Studies in English, Band 5University of Texas Press, 1925 |
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... Poetry " published by Ginn & Co .; and that as a pioneer in the fur- therance of English work in the South , he was second only to Thomas R. Price . Besides the University of Virginia , two colleges of that state had a noteworthy part ...
... Poetry " published by Ginn & Co .; and that as a pioneer in the fur- therance of English work in the South , he was second only to Thomas R. Price . Besides the University of Virginia , two colleges of that state had a noteworthy part ...
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... Poets . In his sketch of Professor Child prefixed to the five - volume edition of the latter's English and Scottish Popular Ballads ( 1898 ) , a sketch to which grateful acknowl- edgment is hereby made , Professor G. L. Kittredge22 thus ...
... Poets . In his sketch of Professor Child prefixed to the five - volume edition of the latter's English and Scottish Popular Ballads ( 1898 ) , a sketch to which grateful acknowl- edgment is hereby made , Professor G. L. Kittredge22 thus ...
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... Poetry ( 1901 ) , and of the best English translation of Beowulf ( The Oldest English Epic , 1909 ) ; and Horace Howard Furness , editor of the great Variorum Shakespeare ( 1871-1912 ) . And many will agree that there is still living ...
... Poetry ( 1901 ) , and of the best English translation of Beowulf ( The Oldest English Epic , 1909 ) ; and Horace Howard Furness , editor of the great Variorum Shakespeare ( 1871-1912 ) . And many will agree that there is still living ...
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... poets have been deeply interested in linguistics . Ben Jonson wrote an Eng- lish Grammar . Milton published an ... poet laureate , Mr. Robert Bridges , has re- cently published two most interesting monographs on lin- guistic subjects ...
... poets have been deeply interested in linguistics . Ben Jonson wrote an Eng- lish Grammar . Milton published an ... poet laureate , Mr. Robert Bridges , has re- cently published two most interesting monographs on lin- guistic subjects ...
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... poetry . In the Cædmonian poems we find the high seriousness that is so characteristic of Sidney Lanier and of Robert Brown- ing . Note the similarity - almost the identity - of senti- ment concerning woman attributed to the Early ...
... poetry . In the Cædmonian poems we find the high seriousness that is so characteristic of Sidney Lanier and of Robert Brown- ing . Note the similarity - almost the identity - of senti- ment concerning woman attributed to the Early ...
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Seite 159 - In Pope I cannot read a line, But with a sigh I wish it mine; When he can in one couplet fix More sense than I can do in six; It gives me such a jealous fit, I cry, "Pox take him and his wit!
Seite 48 - Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school: and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and, contrary to the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill.
Seite 26 - He had raised money and squandered it, by every artifice of acquisition and folly of expense. But let not his frailties be remembered ; he was a very great man.
Seite 2 - The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government. Sam Houston Cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy It is the only dictator that freemen acknowledge and the only security that freemen desire.
Seite 48 - You have; I knew it would be your answer. Well, for your favour, sir, why, give God thanks, and make no boast of it; and for your writing and reading, let that appear when there is no need of such vanity. You are thought here to be the...
Seite 49 - The ideal philologist is at once antiquary, palaeographer, grammarian, lexicologist, expounder, critic, historian of literature, and, above all, lover of humanity." But, ignoring this error as to the words philology and philological, let us ask ourselves whether the charge is true 5The italics are mine. — Morgan Callaway, Jr.
Seite 25 - We need not feel any distrust," writes Lounsbury, " of his declaration that little learning of any kind forced its way into his head. Least of all will he be inclined to doubt it whom extended experience in the class-room has taught to view with profoundest respect the infinite capability of the human mind to resist the introduction of knowledge.
Seite 52 - It presents, in every branch, a regularly developed series of causes and consequences, and abounds in examples of that continuity of life, the realisation of which is necessary to give the reader a personal hold on the past and a right judgment of the present. For the roots of the present lie deep in the past, and nothing in the past is dead to the man who would learn how the present comes to be what it is.
Seite 66 - ... find critics of literature too often divided into linguists who seem neither to think nor to be capable of thinking of the meaning or the melody, of the individual and technical mastery, of an author, a book, or a passage, and into loose aesthetic rhetoricians who will sometimes discourse on...
Seite 59 - ... while to decrease the bloated registration is a sacrilege which Numbers will avenge with curtailment of prosperity. And the ritual march is by lock-step, for tests, competition, and awards are alien to the American spirit thus misrepresented — save athletic competition ; that is a divine exception. The university is next joined to the idol of Quick Returns. It accepts the fallacy of utilitarian purpose; and hence that a profession must be chosen prematurely and immaturely entered ; and hence...