Modern English Essays ...Ernest Rhys J.M. Dent & Sons Limited, 1922 |
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... never saw before or expected to see again ; how men laughed , cried , swore , were all of huge interest to Carlyle . Give him a fact , he loaded you with thanks ; propound a theory , you were rewarded with the most vivid abuse . This ...
... never saw before or expected to see again ; how men laughed , cried , swore , were all of huge interest to Carlyle . Give him a fact , he loaded you with thanks ; propound a theory , you were rewarded with the most vivid abuse . This ...
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... never be , though it often has been , forgotten . He is not to be taken literally . He is always a humorist , not unfrequently a writer of burlesque , and occasionally a buffoon . 1 One need scarcely add , nothing of the sort ever pro ...
... never be , though it often has been , forgotten . He is not to be taken literally . He is always a humorist , not unfrequently a writer of burlesque , and occasionally a buffoon . 1 One need scarcely add , nothing of the sort ever pro ...
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... never him- self till he has discovered or invented a hero ; and , when he has got him , he tosses and dandles him as a mother her babe . This is a terrible temptation to put in the way of an historian , and few there be who are found ...
... never him- self till he has discovered or invented a hero ; and , when he has got him , he tosses and dandles him as a mother her babe . This is a terrible temptation to put in the way of an historian , and few there be who are found ...
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... never be a bigot . When his war - paint is not on , a child might lead him . His judgments are gracious , chivalrous , tinged with a kindly melancholy and divine pity . But this mood is never for long . Some gadfly stings him : he ...
... never be a bigot . When his war - paint is not on , a child might lead him . His judgments are gracious , chivalrous , tinged with a kindly melancholy and divine pity . But this mood is never for long . Some gadfly stings him : he ...
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... never become classical . Alas ! that this should be true of too many eminent Englishmen of our time . Language such as was , at one time , almost habitual with Mr. Ruskin , is a national humiliation , giving point to the Frenchman's ...
... never become classical . Alas ! that this should be true of too many eminent Englishmen of our time . Language such as was , at one time , almost habitual with Mr. Ruskin , is a national humiliation , giving point to the Frenchman's ...
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.