Outlines of English Literature: By Thomas B. ShawBlanchard and Lea, 1852 - 465 Seiten |
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... least form clear ideas of the main boundaries and divisions of English literature ; whilst the frequent change of topic will , the author trusts , render these pages much less tiresome and monotonous than a regular sytematic treatise ...
... least form clear ideas of the main boundaries and divisions of English literature ; whilst the frequent change of topic will , the author trusts , render these pages much less tiresome and monotonous than a regular sytematic treatise ...
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... least exposed to foreign admixture , the ancient race is yet slowly losing its marked peculiarities ; and the day will probably come when the wild mountain fastnesses , which formed an insuperable barrier to the Roman sword and to the ...
... least exposed to foreign admixture , the ancient race is yet slowly losing its marked peculiarities ; and the day will probably come when the wild mountain fastnesses , which formed an insuperable barrier to the Roman sword and to the ...
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... least as far as their orthography is concerned , to have reached among us a greater purity than they have in French , Italian , or even in Spanish . " Nothing can be more difficult , " says the judicious and accurate Hallam , " than to ...
... least as far as their orthography is concerned , to have reached among us a greater purity than they have in French , Italian , or even in Spanish . " Nothing can be more difficult , " says the judicious and accurate Hallam , " than to ...
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... least a hundred years from this time : it may be remarked that some few French words had crept in before this period , and also a considerable Latinising tendency may be remarked ; but the changes of which we are speaking are rather of ...
... least a hundred years from this time : it may be remarked that some few French words had crept in before this period , and also a considerable Latinising tendency may be remarked ; but the changes of which we are speaking are rather of ...
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... least for the common business of life , the French and the Latin . In the following century , and at the beginning of the reign of Henry VI . , flourished the poet Lydgate , and also the learned Sir John Fortescue , Chief Justice of the ...
... least for the common business of life , the French and the Latin . In the following century , and at the beginning of the reign of Henry VI . , flourished the poet Lydgate , and also the learned Sir John Fortescue , Chief Justice of the ...
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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.