Outlines of English literatureJ. Murray, 1849 - 540 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 17
... effect of the Norman invasion , for hardly any new accession of French words is perceptible in it for at least a hundred years from this time it may be remarked that some few French words had crept in before this period , and also a ...
... effect of the Norman invasion , for hardly any new accession of French words is perceptible in it for at least a hundred years from this time it may be remarked that some few French words had crept in before this period , and also a ...
Σελίδα 44
... effect by quoting it piecemeal in this place , but refer our readers to the volume of extracts , in which the whole of Chaucer's Pro- logue will be found at length . Then we find enumerated a Reve , a Miller , a Sompnour ( an officer in ...
... effect by quoting it piecemeal in this place , but refer our readers to the volume of extracts , in which the whole of Chaucer's Pro- logue will be found at length . Then we find enumerated a Reve , a Miller , a Sompnour ( an officer in ...
Σελίδα 48
... effect upon the mind is like that of some gorgeous tissue , gold - inwoven , of tapestry , in an old baronial hall ; full of tournaments and battles , imprisoned knights , and emblazoned banners , Gothic temples of Mars and Venus , the ...
... effect upon the mind is like that of some gorgeous tissue , gold - inwoven , of tapestry , in an old baronial hall ; full of tournaments and battles , imprisoned knights , and emblazoned banners , Gothic temples of Mars and Venus , the ...
Σελίδα 66
... effect of the whole majestic structure . Spenser supposed the Fairy Queen to appear in a vision to Prince Arthur , who , awaking deeply enamoured , resolves on seeking his unearthly mistress in Faery Land . The poet then repre- sents ...
... effect of the whole majestic structure . Spenser supposed the Fairy Queen to appear in a vision to Prince Arthur , who , awaking deeply enamoured , resolves on seeking his unearthly mistress in Faery Land . The poet then repre- sents ...
Σελίδα 67
... effect in modifying the genius of Spenser , The Faery Queen ' is written in a peculiar versification to which we have given the name of the " Spen- serian stanza . ' It is really nothing more than the Italian 66 ottava rima , " or eight ...
... effect in modifying the genius of Spenser , The Faery Queen ' is written in a peculiar versification to which we have given the name of the " Spen- serian stanza . ' It is really nothing more than the Italian 66 ottava rima , " or eight ...
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Σελίδα 348 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
Σελίδα 212 - Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.
Σελίδα 336 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berccau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
Σελίδα 266 - I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives, to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.
Σελίδα 181 - Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model: or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept, or nature to be...
Σελίδα 136 - Invest me in my motley ; give me leave To speak my mind, and I will through and through Cleanse the foul body of the infected world, If they will patiently receive my medicine.
Σελίδα 243 - But why then publish * Granville the polite, And knowing Walsh, would tell me I could write ; Well-natured Garth inflamed with early praise, And Congreve loved, and Swift endured my lays ; The courtly Talbot, Somers, Sheffield read, Ev'n mitred Rochester would nod the head, And St. John's self (great Dryden's friends before) With open arms received one poet more.
Σελίδα 122 - You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!
Σελίδα 242 - Though mark'd by none but quick, poetic eyes : (So Rome's great founder to the heavens withdrew, To Proculus alone confess'd in view :) A sudden star, it shot through liquid air, And drew behind a radiant trail of hair.
Σελίδα 110 - Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone : regard his hellish fall, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise Only to wonder at unlawful things, Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits To practise more than heavenly power permits.