Interpretations of Literature, Volume 2Dodd, Mead, 1915 Lectures to his students while he "held the chair of English literature in the University of Tokyo from 1896 to 1902"--Confer Introduction. |
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... less the sixteenth century was a great intellectual age , and it understood much more of Shakespeare than later genera- tions proved themselves able to do . In the most degenerate period of English Literature , the period of the ...
... less the sixteenth century was a great intellectual age , and it understood much more of Shakespeare than later genera- tions proved themselves able to do . In the most degenerate period of English Literature , the period of the ...
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... less real do you find them . Some- times they actually melt into each other like clouds , like va- pours . They are phantoms . After having read all the plays of Ben Jonson , all the plays of Webster , all the plays of Beaumont and ...
... less real do you find them . Some- times they actually melt into each other like clouds , like va- pours . They are phantoms . After having read all the plays of Ben Jonson , all the plays of Webster , all the plays of Beaumont and ...
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... less to objectify it . Imagine , then , the gigantic power of the brain that could create thou- sands of different moods as expressed by hundreds of differ- ent characters of every age and sex . The problem of Shakespeare is therefore a ...
... less to objectify it . Imagine , then , the gigantic power of the brain that could create thou- sands of different moods as expressed by hundreds of differ- ent characters of every age and sex . The problem of Shakespeare is therefore a ...
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... less than thirty - seven plays constitute his known work ; besides which we have reason to suppose that he had some share in the writing or shaping of other plays . But of these thirty - seven , each is a masterpiece which still ex ...
... less than thirty - seven plays constitute his known work ; besides which we have reason to suppose that he had some share in the writing or shaping of other plays . But of these thirty - seven , each is a masterpiece which still ex ...
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... less relaxed . Now there are two ways in which a young man can face this dan- ger successfully . One is to impose upon himself habits of absolute austerity , to deny himself everything , to pursue one purpose only and never to swerve ...
... less relaxed . Now there are two ways in which a young man can face this dan- ger successfully . One is to impose upon himself habits of absolute austerity , to deny himself everything , to pursue one purpose only and never to swerve ...
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Page 318 - The sea is calm to-night. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits ; — on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone ; the cliffs of England stand, Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.
Page 124 - TO HELEN Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome.
Page 272 - HE clasps the crag with crooked hands ; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring'd with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls ; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls.
Page 238 - Philomel, with melody Sing in our sweet lullaby; Lulla, lulla, lullaby ; lulla, lulla, lullaby ; Never harm, nor spell nor charm, Come our lovely lady nigh; So, good night, with lullaby.
Page 126 - Hear the sledges with the bells Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
Page 238 - Everything did banish moan, Save the nightingale alone: She, poor bird, as all forlorn, Lean'd her breast up-till a thorn, And there sung the dolefull'st ditty, That to hear it was great pity. 'Fie, fie, fie...
Page 252 - When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks, When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws, And maidens bleach their summer smocks, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men, for thus sings he, Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo...
Page 127 - Oh, from out the sounding cells, What a gush of euphony voluminously wells! How it swells! How it dwells On the Future!
Page 302 - I sighed for thee ; When light rode high, and the dew was gone, And noon lay heavy on flower and tree, And the weary Day turned to his rest, Lingering like an unloved guest, I sighed for thee. Thy brother Death came, and cried,
Page 124 - Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome. Lo! in yon brilliant window-niche How statue-like I see thee stand, The agate lamp within thy hand! Ah, Psyche, from the regions which Are Holy Land!