A Compendious History of English Literature and of the English Language, from the Norman Conquest: with Numerous Specimens, Bind 2Griffin, Bohn, 1861 |
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... style is in many respects , it would be doing an injustice to his poem to compare it with Phineas Fletcher's , either in regard to the degree in which nature and propriety are violated in the principle and manner of the composition , or ...
... style is in many respects , it would be doing an injustice to his poem to compare it with Phineas Fletcher's , either in regard to the degree in which nature and propriety are violated in the principle and manner of the composition , or ...
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... style , into which it might in other circumstances have fallen , in all probability by its having been composed with little effort or elaboration , and chiefly to relieve and amuse his own mind by the melodious expression of his ...
... style , into which it might in other circumstances have fallen , in all probability by its having been composed with little effort or elaboration , and chiefly to relieve and amuse his own mind by the melodious expression of his ...
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... style or manner , that makes the difference ; he never rises to anything higher than wit ; and he is as witty in his elegies as in his ballads . As that ingredient , however , is not so suitable for the former as for the latter , his ...
... style or manner , that makes the difference ; he never rises to anything higher than wit ; and he is as witty in his elegies as in his ballads . As that ingredient , however , is not so suitable for the former as for the latter , his ...
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... style in question appears to have been borrowed from Italy : it came in , at least , with the study and imitation of the Italian poetry , being caught apparently from the school of Petrarch , or rather of his later followers , about the ...
... style in question appears to have been borrowed from Italy : it came in , at least , with the study and imitation of the Italian poetry , being caught apparently from the school of Petrarch , or rather of his later followers , about the ...
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... style , the prime ingredient and almost only thing needful in the com- position ; when the thought is false and absurd it is not tortured into still greater absurdity and grotesqueness by the perpetration of all sorts of violence upon ...
... style , the prime ingredient and almost only thing needful in the com- position ; when the thought is false and absurd it is not tortured into still greater absurdity and grotesqueness by the perpetration of all sorts of violence upon ...
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A Compendious History of English Literature, and of the English Language ... George Lillie Craik Ingen forhåndsvisning - 2015 |
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Side 460 - All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame. Oft in my waking dreams do I Live o'er again that happy hour, When midway on the mount I lay, Beside the ruined tower.
Side 77 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Side 502 - We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Side 463 - For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to be still and patient, all I can ; And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all the natural man— This was my sole resource, my only plan : Till that which suits a part infects the whole, And now is almoit grown the habit of my soul.
Side 463 - Heaven lies about us in our infancy. Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy; But he beholds the light and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy. The youth who daily farther from the East Must travel, still is Nature's priest, And, by the vision splendid, Is on his way attended. At length the man perceives it die away And fade into the light of common day.
Side 505 - I cannot see what flowers are at my feet Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet...
Side 505 - Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy ! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod.
Side 90 - To his Coy Mistress Had we but world enough and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime. We would sit down and think which way To walk and pass our long love's day. Thou by the Indian Ganges' side Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide Of Huraber would complain.
Side 208 - Truth may, perhaps, come to the price of a pearl that showeth best by day, but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ^ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?
Side 360 - With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips are thine — thy own sweet smile I see, The same that oft in childhood solaced me ; Voice only fails, else how distinct they say, " Grieve not, my child, chase all thy fears away!