Outlines of English LiteratureH.C. Lea, 1865 - 489 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 44
... sense which characterises , with occasional splendid exceptions , the prose ; and that unimaginative and monotonous classicism which marks the courtly school of poetry , and which was not to be sup- planted by anything truly national ...
... sense which characterises , with occasional splendid exceptions , the prose ; and that unimaginative and monotonous classicism which marks the courtly school of poetry , and which was not to be sup- planted by anything truly national ...
Σελίδα 47
... sense a man of the world : he was the orna- ment of two of the most brilliant courts in the annals of England— those of Edward III . , and his successor Richard II . He also accom- panied the former king in his expedition into France ...
... sense a man of the world : he was the orna- ment of two of the most brilliant courts in the annals of England— those of Edward III . , and his successor Richard II . He also accom- panied the former king in his expedition into France ...
Σελίδα 59
... sense with which honest Harry Bailey , the Host , sways the merry sceptre of his temporary sovereignty . This then is the framework or scaffolding on which Chaucer has erected his Canterbury Tales . The practice of connecting together a ...
... sense with which honest Harry Bailey , the Host , sways the merry sceptre of his temporary sovereignty . This then is the framework or scaffolding on which Chaucer has erected his Canterbury Tales . The practice of connecting together a ...
Σελίδα 80
... sense of the services he had rendered to the human race , " his name and memory to foreign nations , and to mine own country after some time is passed over . " It is singular enough that the death of this great philosopher shoula nave ...
... sense of the services he had rendered to the human race , " his name and memory to foreign nations , and to mine own country after some time is passed over . " It is singular enough that the death of this great philosopher shoula nave ...
Σελίδα 83
... sense and reason for the support of its deductions , but to tradition and authority , and maintaining its supremacy , not by arguments , but by persecution and violence , by the sword , the dungeon , and the stake . There are few ...
... sense and reason for the support of its deductions , but to tradition and authority , and maintaining its supremacy , not by arguments , but by persecution and violence , by the sword , the dungeon , and the stake . There are few ...
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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.