Outlines of English Literature: By Thomas B. ShawBlanchard and Lea, 1852 - 465 Seiten |
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... genius , character , and capabilities of a nation can in no way be so well studied as in its language . From the earliest periods of our history the Celtic race has existed over the whole or a notable portion of the British islands ...
... genius , character , and capabilities of a nation can in no way be so well studied as in its language . From the earliest periods of our history the Celtic race has existed over the whole or a notable portion of the British islands ...
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... genius , what he took , not as a plagiarist , but as a conqueror , from Petrarca and from Boccaccio . Gower , too , who was born shortly before the year 1340 , mainly helped to polish and refine the language of his country ; and though ...
... genius , what he took , not as a plagiarist , but as a conqueror , from Petrarca and from Boccaccio . Gower , too , who was born shortly before the year 1340 , mainly helped to polish and refine the language of his country ; and though ...
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... genius , levelled the keen and brilliant shafts of his ridicule against the fantastic Euphuism or Italianated pedantry of the court , exactly as Rabelais has gibbeted in immortal burlesque the " Pinda- rizing " Latinity of the pedants ...
... genius , levelled the keen and brilliant shafts of his ridicule against the fantastic Euphuism or Italianated pedantry of the court , exactly as Rabelais has gibbeted in immortal burlesque the " Pinda- rizing " Latinity of the pedants ...
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... genius of these great men . How great that influence was , we shall presently see . The great causes , then , which modified and directed the genius of Chaucer were - first , the new Italian poetry , which then suddenly burst forth upon ...
... genius of these great men . How great that influence was , we shall presently see . The great causes , then , which modified and directed the genius of Chaucer were - first , the new Italian poetry , which then suddenly burst forth upon ...
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... genius - one " a pour Persoune , " or secular parish priest ; and his brother in simplicity , virtue , and evangelic purity , a Plowman . It is in these characters , and particularly in the " Tale " put into the mouth of the former ...
... genius - one " a pour Persoune , " or secular parish priest ; and his brother in simplicity , virtue , and evangelic purity , a Plowman . It is in these characters , and particularly in the " Tale " put into the mouth of the former ...
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Seite 299 - 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 236 - 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 243 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Seite 246 - 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 170 - 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 136 - 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 146 - To whom the good man replied, "My dear George, if Saints have usually a double share in the miseries of this life, I, that am none, ought not to repine at what my wise Creator hath appointed for me: but labour — as indeed -I do daily — to submit mine to his will, and possess my soul in patience and peace.
Seite 125 - 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 216 - 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.
Seite 193 - 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.