Outlines of English LiteratureBlanchard and Lea, 1864 - 489 σελίδες |
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... least form clear ideas of the main boundaries and divisions of English literature ; whilst the frequent change of topic will , the author trusts , render these pages much less tiresome and monotonous than a regular sytematic treatise ...
... least form clear ideas of the main boundaries and divisions of English literature ; whilst the frequent change of topic will , the author trusts , render these pages much less tiresome and monotonous than a regular sytematic treatise ...
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... least exposed to foreign admixture , the ancient race is yet slowly losing its marked peculiarities ; and the day will probably come when the wild mountain fastnesses , which formed an insuperable barrier to the Roman sword and to the ...
... least exposed to foreign admixture , the ancient race is yet slowly losing its marked peculiarities ; and the day will probably come when the wild mountain fastnesses , which formed an insuperable barrier to the Roman sword and to the ...
Σελίδα 34
... least as far as their orthography is concerned , to have reached among us a greater purity than they have in French , Italian , or even in Spanish . 66 Nothing can be more difficult , " says the judicious and accurate Hallam , " than to ...
... least as far as their orthography is concerned , to have reached among us a greater purity than they have in French , Italian , or even in Spanish . 66 Nothing can be more difficult , " says the judicious and accurate Hallam , " than to ...
Σελίδα 37
... 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 considerable Latinising tendency may be remarked ; but the changes of which we are speaking are rather of ...
... 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 considerable Latinising tendency may be remarked ; but the changes of which we are speaking are rather of ...
Σελίδα 41
... least for the common business of life , the French and the Latin . In the following century , and at the beginning of the reign of Henry VI . , flourished the poet Lydgate , and also the learned Sir John Fortescue , Chief Justice of the ...
... least for the common business of life , the French and the Latin . In the following century , and at the beginning of the reign of Henry VI . , flourished the poet Lydgate , and also the learned Sir John Fortescue , Chief Justice of the ...
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admirable adventures afterwards ancient appeared Bacon beautiful Boccaccio burlesque Byron Canterbury Tales character 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 Greek hero Hudibras human humour idea immortal inimitable intellect intense interest language Layamon learning less literary literature manners merit Middle Ages Milton mind mock-heroic modern moral narrative nature noble novels original Paradise Lost passages passion pathos peculiar perhaps period personages persons Petrarch philosophy picture picturesque poem poet poet's poetical poetry political Pope possessed principal productions prose racter reader religious remarkable rich romantic satire Saxon scenery scenes Scotland Scott sentiment Shakspeare singular society species Spenser spirit splendour style sublime sympathy tale taste tion tone Trouvères true verse versification vigorous wonderful words writings written
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Σελίδα 289 - 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. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
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 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 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 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 419 - Camoens soothed an exile's grief; The Sonnet glittered a gay myrtle leaf Amid the cypress with which Dante crowned His visionary brow: a glow-worm lamp, It cheered mild Spenser, called from Faery-land To struggle through dark ways ; and when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand...
Σελίδα 123 - 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 114 - 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.
Σελίδα 138 - They are foul Anomalies, of whom we know not whence they are sprung, nor whether they have beginning or ending. As they are without human passions, so they seem to be without human relations. They come with thunder and lightning, and vanish to airy musiC. This is all we know of them. Except Hecate, they have no names ; which heightens their mysteriousness.
Σελίδα 241 - Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; While wits and Templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers load, On wings of winds came flying all abroad?