The Afternoon Lectures on English Literature, Delivered in the Theatre of the Museum of Industry, S. Stephen's Green, Dublin, in May and June 1863Robert Henry Martley, Richard Denny Urlin Bell and Daldy, 1863 - 252 páginas |
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... fay with any degree of affurance . All that can be faid is that the fouthern or tropical races of men think quickly , the northern flowly , and that it is probable that the cha- racter of the Celt was formed and fixed under fouthern ...
... fay with any degree of affurance . All that can be faid is that the fouthern or tropical races of men think quickly , the northern flowly , and that it is probable that the cha- racter of the Celt was formed and fixed under fouthern ...
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... fay , that English genius is characterised by ftrong and diftin & t conception of detail . There is no literature in the world which fhows fuch a sense of character as that which has iffued from the English mind , none in which all the ...
... fay , that English genius is characterised by ftrong and diftin & t conception of detail . There is no literature in the world which fhows fuch a sense of character as that which has iffued from the English mind , none in which all the ...
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... fay perfections , for there is surely nothing in literature more abfolutely free from defect than his sketches of the pilgrims to Canterbury , nothing which seems more incapable of increase than the humour of the characters , and of ...
... fay perfections , for there is surely nothing in literature more abfolutely free from defect than his sketches of the pilgrims to Canterbury , nothing which seems more incapable of increase than the humour of the characters , and of ...
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... fay literally glowed ) when he spoke with feeling or interest . I never faw fuch another eye in a human head , though I have seen the most distinguished men of my time . " . That expreffion of fenfe and fhrewdness reveals to us the same ...
... fay literally glowed ) when he spoke with feeling or interest . I never faw fuch another eye in a human head , though I have seen the most distinguished men of my time . " . That expreffion of fenfe and fhrewdness reveals to us the same ...
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... fays Sifmondi , " the ideal world fuch as it existed in the imaginations of the romance writers . " Its effential character was devotion to women and to honour . Some have traced the origin of this chival- rous devotion to women in the ...
... fays Sifmondi , " the ideal world fuch as it existed in the imaginations of the romance writers . " Its effential character was devotion to women and to honour . Some have traced the origin of this chival- rous devotion to women in the ...
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Página 87 - LONDON, 1802. MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
Página 118 - 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.
Página 123 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Página 64 - ... All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously but luckily: when he describes anything you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Página 65 - If I would compare him with Shakespeare, I must acknowledge him the more correct poet, but Shakespeare the greater wit. Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets; Jonson was the Virgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
Página 3 - Flower (WH) — AN INTRODUCTION TO THE OSTEOLOGY OF THE MAMMALIA. Being the Substance of the Course of Lectures delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1870. By Professor WH FLOWER, FRS, FRCS With numerous Illustrations.
Página 47 - tis no matter; Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on ? how then ? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour? What is that honour? Air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it? He that died o
Página 30 - There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness in all his lineaments; the eye alone, I think, indicated the poetical character and temperament. It was large and of a dark cast, which glowed, I say literally glowed, when he spoke with feeling or interest.
Página 119 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: how would you be, If He, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are ? O, think on that ; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Página 24 - THIS series is intended to supply for the use of Schools and Students cheap and accurate editions of the Classics, which shall be superior in mechanical execution to the small German editions now current in this country, and more convenient in form. The texts of the Bibliotheca Classics, and Grammar School Classics, so far as they have been published, will be adopted.