Masters of English LiteratureA.C. McClurg & Company, 1914 - 446 Seiten |
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... MILTON V DRYDEN CONTENTS VI SWIFT . VII POPE · VIII JOHNSON IX BURNS X BYRON XI SHELLEY · • XII KEATS XIII WORDSWORTH XIV SCOTT XV DICKENS XVI THACKERAY XVII GEORGE ELIOT XVIII CARLYLE · XIX RUSKIN XX TENNYSON XXI BROWNING.
... MILTON V DRYDEN CONTENTS VI SWIFT . VII POPE · VIII JOHNSON IX BURNS X BYRON XI SHELLEY · • XII KEATS XIII WORDSWORTH XIV SCOTT XV DICKENS XVI THACKERAY XVII GEORGE ELIOT XVIII CARLYLE · XIX RUSKIN XX TENNYSON XXI BROWNING.
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... is of itself sufficient to confer immortality upon most men . According to his earliest biographers , Chaucer attained eminence in them all . " } I Although even Milton calls him " our learned Chaucer , 22 * Masters of English Literature.
... is of itself sufficient to confer immortality upon most men . According to his earliest biographers , Chaucer attained eminence in them all . " } I Although even Milton calls him " our learned Chaucer , 22 * Masters of English Literature.
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... Milton himself was a learned man . Chaucer lived at a time when " a great scholar was expected to know not merely something of everything , but everything of everything . " This ideal may be at least as rational as the modern theory ...
... Milton himself was a learned man . Chaucer lived at a time when " a great scholar was expected to know not merely something of everything , but everything of everything . " This ideal may be at least as rational as the modern theory ...
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... Milton he is not a controversialist ; nor is his poetry laden with an antiquated theology . Milton is great in spite of his zeal as a reformer ; Chaucer is great because he portrays the world of men as they are , not as he might think ...
... Milton he is not a controversialist ; nor is his poetry laden with an antiquated theology . Milton is great in spite of his zeal as a reformer ; Chaucer is great because he portrays the world of men as they are , not as he might think ...
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... Milton , Goethe , Schiller , and Molière are also great names ; but the opinion has been growing that Shakspere is the supreme genius of all . Until the student has read widely and gained that maturity of judgment which entitles him to ...
... Milton , Goethe , Schiller , and Molière are also great names ; but the opinion has been growing that Shakspere is the supreme genius of all . Until the student has read widely and gained that maturity of judgment which entitles him to ...
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Adam Bede admiration appeared beautiful Browning Burns Byron called Canterbury Tales canto Carlyle Carlyle's century character Charles Dickens charm Chaucer child Craigenputtock critic David Copperfield death Dickens died drama Dryden edition England English literature Essay expression eyes father feeling fiction French genius George Eliot Goethe heart human immortal influence interest John John Keats Johnson Keats King language later learned letter literary lived London Lord marriage married master Milton mind mother nature never novel Paradise Lost passion period philosophy plays poem poet poet's poetic poetry Pope praise prose published Richard III Ruskin Sartor Resartus satire Scott Shakespeare Shakspere Shakspere's Shelley Shelley's song soul spirit story style sweet Swift Tennyson Thackeray things Thomas Carlyle thought tion verse wife woman Wordsworth writes written wrote young youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 63 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...
Seite 44 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste...
Seite 110 - Peace to all such! But were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please. And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne; View him with scornful, yev with jealous eyes.
Seite 45 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O no ; it is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on tempests, and is never shaken ; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Seite 416 - FEAR death ? — to feel the fog in my throat, The mist in my face, When the snows begin, and the blasts denote I am nearing the place, The power of the night, the press of the storm, The post of the foe ; Where he stands, the Arch Fear in a visible form, Yet the strong man must go...
Seite 237 - Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress ; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness.
Seite 171 - There was a sound of revelry by night. And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her beauty and her chivalry ; and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men : A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again ; And all went merry as a marriage-bell, But hush ! hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell.
Seite 172 - The sky is changed ! — and such a change ! Oh ! night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong ; Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along From peak to peak the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder ! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud ! And this is in the night.
Seite 414 - OH, TO BE in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England - now...
Seite 150 - OF a' the airts the wind can blaw, I dearly like the west, For there the bonnie lassie lives, The lassie I lo'e best : There wild woods grow, and rivers row, And mony a hill between ; But day and night my fancy's flight Is ever wi