English Prose: Selections, Τόμος 5Sir Henry Craik Macmillan and Company, 1896 This collection shows the growth and development of English prose by extracts from the principal and most characteristic writers. |
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... Literature Ideas in France , Germany , and England Arminius Criticises 695 George Saintsbury 699 705 706 709 Ancient and Modern Criticism of Poetry Mr. Arnold as Barbarian and Populace Eutrapelia 712 714 716 English and German Poetry ...
... Literature Ideas in France , Germany , and England Arminius Criticises 695 George Saintsbury 699 705 706 709 Ancient and Modern Criticism of Poetry Mr. Arnold as Barbarian and Populace Eutrapelia 712 714 716 English and German Poetry ...
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... literature became unfortu- nately a fashion which was supposed to indicate a certain amount of cultivation . It was held to be a graceful accomplishment for the man of the world : and with increasing frequency it even became a calling ...
... literature became unfortu- nately a fashion which was supposed to indicate a certain amount of cultivation . It was held to be a graceful accomplishment for the man of the world : and with increasing frequency it even became a calling ...
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... literature , formed a language of its own , and threw back on literature a whole host of technical terms , which broke up our most characteristic idioms , 6 ENGLISH PROSE.
... literature , formed a language of its own , and threw back on literature a whole host of technical terms , which broke up our most characteristic idioms , 6 ENGLISH PROSE.
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... literature to be filled up ? Not , we fear , in one generation , which , among many highly gifted persons , has pro- duced none who approached Byron in originality , the first attribute of genius . Only thirty - seven years old — so ...
... literature to be filled up ? Not , we fear , in one generation , which , among many highly gifted persons , has pro- duced none who approached Byron in originality , the first attribute of genius . Only thirty - seven years old — so ...
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Selections Sir Henry Craik. was totally free from the curse and degradation of literature — its jealousies , we mean , and its envy . But his wonderful genius was of a nature which disdained restraint , even when restraint was most ...
Selections Sir Henry Craik. was totally free from the curse and degradation of literature — its jealousies , we mean , and its envy . But his wonderful genius was of a nature which disdained restraint , even when restraint was most ...
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Adam Blair admiration appeared beautiful born called century character Charles Lamb Charlotte Brontë charm Church colour criticism death delight Domrémy Edinburgh Edinburgh Review effect England English essays eyes fancy father feeling French friends genius GEORGE SAINTSBURY give hand heard heart heaven honour human humour imagination infinite intellectual Jane Austen kind lady less letters light literary literature living look Lord Lord Byron Lothair Macaulay manner matter mind Miss moral nation nature never night novels once passages passed passion Peninsular War perhaps persons Philistines philosophy poet poetry political poor prose Scotland Scottish seemed Seithenyn sense society sometimes speak spirit stood strong style Sydney Smith taste thee things thou thought Tiny Tim tion truth turn voice Washington Irving whist whole words writings young
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Σελίδα 174 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Σελίδα 73 - It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda;' or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.
Σελίδα 692 - I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Σελίδα 175 - Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother: They parted - ne'er to meet again! But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs, which had been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows between; But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been.
Σελίδα 79 - In his loneliness and fixedness he yearneth towards the journeying Moon, and the stars that still sojourn, yet still move onward; and every where the blue sky belongs to them, and is their appointed rest, and their native country and their own natural homes, which they enter unannounced, as lords that are certainly expected and yet there is a silent joy at their arrival.
Σελίδα 452 - And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace ! but now they are hid from thine eyes.
Σελίδα 479 - Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life...
Σελίδα 453 - O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not!
Σελίδα 34 - Proud Maisie is in the wood, Walking so early. Sweet Robin sits on the bush, Singing so rarely. 'Tell me, thou bonny bird, When shall I marry me? ' 'When six braw gentlemen Kirkward shall carry ye.
Σελίδα 430 - Heathfield, recently ennobled for his memorable defence of Gibraltar against the fleets and armies of France and Spain. The long procession was closed by the Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal of the realm, by the great dignitaries, and by the brothers and sons of the King. Last of all came the Prince of Wales, conspicuous by his fine person and noble bearing.