Discourse: Essay on English and American LiteratureRodopi, 1978 - 200 Seiten |
Inhalt
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A Lesson in Communications | 38 |
White Witchcraft in TudorStuart Drama | 52 |
Another Biblical Allusion in Paradise Lost | 62 |
AsemGoldsmiths Solution to Timons Dilemma | 77 |
A Unifying Element in Tennysons Maud | 89 |
Sophocles Role in Dover Beach | 98 |
The Garden Imagery in Great Expectations | 109 |
Victorian Women in Barchester Towers | 116 |
Another Look at Youth | 125 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Absalom and Achitophel accept allusion American Anthology Arnold Barchester Towers becomes Belarius Biblical Brutus Cassius century characters Christian Clorin concern contemporary critics CYMBELINE death Deer Isle Deloney's Destiny divine Dover Beach Dragon Dryden Edwin Arlington Robinson English evident evil example fact Faerie Queene faith Falstaff father fiction fire Flem garden gods Ibid illustrates imagery intuitive knowledge island Johnson Julius Caesar King Kipling Lest We Forget literature lives London look man's Marlow Milton mind moral Mother Bombie nature NOTES novel Oedipus Palanese Paradise Lost parallel Perhaps persuaded play plot poem poet poetry Prince problem reader religious reminds Renaissance repent Robinson Romantic Satan and Achitophel says scene seems Shakespeare society Sonny's spirit Spoon River Spoon River Anthology Steinbeck story suffer suggests thee theme things thou Timon Travels with Charley Trollope true Tudor-Stuart Utopia Victorian white witch witchcraft woman words York youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 90 - Let it flame or fade, and the war roll down like a wind, We have proved we have hearts in a cause, we are noble still, And myself have awaked, as it seems, to the better mind ; It is better to fight for the good, than to rail at the ill...
Seite 69 - Here we may reign secure: and in my choice. To reign is worth ambition, though in hell ; Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
Seite 48 - O thou goddess, Thou divine Nature, how thyself thou blazon'st In these two princely boys! They are as gentle As zephyrs, blowing below the violet, Not wagging his sweet head: and yet as rough, Their royal blood enchafd, as the rud'st wind, That by the top doth take the mountain pine, And make him stoop to the vale.
Seite 6 - Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; every man's work shall be made manifest; for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
Seite 192 - Street; the innumerable trades, tradesmen, and customers, coaches, waggons, playhouses; all the bustle and wickedness round about Covent Garden; the very women of the Town ; the watchmen, drunken scenes, rattles; life awake, if you awake, at all hours of the night ; the impossibility of being dull in Fleet Street ; the crowds, the very dirt and mud...
Seite 22 - The noble heart that harbours virtuous thought, And is with child of glorious great intent, Can never rest until it forth have brought Th' eternal brood of glory excellent.
Seite 85 - These are the great occasions which force the mind to take refuge in religion : when we have no help in ourselves, what can remain but that we look up to a higher and a greater Power ? and to what hope may we not raise our eyes and hearts, when we consider that the greatest POWER is the BEST?' Surely there is no man who, thus afflicted, does not seek succour in the gospel, which has brought life and immortality to light.
Seite 34 - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Seite 89 - There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate, She is coming, my dove, my dear; She is coming, my life, my fate. The red rose cries, "She is near, she is near ;" And the white rose weeps, "She is late;" The larkspur listens, "I hear, I hear;" And the lily whispers, "I wait.