Thursday, April 23, 2009

Wordsworth's "We Are Seven," (lines 65-69)

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"We Are Seven" is one of the most evocative, yet disarmingly simple of Wordsworth's contributions to the famous Lyrical Ballad...
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Thursday, April 16, 2009

"The Cenci" - II.ii.27-40

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CAMILLO Though your peculiar case is hard, I know The Pope will not divert the course of law. After that impious feast the...
Friday, April 10, 2009

Burke's Reflections -- "The age of chivalry is gone."

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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her [Marie Antoinette, the French ...
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Friday, April 3, 2009

"Ode to a Nightingale" (lines 21-30)

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I'll admit that I've never been a big fan of Keats, but some lines strike me as eerily unforgettable. Among these, the third stanza...
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Thursday, March 26, 2009

Preface to Lyrical Ballads; "gross and violent stimulants"

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For the human mind is capable of being excited without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint percep...
Thursday, March 12, 2009

Rime of the Ancient Mariner, 582-90

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Since then, at an uncertain hour, That agony returns, And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns. I pass, like night, from...
Sunday, March 8, 2009

Manfred, I.ii.37-42

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How beautiful is all this visible world! How glorious in its action and itself; But we, who name ourselves its sovereigns, we, Half dust, ha...