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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... taste which , emanating from France , held supremacy over Europe in his generation , and which , unsuited to the English constitution , dwarfed and cor- rupted it . Thus the divine Milton was the very personi- fication of Puritanism - a ...
... taste which , emanating from France , held supremacy over Europe in his generation , and which , unsuited to the English constitution , dwarfed and cor- rupted it . Thus the divine Milton was the very personi- fication of Puritanism - a ...
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... taste for pure and lofty literature should be developed among its people ; and this is especially true in a republic where every citizen is free and self - governing . The Manual is designed to meet a practical want . In the hope of its ...
... taste for pure and lofty literature should be developed among its people ; and this is especially true in a republic where every citizen is free and self - governing . The Manual is designed to meet a practical want . In the hope of its ...
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... taste . Would a better be found nowadays in a German chapter , amid the most modest and lively bevy of sentimental and literary canonesses ? Are you of- fended by these provincial affectations ? Not at all ; it is delightful to behold ...
... taste . Would a better be found nowadays in a German chapter , amid the most modest and lively bevy of sentimental and literary canonesses ? Are you of- fended by these provincial affectations ? Not at all ; it is delightful to behold ...
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... taste . Would a better be found nowadays in a German chapter , amid the most modest and lively bevy of sentimental and literary canonesses ? Are you of- fended by these provincial affectations ? Not at all ; it is delightful to behold ...
... taste . Would a better be found nowadays in a German chapter , amid the most modest and lively bevy of sentimental and literary canonesses ? Are you of- fended by these provincial affectations ? Not at all ; it is delightful to behold ...
Стр. 91
... that finement in polish and re- taste and man- ners for which it has since been noted . Ancient drama introduced by Rabelais ( 1483- 1553 ) , author of the cele- brated " Life of Gargantua and Panta- gruel . " DARK AGE . 91.
... that finement in polish and re- taste and man- ners for which it has since been noted . Ancient drama introduced by Rabelais ( 1483- 1553 ) , author of the cele- brated " Life of Gargantua and Panta- gruel . " DARK AGE . 91.
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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.