Modern English Essays ...Ernest Rhys J.M. Dent & Sons Limited, 1922 |
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... beautiful handwriting . This of itself should be sufficient to refute the aspersions cast upon his scholarship by a recent critic of Swift ; for it affords certain evidence that even at twenty - seven , and perhaps at a much later ...
... beautiful handwriting . This of itself should be sufficient to refute the aspersions cast upon his scholarship by a recent critic of Swift ; for it affords certain evidence that even at twenty - seven , and perhaps at a much later ...
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... beautiful and young , " who was subsequently to be Gay's warmest friend . Early in the year in which the Shepherd's Week appeared , Gay , who - as he says - was now " quite off " with the Duchess of Monmouth , obtained the appointment ...
... beautiful and young , " who was subsequently to be Gay's warmest friend . Early in the year in which the Shepherd's Week appeared , Gay , who - as he says - was now " quite off " with the Duchess of Monmouth , obtained the appointment ...
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... beautiful when it was least alloyed with matter . Thus such topics as war , patriotism , prosperous love , religion , duty , were absolutely alien to the genius of Poe . He carried his theory to the absurd length of preferring Fouqué's ...
... beautiful when it was least alloyed with matter . Thus such topics as war , patriotism , prosperous love , religion , duty , were absolutely alien to the genius of Poe . He carried his theory to the absurd length of preferring Fouqué's ...
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... beautiful piece of verse did not appear in the very earliest editions of Poe's poems , he always declared that it was written in boyhood for the woman whose death caused him , in Beddoes ' phrase , “ with half his heart to inhabit other ...
... beautiful piece of verse did not appear in the very earliest editions of Poe's poems , he always declared that it was written in boyhood for the woman whose death caused him , in Beddoes ' phrase , “ with half his heart to inhabit other ...
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... beautiful thought , who have the gift of expression , but who have neglected its practice , either being sufficient unto themselves , or with their energies so diffused in other walks of life that they have only yielded in a gracious or ...
... beautiful thought , who have the gift of expression , but who have neglected its practice , either being sufficient unto themselves , or with their energies so diffused in other walks of life that they have only yielded in a gracious or ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
ANDREW LANG appears AUGUSTINE BIRRELL AUSTIN DOBSON ballad beauty better Bishop called Carlyle Carlyle's cats century charming Christopher Smart Clement's Inn Court criticism cynic death delight doubt Duchess EDGAR ALLAN POE Edmund Gosse English essay eyes Falstaff favour Garrick Gay's genius give Goldsmith Good-Natur'd H. C. BEECHING Haunted Palace heart historian honour HUGH LATIMER human humour John king lady Latimer Latimer's literary live London Lord lyric melancholy mind Moncrif nature never once opinion passion perhaps pieces Plato Poe's poem poet poetical poetry political poor Pope preached purgatory recognised remember Samuel Woodworth seems sermon Smart song soul Spens Spenser spirit stanzas Stoops to Conquer Sweet tell things thou thought tion true turtle Ulalume verses volume walking tour words writing written wrote young youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 209 - Ah Love! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits — and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!
Seite 143 - Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my Dolphin-chamber, at the round table, by a sea-coal fire, upon Wednesday in Wheeson week, when the prince broke thy head for liking his father to a singingman of Windsor, thou didst swear to me then, as I was washing thy wound, to marry me and make me my lady thy wife.
Seite 232 - ... our sage and serious poet Spenser, whom I dare be known to think a better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas...
Seite 36 - Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, but now I know it, with what more you may think proper.
Seite 35 - Of manners gentle, of affections mild ; In wit, a man ; simplicity, a child ; With native humour temp'ring virtuous rage, Form'd to delight at once and lash the age ; Above temptation, in a low estate ; And uncorrupted...
Seite 224 - He had walk for a hundred sheep, and my mother milked thirty kine. He was able and did find the king a harness, with himself and his horse, while he came to the place that he should receive the king's wages. I can remember that I buckled his harness when he went unto Blackheath field. He kept me to school, or else I had not been able to have preached before the King's Majesty now.
Seite 86 - I did not think he ought to be shut up. His infirmities were not noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any one else. Another charge was, that he did not love clean linen ; and I have no passion for it.
Seite 118 - METHINKS it is good to be here : If thou wilt, let us build — but for whom ? Nor Elias nor Moses appear ; But the shadows of eve that encompass with gloom The abode of the dead and the place of the tomb.