English Literature of Nineteenth Century: On the Plan of the Author's "Compendium of English Literature" and Supplementary to It. Designed for Colleges and Advanced ClassesBancroft, 1869 - 798 páginas |
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... sublime as the Bard of Gray . HUGH BLAIR , 1718-1800 . DR . HUGH BLAIR was born in Edinburgh , in 1718. After having gone through the usual grammatical course at the High School , he entered the University of Edinburgh in 1730 , where ...
... sublime as the Bard of Gray . HUGH BLAIR , 1718-1800 . DR . HUGH BLAIR was born in Edinburgh , in 1718. After having gone through the usual grammatical course at the High School , he entered the University of Edinburgh in 1730 , where ...
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... sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star , And waged with Fortune an eternal war ; Check'd by the scoff of Pride , by Envy's frown , And Poverty's unconquerable bar , In life's low vale remote has pined alone , Then dropp'd into ...
... sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star , And waged with Fortune an eternal war ; Check'd by the scoff of Pride , by Envy's frown , And Poverty's unconquerable bar , In life's low vale remote has pined alone , Then dropp'd into ...
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... sublime , Like shipwreck'd mariner on desert coast , And view th ' enormous waste of vapor , toss'd In billows , length'ning to th ' horizon round , Now scoop'd in gulfs , with mountains now emboss'd ! And hear the voice of mirth and ...
... sublime , Like shipwreck'd mariner on desert coast , And view th ' enormous waste of vapor , toss'd In billows , length'ning to th ' horizon round , Now scoop'd in gulfs , with mountains now emboss'd ! And hear the voice of mirth and ...
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... sublime as these : The many paths of nature to explore , And boldly tread where none have reach'd before . " And Dr. Johnson is reported to have said , when a celebrated Greek scholar was spoken of , " Sir , he is the best Greek scholar ...
... sublime as these : The many paths of nature to explore , And boldly tread where none have reach'd before . " And Dr. Johnson is reported to have said , when a celebrated Greek scholar was spoken of , " Sir , he is the best Greek scholar ...
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... sublime in the extreme , abundantly metaphorical , and some- times extravagant . Both were subject to be hurried on by an uncontrollable im- pulse , nor could nature alone suffice for either . Eschylus had an apt creation of imaginary ...
... sublime in the extreme , abundantly metaphorical , and some- times extravagant . Both were subject to be hurried on by an uncontrollable im- pulse , nor could nature alone suffice for either . Eschylus had an apt creation of imaginary ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
admiration appeared beautiful Blackwood's Magazine bless born breath called character Charles Lamb child Christian church Coleridge critic dark death delight divine earth Edinburgh Review edition Encyclopædia Britannica England English Essays eyes fame fancy father feel flowers genius glory grace grave hand happy hath heart heaven Henry Kirke White History honor hope hour human labor lady light literary literature lived London look Lord Milton mind moral Moscow nature never night noble North British Review o'er passion pleasure poem poet poetical poetry poor praise prayer published racter rich Robert Pollok scene Shakspeare Sir Walter Scott smile song sorrow soul spirit stranger's heart style sublime sweet taste tears thee thine thing thou thought tion truth University of Edinburgh verse voice volumes wonder words writings young youth
Passagens conhecidas
Página 99 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet or in shroud we wound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around him.
Página 143 - Brightest and best of the sons of the morning, Dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid; Star of the East, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.
Página 123 - Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen: Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown That host on the morrow lay wither'd and strown. For the Angel of Death...
Página 430 - THE world is too much with us: late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not.
Página 541 - Nay, not so," Replied the angel. Abou spoke more low, But cheerly still ; and said, " I pray thee, then, Write me as one that loves his fellow-men.
Página 127 - SHE walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies ; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes : Thus mellow'd to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
Página 124 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gather'd then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men; A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell; But hush!
Página 82 - I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet Wherewith the seasonable month endows The grass, the thicket...
Página 220 - Ye Ice-falls! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge! Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the Gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? GOD! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, GOD!
Página 430 - MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.