Outlines of English LiteratureSheldon & Company, 1866 - 465 Seiten |
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... means peculiar to the Celts , and defining a mode of honourable burial universal in former ages ( as testified by the xauos of the Greek heroic age , by the tumulus of the Etruscan peoples , and by the bar- rows of the Teutons ) , was ...
... means peculiar to the Celts , and defining a mode of honourable burial universal in former ages ( as testified by the xauos of the Greek heroic age , by the tumulus of the Etruscan peoples , and by the bar- rows of the Teutons ) , was ...
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... means to be considered as involving such great difficulty as is generally attributed to them ; and in a majority of cases they will be found much less capricious than is usually supposed . One considerable portion of the above ...
... means to be considered as involving such great difficulty as is generally attributed to them ; and in a majority of cases they will be found much less capricious than is usually supposed . One considerable portion of the above ...
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... means necessary to enter into any very minute details of philological archæ- ology : our task will be more agreeably , and certainly not less profita- bly fulfilled , if we content ourselves with accompanying , with due reverence and a ...
... means necessary to enter into any very minute details of philological archæ- ology : our task will be more agreeably , and certainly not less profita- bly fulfilled , if we content ourselves with accompanying , with due reverence and a ...
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... means to be supposed that the invasion of the Normans under William was the first point of contact between the Saxon and French races in England , and that it is to that event that we must attribute the first fusion : on the contrary ...
... means to be supposed that the invasion of the Normans under William was the first point of contact between the Saxon and French races in England , and that it is to that event that we must attribute the first fusion : on the contrary ...
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... means understood . " Here , then , we see the revolution gradually becoming complete , and the English idiom finally succeeding in supplanting , at least for the common business of life , the French and the Latin . In the following ...
... means understood . " Here , then , we see the revolution gradually becoming complete , and the English idiom finally succeeding in supplanting , at least for the common business of life , the French and the Latin . In the following ...
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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.