Outlines of English LiteratureSheldon & Company, 1866 - 465 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα x
... Poetry Temple of Fame , & c . Translation of Homer - Essay on Man Miscellanies The Dunciad Satires and Epistles ... Poets - Edition of Shakspeare- Dictionary - Rambler and Idler 229 CHAPTER XIV . L THE GREAT NOVELISTS . History of Prose ...
... Poetry Temple of Fame , & c . Translation of Homer - Essay on Man Miscellanies The Dunciad Satires and Epistles ... Poets - Edition of Shakspeare- Dictionary - Rambler and Idler 229 CHAPTER XIV . L THE GREAT NOVELISTS . History of Prose ...
Σελίδα xi
... Poetry James Thomson Episodes Castle of Indolence Minor Works Lyric Poetry- Thomas Gray - The Bard , and the Elegy - Collins and Shenstone The Schoolmistress Ossian Chatterton and the Rowley William Cowper - George Crabbe The Lowland ...
... Poetry James Thomson Episodes Castle of Indolence Minor Works Lyric Poetry- Thomas Gray - The Bard , and the Elegy - Collins and Shenstone The Schoolmistress Ossian Chatterton and the Rowley William Cowper - George Crabbe The Lowland ...
Σελίδα xii
... POETRY . Wordsworth and the Lake School - Philosophical and Poetical Theo- ries The Lyrical Ballads The Excursion ... Poets Conclusion ...... 413 A SKETCH OF AMERICAN LITERATURE . CHAPTER I. Literature in Fii CONTENTS .
... POETRY . Wordsworth and the Lake School - Philosophical and Poetical Theo- ries The Lyrical Ballads The Excursion ... Poets Conclusion ...... 413 A SKETCH OF AMERICAN LITERATURE . CHAPTER I. Literature in Fii CONTENTS .
Σελίδα xiii
... - Favorite Single Poems Descriptive Poetry — Street - Whittier , and others . Brainard - Song - Writers Other Poets -- Female Poets - Bryant 468 OUTLINES OF GENERAL LITERATURE . CHAPTER I. THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE 2 CONTENTS . xiii.
... - Favorite Single Poems Descriptive Poetry — Street - Whittier , and others . Brainard - Song - Writers Other Poets -- Female Poets - Bryant 468 OUTLINES OF GENERAL LITERATURE . CHAPTER I. THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE 2 CONTENTS . xiii.
Σελίδα 43
... poets , ancient and modern , have striven to do ) an air of antiquity to the language of his Faery Queen , ' in ... poetry . Now , whether the trunk - hose fashion of Queen Eliza- beth's days , or the pantaloon genius of ours , be ...
... poets , ancient and modern , have striven to do ) an air of antiquity to the language of his Faery Queen , ' in ... poetry . Now , whether the trunk - hose fashion of Queen Eliza- beth's days , or the pantaloon genius of ours , be ...
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admirable adventures ancient appeared Bacon beautiful Boccaccio burlesque Byron Canterbury Tales character charm Chaucer comedy comic composition criticism degree delineation drama dramatists Dryden Dunciad eloquence England English English language English literature exhibited existence expression exquisite Faery Queen feeling fiction French genius give glory grace hero Hudibras human humour idea immortal impressive inimitable intellectual intense interest language learning less literary literature lyric manners merit Middle Ages Milton mind mock-heroic modern moral narrative nature noble novel original Paradise Lost passages passion pathos peculiar perhaps period personages persons Petrarch philosophy picture picturesque poem poet poetical poetry political Pope popular possessed principles productions prose racter reader religious remarkable rich romantic romantic fiction satire Saxon scenery scenes Scotland Scott sentiment Shakspeare singular society species Spenser spirit splendour style sublime sympathy tale taste thought tion tone Trouvères true verse versification wonderful words writings written
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Σελίδα 71 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope ; to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Σελίδα 241 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike...
Σελίδα 191 - ... of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history...
Σελίδα 234 - 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 244 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Σελίδα 168 - 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 51 - Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine : I have never heard Praise of love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine.
Σελίδα 288 - 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 berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
Σελίδα 134 - 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 168 - Gods; and what resounds In fable or romance of Uther's son Begirt with British and Armoric knights ; And all who since, baptized or infidel, Jousted in Aspramont, or Montalban, Damasco, or Marocco, or Trebisond, Or whom Biserta sent from Afric shore, When Charlemain with all his peerage fell By Fontarabbia.