A History of English Literature: In a Series of Biographical SketchesT. Nelson and Sons, 1868 - 529 oldal |
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... success . The plays of Dryden are nearly all tainted with the poisons that floated thick in the social atmosphere of the time ; but those of Wycherley are , perhaps , the most diseased specimens of our dramatic literature that have ...
... success . The plays of Dryden are nearly all tainted with the poisons that floated thick in the social atmosphere of the time ; but those of Wycherley are , perhaps , the most diseased specimens of our dramatic literature that have ...
237. oldal
... successes in the dramatic line , which the silly man had prefaced with a puny war - blast of defiance . The torrent of abuse , which Dryden poured round this shallow brain , would better become a shrewish fishwife than one of England's ...
... successes in the dramatic line , which the silly man had prefaced with a puny war - blast of defiance . The torrent of abuse , which Dryden poured round this shallow brain , would better become a shrewish fishwife than one of England's ...
247. oldal
... success as an actor . Not so when he took up the dramatist's pen . Almost the only gleam of prosperity that favoured the poet shone in 1677 , when , by the interest of the Earl of Plymouth , he was made a cornet of dragoons , and ...
... success as an actor . Not so when he took up the dramatist's pen . Almost the only gleam of prosperity that favoured the poet shone in 1677 , when , by the interest of the Earl of Plymouth , he was made a cornet of dragoons , and ...
251. oldal
... success . SIR JOHN VANBRUGH , born about 1666 , was a sugar - baker's son , who produced architectural designs , and wrote witty but licentious comedies . Under Queen Anne he was Clarencieux King - at - arms ; and under George I ...
... success . SIR JOHN VANBRUGH , born about 1666 , was a sugar - baker's son , who produced architectural designs , and wrote witty but licentious comedies . Under Queen Anne he was Clarencieux King - at - arms ; and under George I ...
256. oldal
... success this giant sheet has since achieved . A newspaper paying , as the " Times " does , between £ 40,000 and £ 50,000 a year for paper- duty alone , is indeed a wonderful triumph of human energy , and a colossal proof of the reading ...
... success this giant sheet has since achieved . A newspaper paying , as the " Times " does , between £ 40,000 and £ 50,000 a year for paper- duty alone , is indeed a wonderful triumph of human energy , and a colossal proof of the reading ...
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348. oldal - Seven years, my Lord, have now past, since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it, at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour.
390. oldal - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests ; in all time, Calm or convulsed, in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime, Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of Eternity — the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made ; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone...
207. oldal - The other Shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb ; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either — black it stood as Night, 670 Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart : what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
348. oldal - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help ? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary. and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
338. oldal - In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs — and God has given my share — I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose...
376. oldal - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
361. oldal - 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 berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
209. oldal - No sooner had the Almighty ceased but — all The multitude of Angels, with a shout Loud as from numbers without number, sweet As from blest voices, uttering joy — Heaven rung With jubilee, and loud hosannas filled The eternal regions.
209. oldal - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence : Here we may reign secure, and, in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell : Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven...
390. oldal - Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts: not so thou; Unchangeable save to thy wild waves