Studies in History and Letters
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9781152482296
Paperback|9781152482296
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ...verses in her character of pedagogue, as exercises in different forms of verse. It is as if Shakespeare had written his sonnet, "Shall I compare thee to a summers day?" only to show young Southampton where the rhymes came in. Still more diflicult is it to determine the same question--autobiographical or dramatic?--in case of the fragment next in length to this poem. It has been well engrafted into English literature through the translation of Ambrose Philips, as follows: --" TO A BELOVED WOMAN " Blest as the immortal gods is he, The youth who fondly sits by thee, And hears and sees thee, all the while, Softly speak and sweetly smile. " Twa.s that deprived my soul of rest, And raised such tumult in my breast; For while I gazed, in transport tost, My breath was gone, my voice was lost. "My bosom glowed; the subtile flame Ran quick through all my vital frame; On my dim eyes a darkness hung; My ears with hollow murmurs rung. " With dewy damps my limbs were chilled; My blood with gentle horrors thrilled; My feeble pulse forgot to play; I fainted, sunk, and died away." The translation would give the impression that this is a complete poem; but it is not. A fragment of the next verse brings some revival from this desperate condition, but what exit is finally provided does not appear. The existing lines are preserved by Longinus in the eighth chapter of his famous book, " On the Sublime; " and his commentary is almost as impassioned as the poem. "Is it not wonderful how she calls at once on soul, body, ears, tongue, eyes, color, ----as on so many separate deaths, --and how in self-contradiction and simultaneously she freezes, she glows, she raves, she returns to reason, she is...
| ISBN-13 | 9781152482296 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1152482297 |
| Weight | 0.50 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.34 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 148 pages |
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| Published On | 2010-01-01 |
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