English Literature in the Eighteenth CenturyHarper & Brothers, 1883 - 450 oldal |
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... taste accompanies meagre performance in the way of creation . Now , for instance , when the English drama is entirely a thing of the past , the taste of the reading public is exceedingly catholic ; but if at the present time real plays ...
... taste accompanies meagre performance in the way of creation . Now , for instance , when the English drama is entirely a thing of the past , the taste of the reading public is exceedingly catholic ; but if at the present time real plays ...
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... taste . In remoter countries , as Spain and England , the ef- * Symonds , " Renaissance in Italy , " v . 132 , note , says : " The more we study Italian literature in the sixteenth century , the more we are com- pelled to acknowledge ...
... taste . In remoter countries , as Spain and England , the ef- * Symonds , " Renaissance in Italy , " v . 132 , note , says : " The more we study Italian literature in the sixteenth century , the more we are com- pelled to acknowledge ...
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... taste of several ears . Yet may declare that I believed it would be more pleasant to the reader , in a work of length , to give this respite or pause between every stanza ( having endeavoured that each should contain a period ) than to ...
... taste of several ears . Yet may declare that I believed it would be more pleasant to the reader , in a work of length , to give this respite or pause between every stanza ( having endeavoured that each should contain a period ) than to ...
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... taste was catholic - and Mrs. Rowe ] , to mention that of Mr. John Bun- yan , who , though a man of very ordinary education , yet was a man of great natural parts , and as well known for an author throughout England as any I have ...
... taste was catholic - and Mrs. Rowe ] , to mention that of Mr. John Bun- yan , who , though a man of very ordinary education , yet was a man of great natural parts , and as well known for an author throughout England as any I have ...
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... taste in poe- try proves that in England he was read by the survivors of the Puritans . Then , too , his harmonious rhythm in- spired , as we shall see , a great deal of tumid blank verse . The real interest of the nation went with its ...
... taste in poe- try proves that in England he was read by the survivors of the Puritans . Then , too , his harmonious rhythm in- spired , as we shall see , a great deal of tumid blank verse . The real interest of the nation went with its ...
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52. oldal - With public zeal to cancel private crimes. How safe is treason and how sacred ill, Where none can sin against the people's will, "Where crowds can wink and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own ! Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge.
52. oldal - He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
243. oldal - A brighter wash; to curl their waving hairs, Assist their blushes, and inspire their airs; Nay oft, in dreams, invention we bestow, To change a flounce, or add a furbelow.
103. oldal - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
53. oldal - In the first rank of these did Zimri stand ;* A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
429. oldal - Ah little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround; They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste; Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.
106. oldal - ... tis all a cheat ; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit ; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay : To-morrow's falser than the former day ; Lies worse, and, while it says, we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
239. oldal - Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
161. oldal - It was said of Socrates that he brought Philosophy down from, heaven, to inhabit among men ; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of closets and libraries, schools and colleges, to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea-tables and in coffeehouses.
387. oldal - In our little journey up to the Grande Chartreuse, I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an exclamation, that there was no restraining. Not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry.