The Afternoon Lectures on Literature & Art: Delivered in the Theatre of the Royal College of Science, & S. Stephen's Green, Dublin, in the Years 1867 & 1868 |
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... spirit of the Homeric age , her further history would not have shown a form wasting with love , like that of the lily maid of Astolat ; for we do not hear in those primitive days of ladies breaking their hearts for the love of their ...
... spirit of the Homeric age , her further history would not have shown a form wasting with love , like that of the lily maid of Astolat ; for we do not hear in those primitive days of ladies breaking their hearts for the love of their ...
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... spirit . When this very Ulysses , for example , of whom we are speaking , returns home , and slays the wanton suitors who were wasting his substance and persecuting his family , Homer describes him , with evident satisfaction , taking ...
... spirit . When this very Ulysses , for example , of whom we are speaking , returns home , and slays the wanton suitors who were wasting his substance and persecuting his family , Homer describes him , with evident satisfaction , taking ...
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... spirit , and a chivalrous sense of honor - a deficiency in honesty , and a full measure of courtly sentiment . II . But there is a peculiarity in the history of senti- ment , which you must carefully bear in mind . It does not ...
... spirit , and a chivalrous sense of honor - a deficiency in honesty , and a full measure of courtly sentiment . II . But there is a peculiarity in the history of senti- ment , which you must carefully bear in mind . It does not ...
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... spirits of the day sharpened their in- tellects by discussing and dissecting all the ideas and associations which had found respect and favour in a simpler age , but one thing resisted their scepticism , and remained a tangible object ...
... spirits of the day sharpened their in- tellects by discussing and dissecting all the ideas and associations which had found respect and favour in a simpler age , but one thing resisted their scepticism , and remained a tangible object ...
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... spirit of their civilization show itself more distinctly than in want of respect for the hoary head . It had , indeed , been formerly in fashion to honour old age , and the Areopagus had once been regarded as the fountain of wisdom in ...
... spirit of their civilization show itself more distinctly than in want of respect for the hoary head . It had , indeed , been formerly in fashion to honour old age , and the Areopagus had once been regarded as the fountain of wisdom in ...
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Page 164 - All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good, shall exist ; Not its semblance, but itself ; no beauty, nor good, nor power • Whose voice has gone forth, but each survives for the melodist When eternity affirms the conception of an hour.
Page 164 - There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound; What was good shall be good, with, for evil, so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round.
Page 142 - AN old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king ; Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow Through public scorn — mud from a muddy spring ; Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know. But leech-like to their fainting country cling...
Page 156 - Ah, did you once see Shelley plain, And did he stop and speak to you, And did you speak to him again? How strange it seems and new!
Page 42 - I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure : and behold, this also is vanity. I said of laughter, It is mad : and of mirth, What
Page 308 - Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through thee, Are fresh and strong.
Page 164 - All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good shall exist; Not its semblance, but itself; no beauty, nor good, nor power "Whose voice has gone forth, but each survives for the melodist When eternity affirms the conception of an hour. The high that proved too high, the heroic for earth too hard, The passion that left the ground to lose itself in the sky, Are music sent up to God by the lover and the bard; Enough that he heard it once: we shall hear it byand-by.
Page 163 - That arm is wrongly put — and there again — A fault to pardon in the drawing's lines, Its body, so to speak : its soul is right, He means right — that, a child may understand.
Page 118 - She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.
Page 141 - Eternal process moving on, From state to state the spirit walks ; And these are but the shatter'd stalks, Or ruin'd chrysalis of one. Nor blame I Death, because he bare The use of virtue out of earth : I know transplanted human worth Will bloom to profit, otherwhere. For this alone on Death I wreak The wrath that garners in my heart ; He put our lives so far apart We cannot hear each other speak.