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69 Cards in this Set
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"Think it not thy business, this knowing thyself; thou art an unknowable individual: know what thou canst work at; and work at it, like Hercules! That will be thy better plan."
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Thomas Carlyle - Past and Present
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"Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by Action alone"
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Thomas Carlyle - Past and Present
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"but culture works differently... it does not try to win them for this sect of their own... It seeks to do away with classes; to make the best that has been thought and known in the world current everywhere; to make all men live in an atmosphere of sweetness and light, where they may use ideas, as it uses them itself, freely,--nourished, and not bound by them."
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Matthew Arnold - Culture and Anarchy
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"Thou hast been, shalt be, art, alone."
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Matthew Arnold - "Isolation. To Marguerite"
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"Tho' Nature, red in tooth and claw"
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Tennyson - In Memorium
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"I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope
And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope." |
Tennyson - In Memorium
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"I Falter firmly where I trod,
And Falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God" |
Tennyson - In Memorium
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"He fed upon her face by day and night...
Not as she is, but as she fills his dream." |
Christina Rossetti - "In an Artist's Studio"
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Hallam
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Tennyson's lost friend-In Memorium his written about him
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"and let the ape and tiger die"
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Tennyson - In Memorium
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"And bless thee, for thy lips are bland,
And bright the friendship of thine eye; And in my thoughts with scarce a sigh I take the pressure of thine hand." |
Tennyson - In Memorium
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"A warmth within the breast would melt
The freezing reason's colder part, And like a man in wrath the heart Stood up and answer'd 'I have felt.'" |
Tennyson - In Memorium
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"No, like a child in doubt and fear:
But that blind clamour made me wise; Then was I as a child that cries, But, crying, knows his father's near;" |
Tennyson - In Memorium
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"And out of darkness came the hands
That reached thro' nature, moulding men." |
Tennyson - In Memorium
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"And all is well, tho' faith and form
Be sunder'd in the night of fear; Well roars the storm to those that hear A deeper voice across the storm" |
Tennyson - In Memorium
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"That friend of mine who lives in God"
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Tennyson - In Memorium
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"That God, which ever lives and loves,
One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves." |
Tennyson - In Memorium
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Buldingsroman
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A "coming of age" or development novel
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Allegory
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A story in which the story and characters represent something else - A 1 to 1 correspondence.
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Action, Currer, and Ellis Belle
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Psuedonymns for the Bronte sisters
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Gothic
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The seemingly supernatureal incidents always have rational explanations
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"Conventionality is not morality"
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Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre
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doppelganger
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Sprung Rhythm
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From Hopkins's study in Whales - Nearest to natural rhythm of speach - Emphasizing stresses not syllables
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Inscape ("Inner Landscape")
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Hopkins - Everything has a distinctive design that constitutes...
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Instress
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Hopkins - The energy that unifies Inscape and projects it out to the observer.
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"Terrible" Sonnets
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Hopkins's sonnets in which he is honest about his depression, and his sense of spiritual sterility
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Haecceitas
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Doug Scotts, a medieval philosopher, who influenced Hopkins - "Thisness" distinctiveness in every object and person
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"I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh--it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both of us passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal,--as we are!"
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Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre
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"And your will shall decide your destiny... I offer you my hand, my heart, and a share of all my possessions."
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Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre
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"If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends."
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Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre
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"Midas longed for gold... What a truth in these old fables!"
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Thomas Carlyle - Past and Present
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"Gurth's brass collar did not gall him: Cedric deserved to be his master."
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Thomas Carlyle - Past and Present
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"Liberty to die by starvation is not so divine!"
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Thomas Carlyle - Past and Present
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"And laid her soiled gloves by, untied
Her hat and let the damp hair fall" |
Robert Browning - "Porphyria's Lover"
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"She put my arm about her waist,
"And made her smooth white shoulder bare... And, stooping, made my cheek lie there" |
Robert Browning - "Porphyria's Lover"
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"and all her hair
In one long yellow string I wound Three times her little throat around, And strangled her." |
Robert Browning - "Porphyria's Lover"
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"And all night long we have not stirred,
And yet God has not said a word!" |
Robert Browning - "Porphyria's Lover"
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"If hate killed men, Brother Lawrence,
God's blood, would not mine kill you!" |
Robert Browning - "Sililoquy of the Spanish Cloister"
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"If I trip him just a-dying,
Sure of Heaven as sure can be, Spin him round and send him flying Off to hell, a Manichee?" |
Robert Browning - "Sililoquy of the Spanish Cloister"
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"She had
A heart--how shall I say?--too soon made glad" |
Robert Browning - "My Last Duchess"
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He is critical of consumerism
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John Ruskin - The Stones of Venice: "The Nature of Gothic"
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"Do what you can, and confess frankly what you are unable to do; neither let your effort be shortened for fear of failure, nor confession silenced for fear of shame."
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John Ruskin - The Stones of Venice: "The Nature of Gothic"
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"You must either make a tool of the creature, or a man of him. You cannot make both."
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John Ruskin - The Stones of Venice: "The Nature of Gothic"
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"Never encourage the manufacture of any article not absolutely necessary, in the production of which Invention has no share."
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John Ruskin - The Stones of Venice: "The Nature of Gothic"
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"every young lady, therefore, who buys glass beads is engaged in the slave-trade"
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John Ruskin - The Stones of Venice: "The Nature of Gothic"
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"For surely once, they feel, we were
Parts of a single continent!" |
Matthew Arnold - "To Marguerite-Continued"
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"The Sea of Faith
Was once, too, at the full, and round the earth's shore... But now I only hear It's melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, retreating" |
Matthew Arnold - "Dover Beach"
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"Alas! is even love to weak
To unlock the heart, and let it speak?" |
Matthew Arnold - "The Buried Life"
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"And long we try in vain to speak and act
Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well--but 'tis not true!" |
Matthew Arnold - "The Buried Life"
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"He did not love me living; but once dead
He pitied me; and very sweet it is To know he still warm tho' I am cold." |
Christina Rossetti - "After Death"
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"For there is no friend like a sister
In calm or stormy weather" |
Christina Rossetti - "Goblin Market"
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"Why do men then now not reck his rod?
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Hopkins - "God's Grandeur"
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"Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
World broods with warm breasts and with ah! bright wings!" |
Hopkins - "God's Grandeur"
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"Glory be to God for dappled things"
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Hopkins - "Pied Beauty"
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"I say more: the just man justices...
Acts in God's eye what in God's eye he is--Christ" |
Hopkins - "As Kingfishers Catch Fire"
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"That night, that year
Of now done darkness I wretch lay wrestling with (my God!) my God." |
Hopkins - "Carrion Comfort"
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"Comforter, where, where is your comforting?"
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Hopkins - "No Worst, There is None"
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Disraeli-Sivil
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"The two nations" - slums and opulence - the widening gap
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Pre-Raphaelites / Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB)
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-Wanted to go back to before the Renaissance - Return to a simpler time.
-Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Christina's brother) was one of the founders |
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Dramatic Monologue
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Ventriloquist - Portrayed characters in heightened moments
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Multitudinousness
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They had lots of stuff going on all the time - They were incredibly productive
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No matter who you are or where you come from, you can be united by a common knowledge.
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Matthew Arnold - Culture and Anarchy
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Angria and Gondel
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Story made up by Bronte children to go along with the lives of their dolls
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entre
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The first word Jane learns in French - "to be"
Bronte - Jane Eyre |
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Bertha
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Rochester's lunatic wife
Bronte - Jane Eyre |
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Blanche Ingram
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The woman Rochester is supposed to be engaged to - She only pretends to read and is mean to governesses
Bronte - Jane Eyre |
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Rosamond Oliver
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The woman with whom St. John is in love - "Rose of the world," He doesn't think she's fit to be a missionaries wife
Bronte - Jane Eyre |
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"All art constantly aspires to the condition of music"
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Walter Pater - Hopkins tutor at Oxford
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