Outlines of English LiteratureSheldon & Company, 1866 - 465 Seiten |
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... periods of our history the Celtic race has existed over the whole or a notable portion of the British islands ; the ... period , and the words so adopted have generally been transferred by poets and writers of fiction - Scott , for ...
... periods of our history the Celtic race has existed over the whole or a notable portion of the British islands ; the ... period , and the words so adopted have generally been transferred by poets and writers of fiction - Scott , for ...
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... period of anarchy and bloodshed which intervened be- tween the departure of the Romans and the arrival of the Saxon hordes in 449 , and the gradual foundation in England of the Eight Kingdoms , the country must be conceived to have gone ...
... period of anarchy and bloodshed which intervened be- tween the departure of the Romans and the arrival of the Saxon hordes in 449 , and the gradual foundation in England of the Eight Kingdoms , the country must be conceived to have gone ...
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... period , and also a considerable Latinising tendency may be remarked ; but the changes of which we are speaking are rather of form than of matter , and are generally referable to one or other of the various causes which have been ...
... period , and also a considerable Latinising tendency may be remarked ; but the changes of which we are speaking are rather of form than of matter , and are generally referable to one or other of the various causes which have been ...
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... period as a harsh but vigorous and expressive idiom , containing in itself the seeds or capabilities of future perfection . This century , too , is cha- racterised by the circumstance of Latin having begun to fall into disuse ; the ...
... period as a harsh but vigorous and expressive idiom , containing in itself the seeds or capabilities of future perfection . This century , too , is cha- racterised by the circumstance of Latin having begun to fall into disuse ; the ...
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... period was disfigured by the most barbarous and capricious orthography , it is surprising how similar it is , in point of structure and intelligibleness , to the English of the present day . Twelve years after this , by the wisdom and ...
... period was disfigured by the most barbarous and capricious orthography , it is surprising how similar it is , in point of structure and intelligibleness , to the English of the present day . Twelve years after this , by the wisdom and ...
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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.