The History of English Literature: With an Outline of the Origin and Growth of the English LanguageD. Appleton & Company, 1854 - 414 Seiten |
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... reflection , both by occasional remarks on the relations between intellectual culture and the other elements of society , and by hints as to the theoretical laws on which criticism should be founded . Modern works , also , while the ...
... reflection , both by occasional remarks on the relations between intellectual culture and the other elements of society , and by hints as to the theoretical laws on which criticism should be founded . Modern works , also , while the ...
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... reflection , both by occasional remarks on the relations between intellectual culture and the other elements of society , and by hints as to the theoretical laws on which criticism should be founded . Modern works , also , while the ...
... reflection , both by occasional remarks on the relations between intellectual culture and the other elements of society , and by hints as to the theoretical laws on which criticism should be founded . Modern works , also , while the ...
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... reflection on the course of our national history would suggest many others . When we see our forefathers vindicating man's inalienable prerogative of free thought , and asserting , most strongly of all , his right to think on things ...
... reflection on the course of our national history would suggest many others . When we see our forefathers vindicating man's inalienable prerogative of free thought , and asserting , most strongly of all , his right to think on things ...
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... reflections as these , and if we qua- lify ourselves for applying them in particular instances by an exact acquaintance with the events of our national history , the study of English literature , in the order of its successive periods ...
... reflections as these , and if we qua- lify ourselves for applying them in particular instances by an exact acquaintance with the events of our national history , the study of English literature , in the order of its successive periods ...
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... reflections , and religious doc- trines or narratives . Their instructed men wrote easily in prose , at a time when other living languages were still entangled in the trammels of verse : they embodied , in rough but lucid phrases ...
... reflections , and religious doc- trines or narratives . Their instructed men wrote easily in prose , at a time when other living languages were still entangled in the trammels of verse : they embodied , in rough but lucid phrases ...
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Æneid allegory ancient Anglo-Saxon beautiful belong Ben Jonson Bishop blank verse called celebrated Celts century character Chaucer chiefly chivalrous Chronicle church classical close Comedy composition critical declension dialect diction didactic drama earliest early ecclesiastical Edinburgh Review eloquence England English Language Essays Faerie Queene fancy feeling French genius Geoffrey of Monmouth Henry honour imagination imitated kind king Knight's Tale knowledge language later Latin Layamon learned less likewise literary literature living lyrical merit metrical middle ages Milton mind modern moral narrative native nature never Norman Conquest novel Old English opinions original passages perhaps period philosophy pieces poems poet poetical poetry possessed prose reign religious romances satire Saxon scenes Scotland Scottish sentiment Shakspeare specimens Spenser spirit story style taste theological things thou thought tion tone tongue translation treatise truth verb verse vigorous words writers written
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Seite 344 - 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...
Seite 70 - Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That owned the virtuous Ring and Glass, And of the wondrous Horse of Brass, On which the Tartar King did ride; And if aught else great Bards beside, In sage and solemn tunes have sung, Of Tourneys and of Trophies hung; Of Forests, and enchantments drear, Wh'ere more is meant than meets the ear.
Seite 270 - In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west; Which by and by black night doth take away, Death's second self, that seals up all in rest. In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire, That on the ashes of his youth doth lie, As the death-bed whereon it must expire Consum'd with that which it was nourish'd by.
Seite 269 - That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west; Which by and by black night doth take away, Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.
Seite 330 - Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high, To bitter Scorn a sacrifice, And grinning Infamy. The stings of Falsehood those shall try And hard Unkindness...
Seite 230 - ... nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.
Seite 235 - I HAD rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.
Seite 346 - Oh, how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her votary yields ! The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields ; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of Heaven, Oh, how canst thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven ! X.
Seite 344 - ... bowers to lay me down ; To husband out life's taper at the close. And keep the flame from wasting by repose. I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my...
Seite 208 - ... faintness begin to stand and to rest himself; if the moon should wander from her beaten way, the times and seasons of the year blend themselves by disordered and confused mixture, the winds breathe out their last gasp, the clouds yield no rain, the earth be defeated of heavenly influence, the fruits of the earth pine away as children at the withered breasts of their mother no longer able to yield them relief; what would become of man himself, whom these things now do all serve ? See we not plainly...