English Literature of the Nineteenth Century: On the Plan of the Author's "Compendium of English Literature," and Supplementary to It. Designed for Colleges and Advanced Classes in Schools, as Well as for Private ReadingE.C. & J. Biddle, 1857 - 785 páginas |
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... less a duty than a pleasure to do all I could to improve it when it should be published in a permanent form . Accordingly , since the first appearance of the work , I have given not only the chief portion of my own time , aside from my ...
... less a duty than a pleasure to do all I could to improve it when it should be published in a permanent form . Accordingly , since the first appearance of the work , I have given not only the chief portion of my own time , aside from my ...
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... less , in this social character , than in the closet of criticism or the chair of instruction . " He did not , however , sink into literary idleness . In 1797 , he edited the works of Pope , in nine volumes , octavo . The notes to this ...
... less , in this social character , than in the closet of criticism or the chair of instruction . " He did not , however , sink into literary idleness . In 1797 , he edited the works of Pope , in nine volumes , octavo . The notes to this ...
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... less credulous , I know not . I have learnt to bear my infirmities , and not to trust to the skill of physicians for curing them . I endeavor to drink deep of philosophy , and be wise when I cannot be merry , easy when I cannot be glad ...
... less credulous , I know not . I have learnt to bear my infirmities , and not to trust to the skill of physicians for curing them . I endeavor to drink deep of philosophy , and be wise when I cannot be merry , easy when I cannot be glad ...
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... less affecting are their animadversions than the testimony of the person concerned ! Whatever belongs to the part of the chorus has hardly the force of dramatic imitation . The chorus is in a manner without personal character , or ...
... less affecting are their animadversions than the testimony of the person concerned ! Whatever belongs to the part of the chorus has hardly the force of dramatic imitation . The chorus is in a manner without personal character , or ...
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... less occur in the life of every one , be filled up ? How can we contrive to dis- pose of them in any way that shall be more agreeable in itself , or more consonant to the dignity of the human mind , than in the entertainments of taste ...
... less occur in the life of every one , be filled up ? How can we contrive to dis- pose of them in any way that shall be more agreeable in itself , or more consonant to the dignity of the human mind , than in the entertainments of taste ...
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Página 540 - The floating clouds their state shall lend To her ; for her the willow bend ; Nor shall she fail to see Even in the motions of the Storm Grace that shall mould the Maiden's form By silent sympathy. "The stars of midnight shall be dear To her ; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.
Página 162 - The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold ; . And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Página 444 - With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread — Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, Would that its tone could reach the Rich ! She sang this
Página 543 - THE world is too much with us: late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not.
Página 162 - And there lay the rider distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail...
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Página 444 - Work, work, work! From weary chime to chime ; Work, work, work, As prisoners work for crime : Band and gusset and seam, Seam and gusset and band, Till the heart is sick, and the brain benumbed, As well as the weary hand.
Página 237 - With priest's and warrior's voice between. No portents now our foes amaze, Forsaken Israel wanders lone : Our fathers would not know THY ways, And THOU hast left them to their own. But, present still, though now unseen ! When brightly shines the prosperous day, Be thoughts of THEE a cloudy screen To temper the deceitful ray. And...
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