Landmarks of English LiteratureD. Appleton, 1886 - 460 sider |
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... popularity is at its height , is surrounded by a crowd of imitators , who copy in an ex- aggerated fashion his peculiar mannerism , and thus afford a very ready means of observing the minute traits of its style , and its little ...
... popularity is at its height , is surrounded by a crowd of imitators , who copy in an ex- aggerated fashion his peculiar mannerism , and thus afford a very ready means of observing the minute traits of its style , and its little ...
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... popularity . In books , as in other things , tastes differ very much . Not a few , whether they are honest enough to confess it or not , agree with worthy George III . in thinking that Shakespeare often wrote " sad stuff ; " some people ...
... popularity . In books , as in other things , tastes differ very much . Not a few , whether they are honest enough to confess it or not , agree with worthy George III . in thinking that Shakespeare often wrote " sad stuff ; " some people ...
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... popular book in the Middle Ages , and that he wrote in 1391 a trea- tise " On the Astrolabe " for the use of his little son Lewis . Having thus enumerated the chief minor works of Chaucer , we pass on to the consideration of the ...
... popular book in the Middle Ages , and that he wrote in 1391 a trea- tise " On the Astrolabe " for the use of his little son Lewis . Having thus enumerated the chief minor works of Chaucer , we pass on to the consideration of the ...
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... popular poet , as is proved by the many existing manuscripts of the " Canterbury Tales , ” by the fact that Caxton ( who declares that " in all his works he excelleth , in mine opinion , all other writers in our English " ) issued two ...
... popular poet , as is proved by the many existing manuscripts of the " Canterbury Tales , ” by the fact that Caxton ( who declares that " in all his works he excelleth , in mine opinion , all other writers in our English " ) issued two ...
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... popularity they long enjoyed among his countrymen . He was born in 1490 , and rose to high office in the court of James V. , with whom he was a great favourite . He had acted as gentleman - usher to that King in his youthful . days ...
... popularity they long enjoyed among his countrymen . He was born in 1490 , and rose to high office in the court of James V. , with whom he was a great favourite . He had acted as gentleman - usher to that King in his youthful . days ...
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Absalom and Achitophel acquainted Addison admirable afterwards appeared appointed beautiful became Ben Jonson born called Canterbury Tales career character Charles Chaucer Church Church of England comedy Congreve contemporaries criticism death died doubt drama dramatists Dryden Earl Elizabethan Elizabethan era England English Essay excellent Faerie Queen fame famous father favour favourite fortune friends genius greatest Hooker Hudibras humour Iliad imagination Isaac Bickerstaff John Johnson King language Latin literary literature lived London Lord Macaulay merit Milton mind moral nature never novels opinions Oxford pamphlet Paradise Lost passages passion period plays poem poet poetical poetry political Pope Pope's popular possessed praise prose writer publication published Puritans reader Restoration satire says Scott Shakespeare Smollett society Sonnets soon Spenser spirit style Swift talents taste thought tion Tom Jones translation verse Whig William Davenant written wrote youth
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Side 123 - I modestly but freely told him ; and, after some further discourse about it, I pleasantly said to him, ' Thou hast said much here of Paradise Lost, but what hast thou to say of Paradise Found...
Side 273 - 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. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame.
Side 62 - With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies ; How silently ; and with how wan a face ! What ! may it be, that even in heavenly place That busy Archer his sharp arrows tries ? Sure, if that long-with-love-acquainted eyes Can judge of love, thou feel'st a lover's case ; I read it in thy looks ; thy languisht grace To me, that feel the like, thy state descries...
Side 85 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul, All the images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Side 116 - Enow of such, as for their bellies' sake Creep and intrude and climb into the fold! Of other care they little reckoning make Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest; Blind mouths!
Side 92 - His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end.
Side 111 - GATHER ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles to-day, To-morrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he's a-getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting. That age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer; But being spent, the worse and worst Times still succeed the former.
Side 72 - Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? — Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. — Her lips suck forth my soul : see, where it flies ! — Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again. Here will I dwell, for heaven is in these lips, And all is dross that is not Helena.
Side 156 - Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out; it is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.
Side 247 - In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth; there is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting: whatever images it can supply, are long ago exhausted; and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind.