Outlines of English LiteratureH.C. Lea, 1865 - 489 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 37
... effect of the Norman invasion , for hardly any new accession of French words is perceptible in it for at 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 ...
... effect of the Norman invasion , for hardly any new accession of French words is perceptible in it for at 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 ...
Σελίδα 57
... effect by quoting it piecemeal in this place , but refer our readers to the volume of extracts , in vhich the whole of Chaucer's Prologue will be found at length . Then we find enumerated a Reve , a Miller , a Sompnour ( an officer in ...
... effect by quoting it piecemeal in this place , but refer our readers to the volume of extracts , in vhich the whole of Chaucer's Prologue will be found at length . Then we find enumerated a Reve , a Miller , a Sompnour ( an officer in ...
Σελίδα 60
... this poem without finishing it , or ever read it once without returning to it a second time . The effect upon the mind is No like that of some gorgeous tissue , gold - inwoven 60 [ CHAP . II . OUTLINES OF GENERAL LITERATURE .
... this poem without finishing it , or ever read it once without returning to it a second time . The effect upon the mind is No like that of some gorgeous tissue , gold - inwoven 60 [ CHAP . II . OUTLINES OF GENERAL LITERATURE .
Σελίδα 74
... effect of the whole majestic structure . Spenser sup- posed the Fairy Queen to appear in a vision to Prince Arthur , who , awaking deeply enamoured , resolves on seeking his unearthly mistress in Faery Land . The poet then represents ...
... effect of the whole majestic structure . Spenser sup- posed the Fairy Queen to appear in a vision to Prince Arthur , who , awaking deeply enamoured , resolves on seeking his unearthly mistress in Faery Land . The poet then represents ...
Σελίδα 75
... effect in modifying the genius of Spenser . The ' Faery Queen ' is written in a peculiar versification to which we have given the name of the " Spenserian stanza . " It is really nothing more than the Italian " ottava rima , " or eight ...
... effect in modifying the genius of Spenser . The ' Faery Queen ' is written in a peculiar versification to which we have given the name of the " Spenserian stanza . " It is really nothing more than the Italian " ottava rima , " or eight ...
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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 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 218 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies ; ' The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.
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 160 - Areopagitica: A Speech for the Liberty of unlicensed Printing, to the Parliament of England.
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 157 - Or the unseen Genius of the wood. But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.
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 266 - The successors of Charles V. may disdain their brethren of England: but the romance of 'Tom Jones,' that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the palace of the Escurial and the Imperial Eagle of Austria.