Eighteenth Century Literature: An Oxford MiscellanyClarendon Press, 1909 - 183 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
admiration amusing argument Aunt beautiful Bevil Jun Biddy blank verse Bowles Bowles's Byron called century character charming Christian Clerimont Coleridge Conscious Lovers criticism delight dramatic eighteenth eighteenth-century English enthusiasm essay father feel Fielding Fielding's genius give Greek Gubbin heart Heartfree hero heroic heroic couplet Horace Walpole humour Humphry Indiana Johnson Jonathan Wild Joseph Warton kind Lady Mary Lady Winchelsea letter literature lived Lovemore Lying Lover Lyrical Ballads madam marry melancholy Milton Monody moral nature never Niece o'er passage passion perhaps play poems poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's Pounce prose Queen Anne's men quoted ridicule romantic satire says scene Sealand sense Sentimental Comedy sestet Sonnets spirit Steele Steele's style sublime taste tender thee thing Thomas Warton thou Tipkin Tom Jones true truth virtues Voltaire Walpole Walpole's Warton Wild's word Wordsworth writes written wrote Young Bookwit
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 102 - twere anew, the gaps of centuries ; Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old ! — The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.
Seite 87 - Night, sable goddess ! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. Silence how dead ! and darkness how profound ! Nor eye nor listening ear an object finds ; Creation sleeps.
Seite 6 - ... and repartees of all the attendants in a funeral procession. But there is one argument in favor of sentimental comedy which will keep it on the stage, in spite of all that can be said against it. It is of all others the most easily written. Those abilities that can hammer out a novel, are fully sufficient for the production of a sentimental comedy.
Seite 159 - GRIEF. 0 Time ! who know'st a lenient hand to lay Softest on sorrow's wound, and slowly thence, Lulling to sad repose the weary sense, The faint pang stealest unperceived away...
Seite 95 - Go, wondrous creature! mount where Science guides, Go, measure earth, weigh air, and state the tides; Instruct the planets in what orbs to run, Correct old Time, and regulate the sun; Go, soar with Plato to th...
Seite 6 - In these plays almost all the characters are good, and exceedingly generous ; they are lavish enough of their Tin money on the Stage ; and though they want humour, have abundance of sentiment and feeling. If they happen to have faults or foibles, the spectator is taught not only to pardon, but to applaud them, in consideration of the goodness of their hearts ; so that Folly, instead of being ridiculed, is commended, and the Comedy aims at touching our passions without the power of being truly pathetic.
Seite 73 - Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.
Seite 45 - Alas! a woman that attempts the pen, Such an intruder on the rights of men, Such a presumptuous creature, is esteem'd, The fault can by no vertue be redeem'd.
Seite 167 - And thought my way was all through fairy ground, Beneath thy azure sky and golden sun : Where first my Muse to lisp her notes begun! While pensive Memory traces back the round, Which fills the varied interval between ; Much pleasure, more of sorrow marks the scene.
Seite 78 - ... this way. There are two cautions to be given on this subject: First, not to think herself learned when she can read Latin, or even Greek. Languages are more properly to be called vehicles of learning than learning itself, as may be observed in many schoolmasters, who, though perhaps critics in grammar, are the most ignorant fellows upon earth.