Outlines of English LiteratureSheldon & Company, 1866 - 465 Seiten |
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... , of Byronism , and of the present tendencies of poetry , may be found - however imperfectly executed to possess some interest , were it only as the first - attempt to treat , in a popular manner , questions 1 * TO THE READER .
... , of Byronism , and of the present tendencies of poetry , may be found - however imperfectly executed to possess some interest , were it only as the first - attempt to treat , in a popular manner , questions 1 * TO THE READER .
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... possess large collections of very ancient and curious poems written in the respective dialects of the great Celtic speech ; and yet , notwithstanding all this , the number of Celtic words which have taken root in the English language is ...
... possess large collections of very ancient and curious poems written in the respective dialects of the great Celtic speech ; and yet , notwithstanding all this , the number of Celtic words which have taken root in the English language is ...
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... possess equivalents in every human speech , however rude its state or imperfect its development . Following this important rule , we shall find that all the primary ideas , and all the simpler objects , natural and artificial , are ...
... possess equivalents in every human speech , however rude its state or imperfect its development . Following this important rule , we shall find that all the primary ideas , and all the simpler objects , natural and artificial , are ...
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... possess , viz . so high a degree of individuality that the reader forgets that the per- sons of the little drama are animals , and sympathizes with them as human beings ; the Merchant's Tale , which , like the comic stories generally ...
... possess , viz . so high a degree of individuality that the reader forgets that the per- sons of the little drama are animals , and sympathizes with them as human beings ; the Merchant's Tale , which , like the comic stories generally ...
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... possess . Homer and Shakspeare will ever be read with increasing ardour and veneration , and this because their works reflect , not so much a period or a nation , as the universal heart of man — the same in every climate and in every ...
... possess . Homer and Shakspeare will ever be read with increasing ardour and veneration , and this because their works reflect , not so much a period or a nation , as the universal heart of man — the same in every climate and in every ...
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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.