Outlines of English LiteratureBlanchard and Lea, 1864 - 489 Seiten |
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... considered the greater names in English literature under a double point of view : first , as glorified types and noble expressions of the religious , social , and intellectual physiognomy of their times ; and secondly , in their own ...
... considered the greater names in English literature under a double point of view : first , as glorified types and noble expressions of the religious , social , and intellectual physiognomy of their times ; and secondly , in their own ...
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... considered comparatively insignificant . During the Roman occupation of the isles of Britain — an occupa- tion which extended over a period of 470 years , i . e . from 60 B.C. to A.D. 410 — there can be no doubt but that a considerable ...
... considered comparatively insignificant . During the Roman occupation of the isles of Britain — an occupa- tion which extended over a period of 470 years , i . e . from 60 B.C. to A.D. 410 — there can be no doubt but that a considerable ...
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... considered as having arisen from a corrupted La- tinity , such as we have been describing as likely to have been em- ployed by Gallic or Celtic tribes imperfectly acquainted with Latin . It would , however , be a fatal mistake to ...
... considered as having arisen from a corrupted La- tinity , such as we have been describing as likely to have been em- ployed by Gallic or Celtic tribes imperfectly acquainted with Latin . It would , however , be a fatal mistake to ...
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... considered as a mixture of the Saxon and of the Romanz or corrupted Roman of the middle ages : and before we can proceed to investigate the peculiar character , genius , and history of such a composite dialect , it will be essential to ...
... considered as a mixture of the Saxon and of the Romanz or corrupted Roman of the middle ages : and before we can proceed to investigate the peculiar character , genius , and history of such a composite dialect , it will be essential to ...
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... considered as involving such great difficulty as is generally attributed to them ; and in a majority of cases they will be found much less capricious than is usually supposed . One considerable portion of the above difficulty arises ...
... considered as involving such great difficulty as is generally attributed to them ; and in a majority of cases they will be found much less capricious than is usually supposed . One considerable portion of the above difficulty arises ...
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Seite 289 - After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a; prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
Seite 234 - 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 134 - 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 244 - 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 288 - 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 berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
Seite 419 - Camoens soothed an exile's grief; The Sonnet glittered a gay myrtle leaf Amid the cypress with which Dante crowned His visionary brow: a glow-worm lamp, It cheered mild Spenser, called from Faery-land To struggle through dark ways ; and when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand...
Seite 123 - 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 114 - 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.
Seite 138 - They are foul Anomalies, of whom we know not whence they are sprung, nor whether they have beginning or ending. As they are without human passions, so they seem to be without human relations. They come with thunder and lightning, and vanish to airy musiC. This is all we know of them. Except Hecate, they have no names ; which heightens their mysteriousness.
Seite 241 - Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; While wits and Templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers load, On wings of winds came flying all abroad?