Outlines of English Literature: By Thomas B. ShawBlanchard and Lea, 1852 - 465 σελίδες |
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... fiction , of Byronism , and of the present tendencies of poetry , may be found however imperfectly to possess some interest , were it only as the first executed - - · attempt to treat , in a popular manner , questions 1 * TO THE READER .
... fiction , of Byronism , and of the present tendencies of poetry , may be found however imperfectly to possess some interest , were it only as the first executed - - · attempt to treat , in a popular manner , questions 1 * TO THE READER .
Σελίδα x
... Fiction - Spain , Italy , and France - The Romance and the Novel · Defoe Robinson Crusoe - - - Source of its Charm- Defoe's Air of Reality - Minor Works- Richardson - Pamela- Clarissa Harlowe - Female Characters Sir Charles Grandison ...
... Fiction - Spain , Italy , and France - The Romance and the Novel · Defoe Robinson Crusoe - - - Source of its Charm- Defoe's Air of Reality - Minor Works- Richardson - Pamela- Clarissa Harlowe - Female Characters Sir Charles Grandison ...
Σελίδα xii
... Fiction - CHAPTER XIX . THE MODERN NOVELISTS . The Romance : Walpole , Mrs. Radcliffe , Lewis , James , Ainsworth , and Bulwer Maturin , and Mrs. Shelley - - - The Novel : Miss Burney Godwin Novels : Galt , Wilson , Banim , & c ...
... Fiction - CHAPTER XIX . THE MODERN NOVELISTS . The Romance : Walpole , Mrs. Radcliffe , Lewis , James , Ainsworth , and Bulwer Maturin , and Mrs. Shelley - - - The Novel : Miss Burney Godwin Novels : Galt , Wilson , Banim , & c ...
Σελίδα xiii
... Fiction Charles Brockden Brown His Novels James Fenimore Cooper- His Novels Their Po- pularity and Characteristics - Nathaniel Hawthorne - His Works and Genius - Other American Writers of Fiction ....... -- ― ..................... 453 ...
... Fiction Charles Brockden Brown His Novels James Fenimore Cooper- His Novels Their Po- pularity and Characteristics - Nathaniel Hawthorne - His Works and Genius - Other American Writers of Fiction ....... -- ― ..................... 453 ...
Σελίδα xii
... Fiction - CHAPTER XIX . THE MODERN NOVELISTS . The Romance : Walpole , Mrs. Radcliffe , Lewis , ― James , Ainsworth , and Bulwer Godwin Maturin , and Mrs. Shelley The Novel : Miss Burney- Novels : Galt , Wilson , Banim , & c . - Lister ...
... Fiction - CHAPTER XIX . THE MODERN NOVELISTS . The Romance : Walpole , Mrs. Radcliffe , Lewis , ― James , Ainsworth , and Bulwer Godwin Maturin , and Mrs. Shelley The Novel : Miss Burney- Novels : Galt , Wilson , Banim , & c . - Lister ...
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Σελίδα 299 - 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 236 - 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 243 - 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 246 - 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 170 - 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 146 - To whom the good man replied, "My dear George, if Saints have usually a double share in the miseries of this life, I, that am none, ought not to repine at what my wise Creator hath appointed for me: but labour — as indeed -I do daily — to submit mine to his will, and possess my soul in patience and peace.
Σελίδα 125 - 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 216 - 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 193 - 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.