A Complete Manual of English LiteratureSheldon & Company, 1867 - 540 páginas |
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... idea of their lives and writings . The Author has certainly succeeded in his attempt " to render the work as little dry as is consistent with accuracy and comprehensiveness . " - as readable , in short --- As Editor , I have carefully ...
... idea of their lives and writings . The Author has certainly succeeded in his attempt " to render the work as little dry as is consistent with accuracy and comprehensiveness . " - as readable , in short --- As Editor , I have carefully ...
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... idea was represented among the Scandinavians , with the Greek notis , a term exactly reproduced in the Maker of the Lowland Scots ; and the beautiful qualification of the poetic art as el gay saber and la guaye science , no less ...
... idea was represented among the Scandinavians , with the Greek notis , a term exactly reproduced in the Maker of the Lowland Scots ; and the beautiful qualification of the poetic art as el gay saber and la guaye science , no less ...
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... ideas are merely general expressions of thought , not necessarily cor- responding to real existences . At Oxford , the Franciscan friar , ROGER BACON ( about A. D. 1214– 1292 ) , by his devotion to physical science , gained the ...
... ideas are merely general expressions of thought , not necessarily cor- responding to real existences . At Oxford , the Franciscan friar , ROGER BACON ( about A. D. 1214– 1292 ) , by his devotion to physical science , gained the ...
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... idea of the intellectual situation of England in the fourteenth century , we must by no means leave out of the account the vast influence exerted by the preaching of Wicliffe , and the mortal blow struck by him against the foundations ...
... idea of the intellectual situation of England in the fourteenth century , we must by no means leave out of the account the vast influence exerted by the preaching of Wicliffe , and the mortal blow struck by him against the foundations ...
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... idea may have come origi- nally from the East , the very inartificial plan of the . Thousand and One Nights being not altogether dissimilar , in which the stories of the in- exhaustible princess Dinarzadeh are inserted one within the ...
... idea may have come origi- nally from the East , the very inartificial plan of the . Thousand and One Nights being not altogether dissimilar , in which the stories of the in- exhaustible princess Dinarzadeh are inserted one within the ...
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Página 438 - For over all there hung a cloud of fear ; A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted...
Página 212 - ... sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense ; sometimes...
Página 454 - ... by night in places of interment. Some stalked slowly on, absorbed in profound reverie ; some, shrieking with agony, ran furiously about like tigers wounded with poisoned arrows ; whilst others, grinding their teeth in rage, foamed along more frantic than the wildest maniac. They all avoided each other ; and, though surrounded by a multitude that no one could number, each wandered at random unheedful of the rest, as if alone on a desert where no foot had trodden.
Página 267 - which you did me the honour to subscribe for.' — 'Oh,' said Bentley, 'ay, now I recollect — your translation: — it is a pretty poem, Mr. Pope; but you must not call it Homer?
Página 463 - We find in it the diligence, the accuracy, and the judgment of Hallam, united to the vivacity and the colouring of Southey. A history of England, written throughout in this manner, would be the most fascinating book in the language. It would be more in request at the circulating libraries than the last novel.
Página 529 - Father, Thy hand Hath reared these venerable columns. Thou Didst weave this verdant roof. Thou didst look down Upon the naked earth, and forthwith rose All these fair ranks of trees. They in Thy sun Budded, and shook their green leaves in Thy breeze, And shot towards heaven. The centuryliving crow, Whose birth was in their tops, grew old and died Among their branches, till at last they stood, As now they stand, massy and tall and dark, Fit shrine for humble worshipper to hold Communion with his Maker.
Página 85 - He would have made a great epic poet, if indeed he has not abundantly shown himself to be one ; for his Homer is not so properly a translation as the stories of Achilles and Ulysses rewritten.
Página 52 - Women," long ago Sung by the morning star of song, who made His music heard below ; Dan Chaucer, the first warbler, whose sweet breath Preluded those melodious bursts that fill The spacious times of great Elizabeth With sounds that echo still.
Página 147 - tis most certain, Iras. Saucy lictors Will catch at us, like strumpets ; and scald rhymers Ballad us out o' tune : the quick comedians Extemporally will stage us, and present Our Alexandrian revels : Antony Shall be brought drunken forth, and I shall see Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness I
Página 529 - Stoop o'er the place of graves, and softly sway The sighing herbage by the gleaming stone, That they who near the churchyard willows stray, And listen in the deepening gloom, alone, May think of gentle souls that passed away, Like thy pure breath, into the vast unknown, Sent forth from heaven among the sons of men, And gone into the boundless heaven again.