Outlines of English literatureJ. Murray, 1849 - 540 Seiten |
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... SCOTT AND SOUTHEY . Walter Scott - The Lay of the Last Minstrel - Marmion - Lady of the Lake - Lord of the Isles - Waverley - Guy Mannering - Anti- quary — Tales of my Landlord - Ivanhoe - Monastery and Abbot -Kenilworth - Pirate ...
... SCOTT AND SOUTHEY . Walter Scott - The Lay of the Last Minstrel - Marmion - Lady of the Lake - Lord of the Isles - Waverley - Guy Mannering - Anti- quary — Tales of my Landlord - Ivanhoe - Monastery and Abbot -Kenilworth - Pirate ...
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... Scott , for example - who found the Celtic expression either more picturesque and forcible than the equi- valent which already existed in English ( of Norman or Saxon origin ) , or else a lively and characteristic image for some object ...
... Scott , for example - who found the Celtic expression either more picturesque and forcible than the equi- valent which already existed in English ( of Norman or Saxon origin ) , or else a lively and characteristic image for some object ...
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... epoch illustrated by the contemporary names of Lord Byron , Scott , and Wordsworth . As to the elementary constitution of the English language as spoken and written in the present day , the 26 [ CHAP . I. OUTLINES OF GENERAL LITERATURE .
... epoch illustrated by the contemporary names of Lord Byron , Scott , and Wordsworth . As to the elementary constitution of the English language as spoken and written in the present day , the 26 [ CHAP . I. OUTLINES OF GENERAL LITERATURE .
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... Scott , and Dickens , though possessing the far greater facilities afforded by narrative fiction , have seldom succeeded in rendering such characters interesting in themselves ; that is , independently of the circumstances which ...
... Scott , and Dickens , though possessing the far greater facilities afforded by narrative fiction , have seldom succeeded in rendering such characters interesting in themselves ; that is , independently of the circumstances which ...
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... Scott has happily called " forging the handwriting of nature , " i . e . perfectly imitat- ing the plain and unaffected air of truthful narration , we have only to add that singular triumph of his peculiar skill in this art , his tract ...
... Scott has happily called " forging the handwriting of nature , " i . e . perfectly imitat- ing the plain and unaffected air of truthful narration , we have only to add that singular triumph of his peculiar skill in this art , his tract ...
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Seite 348 - 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 212 - 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.
Seite 336 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berccau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
Seite 266 - 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 181 - 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 243 - But why then publish * Granville the polite, And knowing Walsh, would tell me I could write ; Well-natured Garth inflamed with early praise, And Congreve loved, and Swift endured my lays ; The courtly Talbot, Somers, Sheffield read, Ev'n mitred Rochester would nod the head, And St. John's self (great Dryden's friends before) With open arms received one poet more.
Seite 122 - 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 242 - 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 110 - Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone : regard his hellish fall, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise Only to wonder at unlawful things, Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits To practise more than heavenly power permits.