A New Primer of English LiteratureG. Bell & sons, 1909 - 216 Seiten |
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Addison allegory Anglo-Saxon ballads beauty Bell's Ben Jonson Beowulf blank verse Byron called Canterbury Tales century character Chaucer classical Coleridge comedy composition contemporary critic diction drama dramatists Dryden E. C. MARCHANT Edited Elementary Elizabethan England English literature epic Essays Euphuism expression Faerie Queene famous feeling French genius Grammar greatest Greek heroic couplet History Hudibras humour Illustrated imagination imitate influence Italian J. P. POSTGATE Johnson Keats kind King King Arthur language later Latin learned literary LITT.D LL.D M.A. Book manner MARK HUNTER masterpieces matter Milton mind minstrel modern moral narrative nature novel novelist passion period philosophy Plautus plays poems poet poetic poetry political Pope Pope's popular Prof prose readers rhyme romance satire Scott Shakespeare Shelley sonnets Spenser spirit story style Swift Tennyson things thought Translated Tudor Revival verse vols W. M. BAKER words Wordsworth writers written wrote
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Seite 122 - I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
Seite 171 - I trust is their destiny ? — to console the afflicted, to add sunshine to daylight, by making the happy happier; to teach the young and the gracious of every age to see, to think, and feel, and therefore to become more actively and% securely virtuous...
Seite 12 - definitions,' or more properly, ' explanations of meaning ' in ' Webster ' have always struck me as particularly terse and well-put ; and it is hard to see how anything better could be done within the limits.
Seite 73 - This grew speedily to an excess; for men began to hunt more after words than matter; and more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with tropes and figures, than after the weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment.
Seite 2 - MACMICHAEL'S Edition, revised by JE MELHUISH, MA, Assistant Master at St Paul's School. In separate Books.
Seite 12 - The new edition of " Webster's International Dictionary " is undoubtedly the most useful and reliable work of its kind in any country. No one who has not examined the work carefully would believe that such a vast amount of lexicographical information could possibly be found within so small a compass.
Seite 142 - The general purpose of this Paper is to expose the false arts of life, to pull off the disguises of cunning, vanity, and affectation, and to recommend a general simplicity in our dress, our discourse, and our behaviour.
Seite 142 - As the great and only end of these my speculations is, to banish vice and ignorance out of the territories of Great Britain, I shall endeavour as much as possible to establish among us a taste of polite writing.
Seite 101 - Ladies, 1664, that great critic remarks : ' the excellence and dignity of rhyme were never fully known till Mr. Waller taught it ; he first made writing easily an art, first showed us to conclude the sense, most commonly, in distichs, which in the verse of those before him runs on for so many lines together, that the reader is out of breath to overtake it.
Seite 135 - At last, The Clouds consign their treasures to the fields, And, softly shaking on the dimpled pool Prelusive drops, let all their moisture flow, In large effusion, o'er the freshened world.