Outlines of English LiteratureSheldon & Company, 1866 - 465 páginas |
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... Ideas - Treatises on Govern- ment - Essay on Education ...... CHAPTER XII . THE WITS OF QUEEN ANNE'S REIGN . Artificial School - Pope's early Studies - Pope compared to Dryden Essay on Criticism - Rape of the Lock Mock - heroic Poetry ...
... Ideas - Treatises on Govern- ment - Essay on Education ...... CHAPTER XII . THE WITS OF QUEEN ANNE'S REIGN . Artificial School - Pope's early Studies - Pope compared to Dryden Essay on Criticism - Rape of the Lock Mock - heroic Poetry ...
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... idea so exclusively Celtic that it forms a perfect and untranslatable sign of that idea ; while " cairn , " though by no means peculiar to the Celts , and defining a mode of honourable burial universal in former ages ( as testified by ...
... idea so exclusively Celtic that it forms a perfect and untranslatable sign of that idea ; while " cairn , " though by no means peculiar to the Celts , and defining a mode of honourable burial universal in former ages ( as testified by ...
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... ideas and the most uni- versally known objects — such objects and ideas , in short , as cannot but possess equivalents in every human speech , however rude its state or imperfect its development . Following this important rule , we ...
... ideas and the most uni- versally known objects — such objects and ideas , in short , as cannot but possess equivalents in every human speech , however rude its state or imperfect its development . Following this important rule , we ...
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... ideas which are of the simplest and most obvious charac- ter are represented in English by words derived from the ... idea be a Saxon or a Latin word , by observing whether that object be a primitive and simple or a complex and arti ...
... ideas which are of the simplest and most obvious charac- ter are represented in English by words derived from the ... idea be a Saxon or a Latin word , by observing whether that object be a primitive and simple or a complex and arti ...
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... idea of the difficulty encoun- tered by philologists in fixing the exact period at which the Saxon merged into the English , than the great variety of decisions founded upon the style of this work ; some of our most learned antiquarians ...
... idea of the difficulty encoun- tered by philologists in fixing the exact period at which the Saxon merged into the English , than the great variety of decisions founded upon the style of this work ; some of our most learned antiquarians ...
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Página 71 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope ; to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Página 241 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike...
Página 191 - ... of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history...
Página 234 - I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives, to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.
Página 244 - 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.
Página 168 - Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model: or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept, or nature to be...
Página 51 - Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine : I have never heard Praise of love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine.
Página 288 - 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.
Página 134 - Invest me in my motley ; give me leave To speak my mind, and I will through and through Cleanse the foul body of the infected world, If they will patiently receive my medicine.
Página 168 - Gods; and what resounds In fable or romance of Uther's son Begirt with British and Armoric knights ; And all who since, baptized or infidel, Jousted in Aspramont, or Montalban, Damasco, or Marocco, or Trebisond, Or whom Biserta sent from Afric shore, When Charlemain with all his peerage fell By Fontarabbia.