Outlines of English LiteratureSheldon & Company, 1866 - 465 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 63
... scenes , his English follower was " made of sterner stuff . " The friend of John of Gaunt , and the disciple of Wickliffe , was not so easily to be worked upon by monastic subtlety as the more superstitious and sensuous Italian . The ...
... scenes , his English follower was " made of sterner stuff . " The friend of John of Gaunt , and the disciple of Wickliffe , was not so easily to be worked upon by monastic subtlety as the more superstitious and sensuous Italian . The ...
Σελίδα 68
... scenes , the manners , and even the diction of the Arcadia ; ' Shirley , Beaumont , and Fletcher turned to it as their text - book ; Sidney enchanted two later brothers in Waller and Cowley ; and the world of fashion in Sidney's age ...
... scenes , the manners , and even the diction of the Arcadia ; ' Shirley , Beaumont , and Fletcher turned to it as their text - book ; Sidney enchanted two later brothers in Waller and Cowley ; and the world of fashion in Sidney's age ...
Σελίδα 75
... scenes , soft or terrible , which ever glowed before the intellectual gaze of the great painters which have more reality than his ; like the gallery so exquisitely described by Byron : " There rose a Carlo Dolce , or a Titian , Or ...
... scenes , soft or terrible , which ever glowed before the intellectual gaze of the great painters which have more reality than his ; like the gallery so exquisitely described by Byron : " There rose a Carlo Dolce , or a Titian , Or ...
Σελίδα 96
... scène . • Indiscriminate admiration , however , has discovered beauties in merely accidental and unimportant ... scene , attempts have been made to prove that the fixed scene - or unity of place is an essential law of the dramatic art ...
... scène . • Indiscriminate admiration , however , has discovered beauties in merely accidental and unimportant ... scene , attempts have been made to prove that the fixed scene - or unity of place is an essential law of the dramatic art ...
Σελίδα 97
... scenes ; and the whole was bound together by one pervading princi ple , in the highest degree moving and sublime - the over - ruling and incessant action of the dramatic fate . These grand and awful events were familiar to the audience ...
... scenes ; and the whole was bound together by one pervading princi ple , in the highest degree moving and sublime - the over - ruling and incessant action of the dramatic fate . These grand and awful events were familiar to the audience ...
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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.