Outlines of English LiteratureSheldon & Company, 1866 - 465 páginas |
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Thomas Budd Shaw. TO THE READER . THE author of the following pages has been engaged , during some years , as Professor of English Literature in the Imperial Alexander Lyceum of St. Petersburg ; and , both in the discharge of his duties ...
Thomas Budd Shaw. TO THE READER . THE author of the following pages has been engaged , during some years , as Professor of English Literature in the Imperial Alexander Lyceum of St. Petersburg ; and , both in the discharge of his duties ...
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... reader's mind before he can profit- ably enter upon the details of the subject , only the greater names the greater types of each period have been exa- mined ; whilst the inferior , or merely imitative , writers have been unscrupulously ...
... reader's mind before he can profit- ably enter upon the details of the subject , only the greater names the greater types of each period have been exa- mined ; whilst the inferior , or merely imitative , writers have been unscrupulously ...
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... somewhat of novelty in its plan , and the attempt to render it as little dry - as read- able , in short prehensiveness . as was consistent with accuracy and com- CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. THE ENGLISH Language . Britons — TO THE READER .
... somewhat of novelty in its plan , and the attempt to render it as little dry - as read- able , in short prehensiveness . as was consistent with accuracy and com- CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. THE ENGLISH Language . Britons — TO THE READER .
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... reader will conclude that , for all practical pur- poses of analogy or of derivation , it has exerted no appreciable influ- ence on the modern speech of the country . Some few words indeed have been adopted into English from the tongue ...
... reader will conclude that , for all practical pur- poses of analogy or of derivation , it has exerted no appreciable influ- ence on the modern speech of the country . Some few words indeed have been adopted into English from the tongue ...
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... reader's attention upon those great works and those illustrious names which form , as it were , the landmarks of the intellectual history of the country , and which gave the tone and colour to the various epochs to which they belong ...
... reader's attention upon those great works and those illustrious names which form , as it were , the landmarks of the intellectual history of the country , and which gave the tone and colour to the various epochs to which they belong ...
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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.