Outlines of English Literature: By Thomas B. ShawBlanchard and Lea, 1852 - 465 Seiten |
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... intellect of Italy burst forth , in the fourteenth century , into a tro- pical luxuriance , putting out its fairest flowers of poetry , and its olidest and most beautiful fruits of wisdom and of wit . Dante died seven years before , and ...
... intellect of Italy burst forth , in the fourteenth century , into a tro- pical luxuriance , putting out its fairest flowers of poetry , and its olidest and most beautiful fruits of wisdom and of wit . Dante died seven years before , and ...
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... intellect of England had lately been engaged in a struggle for its liberty and its religion ; it had had time to repose , but not to be enfee- bled : it now started on its race of immortality , glowing , indeed , from the arena , but ...
... intellect of England had lately been engaged in a struggle for its liberty and its religion ; it had had time to repose , but not to be enfee- bled : it now started on its race of immortality , glowing , indeed , from the arena , but ...
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... intellect soars aloft with steadiest , broadest , and sublimest wing into the calmer empyrean of poetry or philosophy— " Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth . " The great revolution to which we have been ...
... intellect soars aloft with steadiest , broadest , and sublimest wing into the calmer empyrean of poetry or philosophy— " Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth . " The great revolution to which we have been ...
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... intellect , when we learn that when hardly sixteen he had formed distinct notions respecting the defects of the Aristotelian system of philosophy , and had no doubt already conceived CHAP . IV . ] BACON HIS BIRTH AND EDUCATION . 77.
... intellect , when we learn that when hardly sixteen he had formed distinct notions respecting the defects of the Aristotelian system of philosophy , and had no doubt already conceived CHAP . IV . ] BACON HIS BIRTH AND EDUCATION . 77.
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... intellect could surprise us on the part of this astonishing person . It is obvious that he had already felt the mysterious vocation of genius - that secret oracle which points out to the highest order of minds the true path which ...
... intellect could surprise us on the part of this astonishing person . It is obvious that he had already felt the mysterious vocation of genius - that secret oracle which points out to the highest order of minds the true path which ...
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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.