Alcman Alekséi Aleksandrovitch Álvaro Peña Anna Anthony Trollope Archilochus arms artistic asked Bacchylides ballad Bazarov beautiful began Bice bishop booth-keeper Bulgarian called Crawley cried dance dark death dithyramb doctor door earth Edenhall eyes face father Fedya feel felt fire Giorgio Vasari girl give Greek hair hand head heart heaven honor Ibycus King Kostya laughed light literary literature live looked Lope de Vega lord Lukerya lyric lyric poetry Matterhorn Mimnermus mind mother nature never night once passed Paul Verlaine peasant Pepita Pierre Pindar poems poet poetry poor Proudie replied round Sancho Savonarola seemed silence sing Slope smile song soul spirit Sportsman's Sketches Stesichorus stood suddenly sweet sword tell thee things thou thought Tolstoy took Tsanko turned Vassily Ivanovitch verse Villon Virgil voice wife words young youth zaptié Zeus
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Page 15555 - Go, LOVELY rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts, where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died.
Page 15241 - Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? May I not wash in them, and be clean?
Page 15612 - There sit by him, and eat my meat, There see the sun both rise and set : There bid good morning to next day, There meditate my time away : And angle on, and beg to have A quiet passage to a welcome grave.
Page 15260 - They are all gone into the world of light ! And I alone sit lingering here ; Their very memory is fair and bright, And my sad thoughts doth clear.
Page 15609 - ... which broke their waves, and turned them into foam : and sometimes I beguiled time by viewing the harmless lambs, some leaping securely in the cool shade, whilst others sported themselves in the cheerful sun ; and saw others craving comfort from the swollen udders of their bleating dams. As I thus sat...
Page 15259 - But ah ! my soul with too much stay Is drunk, and staggers in the way! Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move; And when this dust falls to the urn, In that state I came, return.
Page 15159 - For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes The still sad music of humanity ; Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts : a sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused, Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, And the round ocean and the living air, And the blue sky, and in the mind of man...
Page 15261 - Either disperse these mists, which blot and fill My perspective still as they pass ; Or else remove me hence unto that hill, Where I shall need no glass.
Page 15566 - He had a dark brown adonis, and a cloak of black cloth, with a train of five yards. Attending the funeral of a father could not be pleasant : his leg extremely bad, yet forced to stand upon it near two hours ; his face bloated and distorted with his late paralytic stroke, which has affected too one of his eyes, and placed over the mouth of the vault, into which, in all probability, he must himself so soon descend ; think how unpleasant a situation ! He bore it all with a firm and unaffected countenance.
Page 15573 - ... these visions. Master Damon writes a song and invites Miss Chloe to enjoy the cool of the evening, and the deuce a bit have we of any such thing as a cool evening. Zephyr is a northeast wind, that makes Damon button up to the chin, and pinches Chloe's nose till it is red and blue; and then they cry this is a bad summer — as if we ever had any other! The best sun we have, is made of Newcastle coal, and I am determined never to reckon upon any other.