A Popular Manual of English Literature: Containing Outlines of the Literature of France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United States of America, Том 1Harper & brothers, 1885 - Всего страниц: 1150 |
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... Elizabeth B. Browning , Robert . Bucknill , Dr. Budgell , Eustace . Burke , Edmund . Burns , Robert . Burns , Gilbert . Butler , Samuel . Byron , Lord . Calvert , George H. Campbell , John . Campbell , Thomas . Carleton , Sir Dudley ...
... Elizabeth B. Browning , Robert . Bucknill , Dr. Budgell , Eustace . Burke , Edmund . Burns , Robert . Burns , Gilbert . Butler , Samuel . Byron , Lord . Calvert , George H. Campbell , John . Campbell , Thomas . Carleton , Sir Dudley ...
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... Elizabeth Barrett Browning , and Alfred Tennyson : PORTRAITS . PERSONAL APPEARANCE . COMMENTS . TOPICAL STUDY OF LIFE . HOMES . FRIENDS . PERSONAL CHARACTER . WORKS . STUDIES OF CHIEF WRITINGS . CHARACTERISTICS AS A WRITER . LITERARY ...
... Elizabeth Barrett Browning , and Alfred Tennyson : PORTRAITS . PERSONAL APPEARANCE . COMMENTS . TOPICAL STUDY OF LIFE . HOMES . FRIENDS . PERSONAL CHARACTER . WORKS . STUDIES OF CHIEF WRITINGS . CHARACTERISTICS AS A WRITER . LITERARY ...
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... ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING . There is no touch of cynicism in all he wrote . - J . R. Lowell . Chaucer is an historical poet ; and he is as superior to the ordinary historian as a troop of soldiers is to a regiment of wax- works . A ...
... ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING . There is no touch of cynicism in all he wrote . - J . R. Lowell . Chaucer is an historical poet ; and he is as superior to the ordinary historian as a troop of soldiers is to a regiment of wax- works . A ...
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... ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING : The Book of the Poets . One of the world's three or four great story - tellers , he was also one of the best versifiers that ever made English trip and sing with a gayety that seems careless , but where ...
... ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING : The Book of the Poets . One of the world's three or four great story - tellers , he was also one of the best versifiers that ever made English trip and sing with a gayety that seems careless , but where ...
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... Elizabeth's day to “ talk pure Chaucer . ” — JAMES RUS- SELL LOWell . Metres . - Chaucer has made use of nine metres , of which the five most important are : 1. The Heroic , or Decasyl- labic , employed in most of " The Canterbury Tales ...
... Elizabeth's day to “ talk pure Chaucer . ” — JAMES RUS- SELL LOWell . Metres . - Chaucer has made use of nine metres , of which the five most important are : 1. The Heroic , or Decasyl- labic , employed in most of " The Canterbury Tales ...
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Стр. 159 - Sweet Swan of Avon ! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our James...
Стр. 255 - 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.
Стр. 159 - Muses : For if I thought my judgment were of years, I should commit thee surely with thy peers, And tell how far thou didst our Lyly outshine. Or sporting Kyd, or Marlowe's mighty line.
Стр. 347 - ALL human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey. This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, young Was called to empire, and had governed long. In prose and verse was owned, without dispute, Through all the realms of Nonsense absolute.
Стр. 162 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Стр. 449 - And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works, he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy. But when, or where ? This world was made for Caesar.
Стр. 457 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Стр. 159 - Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give.
Стр. 203 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul, All the images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Стр. 152 - Jesus' sake forbeare To dig the dust enclosed here. Blessed be he that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones.