Outlines of English LiteratureH.C. Lea, 1865 - 489 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 30
... true origin of the language the dialect to which the greater number should be found to belong . No ; we must pay some attention to the nature and significance of the vocables themselves , and also to the degree of primitiveness and ...
... true origin of the language the dialect to which the greater number should be found to belong . No ; we must pay some attention to the nature and significance of the vocables themselves , and also to the degree of primitiveness and ...
Σελίδα 32
... true ancient pronunciation in this particular . The same conclusion may be arrived at , we think not unfairly , with reference to the English w , the letter corresponding to which in Ger • man , viz . w , seems to have lost 32 [ CHAP ...
... true ancient pronunciation in this particular . The same conclusion may be arrived at , we think not unfairly , with reference to the English w , the letter corresponding to which in Ger • man , viz . w , seems to have lost 32 [ CHAP ...
Σελίδα 45
... true starting- point of the English literature properly so called . In Italy letters appear to have revived after the long and gloomy period characterised by the somewhat false term of " the dark ages , " with astonishing rapidity ...
... true starting- point of the English literature properly so called . In Italy letters appear to have revived after the long and gloomy period characterised by the somewhat false term of " the dark ages , " with astonishing rapidity ...
Σελίδα 68
... true events in Sidney's own chivalrous life , and transcripts from his own gentle and heroic heart . We cannot better conclude our notice on this work than by a selection from the remarks of Disraeli : - " He de- scribes objects on ...
... true events in Sidney's own chivalrous life , and transcripts from his own gentle and heroic heart . We cannot better conclude our notice on this work than by a selection from the remarks of Disraeli : - " He de- scribes objects on ...
Σελίδα 73
... true that some of the measures recommended by Spenser are of a violent and coercive character ; but we should be unwise to expect in a writer of the sixteenth century a tone of mildness and toleration unknown in politics previous to the ...
... true that some of the measures recommended by Spenser are of a violent and coercive character ; but we should be unwise to expect in a writer of the sixteenth century a tone of mildness and toleration unknown in politics previous to the ...
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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.