Outlines of English LiteratureLea, 1849 - 435 Seiten |
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... writers treated of in these pages , and forming a Chrestomathia to be read with the biographical and critical ... writer , and striking extracts from that writer's works ; he will thus be insensibly led , not only to form his taste and ...
... writers treated of in these pages , and forming a Chrestomathia to be read with the biographical and critical ... writer , and striking extracts from that writer's works ; he will thus be insensibly led , not only to form his taste and ...
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... writers of fiction - Scott , for example - who found the Celtic expression either more pic- turesque and forcible than the equivalent which already existed in English ( of Norman and Saxon origin ) , or else a lively and characteristic ...
... writers of fiction - Scott , for example - who found the Celtic expression either more pic- turesque and forcible than the equivalent which already existed in English ( of Norman and Saxon origin ) , or else a lively and characteristic ...
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... writers , and exhibits an immense variety of style and language ) is intended to give an ac- count of the English annals from A.D. 1 ; and though the earlier portion , as might be expected , is filled with trivial and improbable fables ...
... writers , and exhibits an immense variety of style and language ) is intended to give an ac- count of the English annals from A.D. 1 ; and though the earlier portion , as might be expected , is filled with trivial and improbable fables ...
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... writers against neologism and innovations in language - an infal- lible sign that some standard , however imperfect , and some rules , however capricious , had begun to be applied to the idiom - now rapidly rising into a written , and ...
... writers against neologism and innovations in language - an infal- lible sign that some standard , however imperfect , and some rules , however capricious , had begun to be applied to the idiom - now rapidly rising into a written , and ...
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... writers in the language . King James of Scotland , who holds an honourable place among English poets , was assassinated at Perth in the year 1437. The language must still be considered as advancing , in spite of the civil contentions ...
... writers in the language . King James of Scotland , who holds an honourable place among English poets , was assassinated at Perth in the year 1437. The language must still be considered as advancing , in spite of the civil contentions ...
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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!