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... respecting him -- His Marriage -- Early Studies -- Goes to London - His Career -- Death and Monument -- Order of his Works -- Ro- man Plays -- His Diction -- Characters 102 CHAPTER VII . THE SHAKSPEARIAN DRAMATISTS . Ben Jonson : viii ...
... respecting him -- His Marriage -- Early Studies -- Goes to London - His Career -- Death and Monument -- Order of his Works -- Ro- man Plays -- His Diction -- Characters 102 CHAPTER VII . THE SHAKSPEARIAN DRAMATISTS . Ben Jonson : viii ...
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... respects , so many analogies between their language and our own . These are , among others , the sound , or rather the two distinct sounds , of the th . A very little explanation would suffice to render at all events the theo- retical ...
... respects , so many analogies between their language and our own . These are , among others , the sound , or rather the two distinct sounds , of the th . A very little explanation would suffice to render at all events the theo- retical ...
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... respect to this excellent and comprehensive judgment , it is only necessary to remark , that in tracing practically the appli- cation to the English language of the first of these processes by which Hallam explains the gradual ...
... respect to this excellent and comprehensive judgment , it is only necessary to remark , that in tracing practically the appli- cation to the English language of the first of these processes by which Hallam explains the gradual ...
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... respects the word was truncated — and it is of no consequence whether this contraction took place gradually or suddenly - until nothing remains but the significant or radical syllable hom . In tracing , from the momentous epoch of the ...
... respects the word was truncated — and it is of no consequence whether this contraction took place gradually or suddenly - until nothing remains but the significant or radical syllable hom . In tracing , from the momentous epoch of the ...
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... respect to such followers of outlandish fashions , which is not destitute of a certain drollery and salt : " Jacke , " they said , " woud be a gentilman if he coud bot speke Frenshe . " It is known , too , that in the first part of his ...
... respect to such followers of outlandish fashions , which is not destitute of a certain drollery and salt : " Jacke , " they said , " woud be a gentilman if he coud bot speke Frenshe . " It is known , too , that in the first part of his ...
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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!