English Literature in the Eighteenth CenturyHarper & Brothers, 1883 - 450 oldal |
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... began with Chaucer , it is obvious that we should have to study Chaucer's indebtedness to Italian models and to mediæval literature before we could fully compre- hend his precise position ; and in beginning with the writers of the ...
... began with Chaucer , it is obvious that we should have to study Chaucer's indebtedness to Italian models and to mediæval literature before we could fully compre- hend his precise position ; and in beginning with the writers of the ...
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... began to be fixed towards the end of the seventeenth century . Ad- miration for intellectual greatness does not produce this feeling of kinship so surely as does agreement in looking at practical questions , and our full comprehension ...
... began to be fixed towards the end of the seventeenth century . Ad- miration for intellectual greatness does not produce this feeling of kinship so surely as does agreement in looking at practical questions , and our full comprehension ...
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... began to be written — a prose which we can understand without difficulty , which , except that it is much more intelligible , is practically the prose of the pres- ent day . This may be better illustrated by a few ex- amples than it can ...
... began to be written — a prose which we can understand without difficulty , which , except that it is much more intelligible , is practically the prose of the pres- ent day . This may be better illustrated by a few ex- amples than it can ...
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... began to read aloud to him , we can read much more easily with our eyes than with our ears : and so doubtless we have lost to some extent the possibility of comprehending at once the long sentences of plays which our ancestors grasped ...
... began to read aloud to him , we can read much more easily with our eyes than with our ears : and so doubtless we have lost to some extent the possibility of comprehending at once the long sentences of plays which our ancestors grasped ...
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... began anew . The medieval literature , it must be remembered , was considerable in amount ; but it had grown artificial and unfruitful when these finer models were rediscovered . It is impossible at this time to describe the growth of ...
... began anew . The medieval literature , it must be remembered , was considerable in amount ; but it had grown artificial and unfruitful when these finer models were rediscovered . It is impossible at this time to describe the growth of ...
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137. oldal - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel, by divine command, With rising tempests shakes a guilty land (Such as of late o'er pale Britannia passed), Calm and serene he drives the furious blast ; And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform. Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
52. oldal - He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
249. 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.
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.
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.
245. oldal - Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
389. 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.
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.
53. oldal - Blest madman! who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy. Railing and praising were his usual themes; And both, to show his judgment, in extremes; So over violent, or over civil, That every man with him was god or devil.
23. oldal - That hath a mint of phrases in his brain : One, whom the music of his own vain tongue Doth ravish, like enchanting harmony...