Outlines of English LiteratureH.C. Lea, 1865 - 489 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα viii
... respecting him- His Mar- riage Early Studies- Goes to London- His Career- - Death and Monument - Order of his Works - Roman Plays - His Diction – Characters .... --- .. 110 CHAPTER VII . THE SHAKSPEARIAN DRAMATISTS . Ben Jonson - viii ...
... respecting him- His Mar- riage Early Studies- Goes to London- His Career- - Death and Monument - Order of his Works - Roman Plays - His Diction – Characters .... --- .. 110 CHAPTER VII . THE SHAKSPEARIAN DRAMATISTS . Ben Jonson - viii ...
Σελίδα 32
... respects , so many analogies between their language and our own . These are , among others , the sound , or rather the two distinct sounds , of the th . A very little explanation would suffice to render at all events the theoretical ...
... respects , so many analogies between their language and our own . These are , among others , the sound , or rather the two distinct sounds , of the th . A very little explanation would suffice to render at all events the theoretical ...
Σελίδα 35
... respect to this excellent and comprehensive judgment , it is only necessary to remark , that in tracing practically ... respects the word was trun- cated - and it is of no consequence whether this contraction took place gradually or ...
... respect to this excellent and comprehensive judgment , it is only necessary to remark , that in tracing practically ... respects the word was trun- cated - and it is of no consequence whether this contraction took place gradually or ...
Σελίδα 36
... respect to such followers of outlandish fashions , which is not destitute of a certain drollery and salt : " Jacke , " they said , " woud be a gentilman if he coud bot speke Frenshe . " It is known , too , that in the first part of his ...
... respect to such followers of outlandish fashions , which is not destitute of a certain drollery and salt : " Jacke , " they said , " woud be a gentilman if he coud bot speke Frenshe . " It is known , too , that in the first part of his ...
Σελίδα 37
... respecting the language and manners of the larger portion of their subjects . We read that Henry II . , who ascended the throne in 1154 , having been once addressed by a number of his own subjects during a journey into Pembrokeshire ...
... respecting the language and manners of the larger portion of their subjects . We read that Henry II . , who ascended the throne in 1154 , having been once addressed by a number of his own subjects during a journey into Pembrokeshire ...
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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.