Outlines of English LiteratureH.C. Lea, 1865 - 489 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα iii
... edition is therefore presented in the hope that it will be found even more worthy than the former of the wide popularity which the work has acquired . PHILADELPHIA , June , 1852 . ( iii ) TO THE READER . THE author of the following pages.
... edition is therefore presented in the hope that it will be found even more worthy than the former of the wide popularity which the work has acquired . PHILADELPHIA , June , 1852 . ( iii ) TO THE READER . THE author of the following pages.
Σελίδα iv
Thomas Budd Shaw Henry Theodore Tuckerman. TO THE READER . THE author of the following pages has been engaged , during some years , as Professor of English Literature in the Imperial Alexander Lyceum of St. Petersburg ; and , both in the ...
Thomas Budd Shaw Henry Theodore Tuckerman. TO THE READER . THE author of the following pages has been engaged , during some years , as Professor of English Literature in the Imperial Alexander Lyceum of St. Petersburg ; and , both in the ...
Σελίδα v
... reader's mind before he can profit- ably enter upon the details of the subject , only the greater the greater types of each period- have been exa- mined ; whilst the inferior , or merely imitative , writers have been unscrupulously ...
... reader's mind before he can profit- ably enter upon the details of the subject , only the greater the greater types of each period- have been exa- mined ; whilst the inferior , or merely imitative , writers have been unscrupulously ...
Σελίδα vi
... novelty in its plan , and the attempt to render it as little dry — as read- able , in short as was consistent with accuracy and com- prehensiveness . ― - CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE . Britons Their TO THE READER .
... novelty in its plan , and the attempt to render it as little dry — as read- able , in short as was consistent with accuracy and com- prehensiveness . ― - CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE . Britons Their TO THE READER .
Σελίδα 30
... reader will conclude that , for all practical pur- poses of analogy or of derivation , it has exerted no appreciable influ- ence on the modern speech of the country . Some few words indeed have been adopted into English from the tongue ...
... reader will conclude that , for all practical pur- poses of analogy or of derivation , it has exerted no appreciable influ- ence on the modern speech of the country . Some few words indeed have been adopted into English from the tongue ...
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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.