Outlines of English literatureJ. Murray, 1849 - 540 Seiten |
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... mind . The Monk is a gallant , richly- dressed , and pleasure - loving sportsman , caring not a straw for the obsolete strictness of the musty rule of his order . His sleeves are edged with rich fur , his hood fastened under his chin ...
... mind . The Monk is a gallant , richly- dressed , and pleasure - loving sportsman , caring not a straw for the obsolete strictness of the musty rule of his order . His sleeves are edged with rich fur , his hood fastened under his chin ...
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... mind is like that of some gorgeous tissue , gold - inwoven , of tapestry , in an old baronial hall ; full of tournaments and battles , imprisoned knights , and emblazoned banners , Gothic temples of Mars and Venus , the lists , the ...
... mind is like that of some gorgeous tissue , gold - inwoven , of tapestry , in an old baronial hall ; full of tournaments and battles , imprisoned knights , and emblazoned banners , Gothic temples of Mars and Venus , the lists , the ...
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... mind as Milton's , so gorgeous , so stately , so heroic , and imbued with all the splendour of Oriental litera- ture ; for the scenery and subject of this poem bear evident marks of that Arabian influence which colours so much of the ...
... mind as Milton's , so gorgeous , so stately , so heroic , and imbued with all the splendour of Oriental litera- ture ; for the scenery and subject of this poem bear evident marks of that Arabian influence which colours so much of the ...
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... mind . The throne of Poland , to which he was elected , could hardly have conferred additional splen- dour upon so consummate a character ; and we almost approve of the jealous admiration of Elizabeth , who prevented him from mounting ...
... mind . The throne of Poland , to which he was elected , could hardly have conferred additional splen- dour upon so consummate a character ; and we almost approve of the jealous admiration of Elizabeth , who prevented him from mounting ...
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... mind us of young , thoughtful scholars , who have , “ for very wantonness , " put on the garb of rustics , and whose elegant and graceful thoughts are breathed in the language not of the field but of the study . This work , besides ...
... mind us of young , thoughtful scholars , who have , “ for very wantonness , " put on the garb of rustics , and whose elegant and graceful thoughts are breathed in the language not of the field but of the study . This work , besides ...
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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.