Outlines of English LiteratureH.C. Lea, 1865 - 489 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 28
... tion which extended over a period of 470 years , i . e . from 60 B.C. to A.D. 410 — there can be no doubt but that a considerable part of the indigenous population submitted to the victorious invaders , and con- tinued to occupy their ...
... tion which extended over a period of 470 years , i . e . from 60 B.C. to A.D. 410 — there can be no doubt but that a considerable part of the indigenous population submitted to the victorious invaders , and con- tinued to occupy their ...
Σελίδα 32
... tion prevalent in either the one or the other of those sources . Among the singularities of the English pronunciation which place , as it were , upon the threshold of the language so many unexpected obstacles in the way of the foreigner ...
... tion prevalent in either the one or the other of those sources . Among the singularities of the English pronunciation which place , as it were , upon the threshold of the language so many unexpected obstacles in the way of the foreigner ...
Σελίδα 35
... tion of an inflected into an uninflected language , or even into one less completely and regularly inflected : a very long list has been made , nay , an almost complete vocabulary might be compiled , of words in the French language ...
... tion of an inflected into an uninflected language , or even into one less completely and regularly inflected : a very long list has been made , nay , an almost complete vocabulary might be compiled , of words in the French language ...
Σελίδα 46
... tion . He was an indefatigable translator ; and the whole of many-- nay , a great part of all - his works bears unequivocal traces of the prevailing taste for imitation . How much he has improved upon his models , what new lights he has ...
... tion . He was an indefatigable translator ; and the whole of many-- nay , a great part of all - his works bears unequivocal traces of the prevailing taste for imitation . How much he has improved upon his models , what new lights he has ...
Σελίδα 50
... tion of Death , standing armed at the gate , is a grand and sublime thought , of which no trace is to be found in the comparatively flat original ; not to mention the terrible distinctness with which Chaucer enumerates Old Age's ...
... tion of Death , standing armed at the gate , is a grand and sublime thought , of which no trace is to be found in the comparatively flat original ; not to mention the terrible distinctness with which Chaucer enumerates Old Age's ...
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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.