Outlines of English LiteratureLea, 1849 - 435 Seiten |
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... less fatal influence of Latin corruption , and the fierce intestine convulsions which decimated their ranks , were gradually driven back from the southern and central parts of Brit- ain to take refuge in the inaccessible fastnesses of ...
... less fatal influence of Latin corruption , and the fierce intestine convulsions which decimated their ranks , were gradually driven back from the southern and central parts of Brit- ain to take refuge in the inaccessible fastnesses of ...
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... less successful , of a rude Celtic or Gaulish ` nation to speak the Latin , with which they were only acquainted by practice and by the ear . In this barbarous , but useful and improvable dialect , some words of the ancient Gaulish or ...
... less successful , of a rude Celtic or Gaulish ` nation to speak the Latin , with which they were only acquainted by practice and by the ear . In this barbarous , but useful and improvable dialect , some words of the ancient Gaulish or ...
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... less completely supplanted by new invasions , and by new languages originating in different and distant regions . It is un- doubtedly obvious that a very large part of the modern English vocabulary , and even many forms of English ...
... less completely supplanted by new invasions , and by new languages originating in different and distant regions . It is un- doubtedly obvious that a very large part of the modern English vocabulary , and even many forms of English ...
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... less inversion and ellipsis , especially in poetry . Of these , the second alone , I think , can be considered as sufficient to describe a new form of language ; and this was brought about so gradually , that we are not relieved of much ...
... less inversion and ellipsis , especially in poetry . Of these , the second alone , I think , can be considered as sufficient to describe a new form of language ; and this was brought about so gradually , that we are not relieved of much ...
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... less profitably fulfilled , if we content ourselves with accompanying , with due reverence and a natural admiration , the advance of that noble language along the course of centuries : we shall see it , springing from the distant ...
... less profitably fulfilled , if we content ourselves with accompanying , with due reverence and a natural admiration , the advance of that noble language along the course of centuries : we shall see it , springing from the distant ...
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Seite 41 - Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine: I have never heard Praise of love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine.
Seite 297 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
Seite 187 - Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.
Seite 288 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berccau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
Seite 231 - I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives, to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.
Seite 239 - 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...
Seite 242 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Seite 127 - Invest me in my motley ; give me leave To speak my mind, and I will through and through Cleanse the foul body of the infected world, If they will patiently receive my medicine.
Seite 151 - With antic pillars massy proof, And storied windows, richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow To the full-voiced choir below, In service high and anthems clear, As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all heaven before mine eyes.
Seite 116 - You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!