The Classical Influence in English Literature in the Nineteenth Century: And Other Essays and NotesStratford Company, 1918 - 150 sayfa |
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Sayfa 107 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day ; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Sayfa 76 - The Vision of Christ that thou dost see Is my Vision's Greatest Enemy...
Sayfa 84 - The world of imagination is the world of eternity; it is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after the death of the vegetated body.
Sayfa 147 - SHADED lamp and a waving blind, And the beat of a clock from a distant floor : On this scene enter — winged, horned, and spined— A longlegs, a moth, and a dumbledore ; While 'mid my page there idly stands A sleepy fly, that rubs its hands . . . Thus meet we five, in this still place, At this point of time, at this point in space.
Sayfa 54 - Hers is the head upon which all ' the ends of the world are come,' and the eyelids are a little weary. It is a beauty wrought out from within upon the flesh, the deposit, little cell by cell, of strange thoughts and fantastic reveries and exquisite passions. Set it for a moment beside one of those white Greek goddesses or beautiful women of antiquity, and how would they be troubled by this beauty, into which the soul with all its maladies has passed...
Sayfa 64 - I became the spendthrift of my own genius, and to waste an eternal youth gave me a curious joy. Tired of being on the heights, I deliberately went to the depths in the search for new sensation. What the paradox was to me in the sphere of thought, perversity became to me in the sphere of passion.
Sayfa 74 - Dear Sir, excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I take a pencil or graver into my hand, even as I used to be in my youth, and as I have not been for twenty dark, but very profitable years.
Sayfa 65 - Well, the way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. When the Verities become acrobats we can judge them.
Sayfa 86 - For Mercy has a human heart; Pity a human face; And Love, the human form divine; And Peace, the human dress.
Sayfa 85 - It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after the death of the vegetated body. This world of imagination is infinite and eternal, whereas the world of generation or vegetation is finite and temporal There exist in that eternal world the eternal realities of everything which we see reflected in this vegetable glass of nature.