Poets and Story-tellers: A Book of Critical EssaysMacmillan, 1949 - 201 pages |
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Page 15
... spirit which keeps thee , is Noble , courageous , high , unmatchable , Where Caesar's is not ; but near him thy angel Becomes a fear , as being o'erpowered ; therefore Make space enough between you . ANTHONY . Speak this no more ...
... spirit which keeps thee , is Noble , courageous , high , unmatchable , Where Caesar's is not ; but near him thy angel Becomes a fear , as being o'erpowered ; therefore Make space enough between you . ANTHONY . Speak this no more ...
Page 64
... spirit too strongly for him to be able completely to let himself go . His poetry , in fact , illustrates perfectly the characteristic limitations of the academic spirit . But it also reveals , in the highest degree , its characteristic ...
... spirit too strongly for him to be able completely to let himself go . His poetry , in fact , illustrates perfectly the characteristic limitations of the academic spirit . But it also reveals , in the highest degree , its characteristic ...
Page 152
... spirit rises to its full stature . Life at its most terrible turns out , paradoxically , to be also life at its most significant . There is nothing of this in Adolphe . Disaster does not intensify or exalt Adolphe's personality ; it ...
... spirit rises to its full stature . Life at its most terrible turns out , paradoxically , to be also life at its most significant . There is nothing of this in Adolphe . Disaster does not intensify or exalt Adolphe's personality ; it ...
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action admiration Adolphe æsthetic Antony and Cleopatra Antony's appear artist aspects beauty Branghtons Burney's character charm civilised comedy comic convention critic Dalloway death describes Devil drama Duchess Duchess of Malfi E. M. FORSTER eighteenth-century Elizabethan Ellénore emotion English Evelina experience expression eyes fact Fanny Burney fastidious feeling Flamineo give Gray Gray's hand heart hero heroine historical House of Gentlefolk Howard's End human humour imagination impression inevitably Jane Austen lady live Longest Journey looked love-story Mansfield Park mind mood moral nature never Northanger Abbey novel novelists observation Octavius once passages passion picture Pindaric play plot poem poetry Progress of Poesy reader realistic reality relation reveals romantic Russian satirical scene seems sense sensibility sentiment Shakespeare significance social soul spirit story success talent taste theme things thought tragedy tragic true Turgenev turn Virginia Woolf virtue vision Webster Wilcox worldly writer