Outlines of English literatureJ. Murray, 1849 - 540 páginas |
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... various recondite doctrines which we know to have been current from the remotest ages in the interior of India , that it very difficult to believe such resemblances to be entirely accidental ; particularly when we reflect that many of ...
... various recondite doctrines which we know to have been current from the remotest ages in the interior of India , that it very difficult to believe such resemblances to be entirely accidental ; particularly when we reflect that many of ...
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... various modifications of meaning , which modifications would there- after be expressed by independent particles - by prepositions , by pronouns , by auxiliary verbs . But the supposition which has just been made was not to be verified ...
... various modifications of meaning , which modifications would there- after be expressed by independent particles - by prepositions , by pronouns , by auxiliary verbs . But the supposition which has just been made was not to be verified ...
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... various vocables in a dictionary and arranging them under the various languages from which they are derived , then striking a balance between them , and assigning as the true origin of the language the dialect to which the greater ...
... various vocables in a dictionary and arranging them under the various languages from which they are derived , then striking a balance between them , and assigning as the true origin of the language the dialect to which the greater ...
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... various vowels , and consequently the learner , when he finds that in English almost all the vowels have a name and a power totally different from what they bear in all other tongues , is apt to lose all courage , and to despair of ...
... various vowels , and consequently the learner , when he finds that in English almost all the vowels have a name and a power totally different from what they bear in all other tongues , is apt to lose all courage , and to despair of ...
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... various Romanz idioms which have become the several languages of modern Europe ; so much so , that the Latin words in our present speech may be said , at least as far as their orthography is con- element . cerned , to have reached among ...
... various Romanz idioms which have become the several languages of modern Europe ; so much so , that the Latin words in our present speech may be said , at least as far as their orthography is con- element . cerned , to have reached among ...
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Página 348 - 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.
Página 212 - 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.
Página 336 - 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.
Página 266 - 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.
Página 181 - Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model: or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept, or nature to be...
Página 136 - 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.
Página 243 - But why then publish * Granville the polite, And knowing Walsh, would tell me I could write ; Well-natured Garth inflamed with early praise, And Congreve loved, and Swift endured my lays ; The courtly Talbot, Somers, Sheffield read, Ev'n mitred Rochester would nod the head, And St. John's self (great Dryden's friends before) With open arms received one poet more.
Página 122 - 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!
Página 242 - Though mark'd by none but quick, poetic eyes : (So Rome's great founder to the heavens withdrew, To Proculus alone confess'd in view :) A sudden star, it shot through liquid air, And drew behind a radiant trail of hair.
Página 110 - Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone : regard his hellish fall, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise Only to wonder at unlawful things, Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits To practise more than heavenly power permits.