Modern English Essays ...Ernest Rhys J.M. Dent & Sons Limited, 1922 |
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... courses . The fire and fury of the Latter- Day Pamphlets may be disregarded by the peace- ful soul , and the preference given to the " Past " of Past and Present , which , with its intense and sympathetic mediævalism , might have been ...
... courses . The fire and fury of the Latter- Day Pamphlets may be disregarded by the peace- ful soul , and the preference given to the " Past " of Past and Present , which , with its intense and sympathetic mediævalism , might have been ...
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... course . These , then , I take to be Carlyle's three principal marks or notes : mysticism in thought , realism in description , and humour in both . To proceed now to his actual literary work . First , then , I would record the fact ...
... course . These , then , I take to be Carlyle's three principal marks or notes : mysticism in thought , realism in description , and humour in both . To proceed now to his actual literary work . First , then , I would record the fact ...
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... course we assume accuracy and labour in our animated historian ; though , for that matter , other things being equal , I prefer a lively liar to a dull one . Carlyle is sometimes as irresistible as " The Campbells are Coming , " or ...
... course we assume accuracy and labour in our animated historian ; though , for that matter , other things being equal , I prefer a lively liar to a dull one . Carlyle is sometimes as irresistible as " The Campbells are Coming , " or ...
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... course of life led by the man who awhile back stood the acknowledged head of English letters . But the present time is not the happiest for a panegyric on Carlyle . It would be in vain to deny that the brightness of his reputation under ...
... course of life led by the man who awhile back stood the acknowledged head of English letters . But the present time is not the happiest for a panegyric on Carlyle . It would be in vain to deny that the brightness of his reputation under ...
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... course which " could do no harm , " Pope counselled his hapless friend to " write something on the King , or Prince , or Princess . " Thereupon Gay prepared an Epistle to a Lady , occasion'd by the Arrival of Her Royal Highness ( i.e. ...
... course which " could do no harm , " Pope counselled his hapless friend to " write something on the King , or Prince , or Princess . " Thereupon Gay prepared an Epistle to a Lady , occasion'd by the Arrival of Her Royal Highness ( i.e. ...
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.