Outlines of English LiteratureLea, 1849 - 435 σελίδες |
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... thoughts , but to acquire a clearer notion of the peculiar me- rits of each author than he could obtain from the meagre and unconnected fragments to be found in the existing col- lections of English prose and verse . London , August ...
... thoughts , but to acquire a clearer notion of the peculiar me- rits of each author than he could obtain from the meagre and unconnected fragments to be found in the existing col- lections of English prose and verse . London , August ...
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... Thoughts - Young's Style -- His Wit 205 CHAPTER XIII . SWIFT AND THE ESSAYISTS . Coarseness of Manners in the 17th and 18th Centuries - Jonathan Swift- Battle of the Books - Tale of a Tub - Pamphlets - Stella and Vanessa- Drapier's ...
... Thoughts - Young's Style -- His Wit 205 CHAPTER XIII . SWIFT AND THE ESSAYISTS . Coarseness of Manners in the 17th and 18th Centuries - Jonathan Swift- Battle of the Books - Tale of a Tub - Pamphlets - Stella and Vanessa- Drapier's ...
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... fall into disuse ; the learned adopting their vernacular language as a medium for their thoughts . The increasing neglect of the Latin is to be attributed to the secret 26 [ CHAP . I. OUTLINES OF GENERAL LITERATURE .
... fall into disuse ; the learned adopting their vernacular language as a medium for their thoughts . The increasing neglect of the Latin is to be attributed to the secret 26 [ CHAP . I. OUTLINES OF GENERAL LITERATURE .
Σελίδα 29
... thought fit to give to the world an Eng- lish version of the same curious work . 66 In his translation of Higden , Trevisa avoids what he calls " the old and ancient Englische ; " and the same author gives a most terrifying description ...
... thought fit to give to the world an Eng- lish version of the same curious work . 66 In his translation of Higden , Trevisa avoids what he calls " the old and ancient Englische ; " and the same author gives a most terrifying description ...
Σελίδα 33
... thought and ex- pression in that splendid epoch illustrated by the contemporary names of Lord Byron , Scott , and Wordsworth . As to the elementary constitution of the English language as spoken and written in the present day , the ...
... thought and ex- pression in that splendid epoch illustrated by the contemporary names of Lord Byron , Scott , and Wordsworth . As to the elementary constitution of the English language as spoken and written in the present day , the ...
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Σελίδα 41 - Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine: I have never heard Praise of love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine.
Σελίδα 297 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
Σελίδα 187 - Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.
Σελίδα 288 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berccau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
Σελίδα 231 - 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 239 - Peace to all such! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent, and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Σελίδα 242 - 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 127 - 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 151 - With antic pillars massy proof, And storied windows, richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow To the full-voiced choir below, In service high and anthems clear, As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all heaven before mine eyes.
Σελίδα 116 - 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!