Countries of the Mind: Essays in Literary Criticism. 2d SerH. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1922 - 206 páginas |
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... thought to prove that he is lacking in sympathy , or even in common human kindness , the fact remains that compulsion has produced far more good literary work of every kind than the un- embarrassed pursuit of an artistic ideal has ever ...
... thought to prove that he is lacking in sympathy , or even in common human kindness , the fact remains that compulsion has produced far more good literary work of every kind than the un- embarrassed pursuit of an artistic ideal has ever ...
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... thought of love as a principle of order in the human world , which could be thwarted from its true purpose only by forces foreign to itself . Professor Herford concludes : - Shakespeare certainly did not , so far as we can judge ...
... thought of love as a principle of order in the human world , which could be thwarted from its true purpose only by forces foreign to itself . Professor Herford concludes : - Shakespeare certainly did not , so far as we can judge ...
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... thoughts are no subjects ; Intents but merely thoughts . ' It would be difficult to conceive anything more revolting . Dr Johnson's note on it is properly cynical , but it is too good - humoured . The lines contain a fierce and bitter ...
... thoughts are no subjects ; Intents but merely thoughts . ' It would be difficult to conceive anything more revolting . Dr Johnson's note on it is properly cynical , but it is too good - humoured . The lines contain a fierce and bitter ...
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... thought of men in battle . ' I tell thee , daughter , I sprang not more in joy at first hearing he was a man child ... thoughts of her silence thus revealed , she says no more until chattering Valeria , for all the world like one of the ...
... thought of men in battle . ' I tell thee , daughter , I sprang not more in joy at first hearing he was a man child ... thoughts of her silence thus revealed , she says no more until chattering Valeria , for all the world like one of the ...
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... thoughts , sold cheap what is most dear . ' The man who used that terrible phrase , who ' gored his own thoughts ' to wring shillings from the pockets of the greasy , grinning crowd in front of him , had no cause to love them ; and ...
... thoughts , sold cheap what is most dear . ' The man who used that terrible phrase , who ' gored his own thoughts ' to wring shillings from the pockets of the greasy , grinning crowd in front of him , had no cause to love them ; and ...
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Countries of the Mind: Essays in Literary Criticism, Volumen1 John Middleton Murry Vista completa - 1924 |
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achievement æsthetic Amiel Anatomy Antony and Cleopatra Arabia Deserta artist attitude Baudelaire Baudelaire's beauty believe Beyle born bourgeois Bouvard et Pécuchet Burton c'est called century Clare cœur Collins Collins's comedies Coriolanus critic Cymbeline decadence delight Dostoevsky dream emotion endured English eternal être expression eyes fact faith feel Flaubert Folio give happiness haunted heart hero homme human ideal imagination impulse instinct John Clare Keats kind knew Lady lines literary literature live lovers Madame Bovary melancholy mind moral nature never Oxford passage passion perceptions perfect perhaps phrase plays poem poet poet's poetic poetry reality recognised Remy de Gourmont Robert Burton romantic romanticism seems sense sensibility Shakespeare silence Sleep the Brave Sonnets soul spirit Stendhal strange style sweet symbol tell thee theme things Thomson thou tout Troilus and Cressida true truth universe Valeria Virgilia vision Volumnia whole words wounds writer yeux
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Página 25 - O ! wonder ! How many goodly creatures are there here ! How beauteous mankind is ! O brave new world, That has such people in't ! Pro.
Página 16 - What years, i' faith ? Vio. About your years, my lord. Duke. Too old, by heaven; let still the woman take An elder than herself ; so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart. For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn, Than women's are.
Página 91 - 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.
Página 68 - ... stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases. A good vomit, I confess, a virtuous herb, if it be well qualified, opportunely taken, and medicinally used ; but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health; hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul.
Página 175 - O Créateur ! peut-il exister des monstres aux yeux de Celui-là seul qui sait pourquoi ils existent, comment ils se sont faits et comment ils auraient pu ne pas se faire...
Página 95 - midst its dreary dells, Whose walls more awful nod By thy religious gleams. Or if chill blustering winds, or driving rain, Prevent my willing feet, be mine the hut, That from the mountain's side, Views wilds, and swelling floods, And hamlets brown, and dim-discovered spires, And hears their simple bell, and marks o'er all Thy dewy fingers draw The gradual dusky veil.
Página 133 - Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour. Let no night Seal thy sense in deathly slumber Till to delight Thou have paid thy utmost blessing; Since that all things thou wouldst praise Beauty took from those who loved them In other days.
Página 93 - How sleep the Brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there!
Página 91 - In vain for him the officious wife prepares The fire fair-blazing, and the vestment warm ; In vain his little children, peeping out Into the mingling storm, demand their sire, With tears of artless innocence. Alas ! Nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home.
Página 72 - Bisantinus prefers the smoke of juniper to melancholy persons, which is in great request with us at Oxford, to sweeten our chambers.