Outlines of English LiteratureSheldon & Company, 1866 - 465 Seiten |
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... idea so exclusively Celtic that it forms a perfect and untranslatable sign of that idea ; while " cairn , " though by no means peculiar to the Celts , and defining a mode of honourable burial universal in former ages ( as testified by ...
... idea so exclusively Celtic that it forms a perfect and untranslatable sign of that idea ; while " cairn , " though by no means peculiar to the Celts , and defining a mode of honourable burial universal in former ages ( as testified by ...
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... ideas which are of the simplest and most obvious charac ter are represented in English by words derived from the ... idea be a Saxon or a Latin word , by observing whether that object be a primitive and simple or a complex and arti ...
... ideas which are of the simplest and most obvious charac ter are represented in English by words derived from the ... idea be a Saxon or a Latin word , by observing whether that object be a primitive and simple or a complex and arti ...
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... idea of the difficulty encoun- sered by philologists in fixing the exact period at which the Saxon merged into the English , than the great variety of decisions founded upon the style of this work ; some of our most learned antiquarians ...
... idea of the difficulty encoun- sered by philologists in fixing the exact period at which the Saxon merged into the English , than the great variety of decisions founded upon the style of this work ; some of our most learned antiquarians ...
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... idea of the scope and cha- racter of English literature than we could expect to afford them by a more elaborate and detailed work , the materials for which are so abundant , that it would require not a volume but a library to develop ...
... idea of the scope and cha- racter of English literature than we could expect to afford them by a more elaborate and detailed work , the materials for which are so abundant , that it would require not a volume but a library to develop ...
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... idea , uot improbable , that Shakspeare drew his fine conceptions of female character from Sidney . Shakspeare solely , of all our elder dramatists , has given true beauty to woman ; and Shakspeare was an attentive reader of the ...
... idea , uot improbable , that Shakspeare drew his fine conceptions of female character from Sidney . Shakspeare solely , of all our elder dramatists , has given true beauty to woman ; and Shakspeare was an attentive reader of the ...
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Seite 47 - 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.
Seite 285 - 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.
Seite 293 - 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.
Seite 230 - 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.
Seite 240 - 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.
Seite 214 - 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.
Seite 130 - 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.
Seite 119 - 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!
Seite 164 - 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...
Seite 210 - Though mark'd by none but quick, poetic eyes : (So Rome's great founder to the heavens withdrew, To Proculus alone confess'd in view :) A sudden star, it shot through liquid air, And drew behind a radiant trail of hair.