A Text-book for the Study of PoetryAllyn and Bacon, 1913 - 214 Seiten |
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A. C. Bradley action Æneas Æneid æsthetic Alliteration anapests antistrophe Aristotle artistic beautiful cæsura Chap chapter character color Comedy conceive conception defect definition of poetry diction distinct dramatic Edipus effect element emotional mood epic essential Euripides example expression external fancy fear feeling Golden Treasury Goneril Greek heart Hecuba Hence hero idea idealization Iliad imagery imaginative faculty impression incidents instance intensity King Lear language lines Lycidas lyric poetry Macbeth merely metre Milton mind moral narration narrative narrative poetry nature noble emotion object onomatopoeia Paradise Lost passions pathos phrase pity play plot poem poet poet's poetic Polymestor principles proper prose purpose reader represent rhyme satire scene sense Shakespeare Shelley soul sounds stanza style suggested syllables Tennyson's thou thought tion tragedy tragic trochees true truth unity verse vividness word-painting words Wordsworth writer
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Seite 182 - Fear death? — to feel the fog in my throat, The mist in my face, When the snows begin, and the blasts denote I am nearing the place, The power of the night, the press of the storm, The post of the foe; Where he stands, the Arch Fear in a visible form, Yet the strong man must go...
Seite 150 - I SPRANG to the stirrup, and Joris, and he ; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three ; " Good speed ! " cried the watch, as the gatebolts undrew ; "Speed...
Seite 189 - O, that this too, too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew ! " Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter...
Seite 173 - Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now...
Seite 31 - O Proserpina ! For the flowers now that frighted thou let'st fall From Dis's waggon ! daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty ; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath...
Seite 30 - I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where ox-lips and the nodding violet grows ; Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine...
Seite 188 - Methought I heard a voice cry, Sleep no more ! Macbeth does murder sleep, the innocent sleep ; Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast ;— Lady M.
Seite 187 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Seite 24 - Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was as white as leprosy, The Night-mare LIFE-IN-DEATH was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold. The naked hulk alongside came, And the twain were casting dice; "The game is done! I've won! I've won!
Seite 192 - Each cast at the other, as when two black clouds, With Heaven's artillery fraught, come rattling on Over the Caspian ; then stand front to front Hovering a space, till winds the signal blow To join their dark encounter in mid air...