A manual of English literature and of the history of the English language [abridged from Sketches of the history of literature and learning in England].Griffin, Bohn, and Company, 1862 - 544 sider |
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... nature and genius . The Gothic tongues , and the Latin or Romance tongues also , indeed , belong to distinct branches of what is called the Indo - European family ; but the Celtic branch , though admitted to be of the same tree , has ...
... nature and genius . The Gothic tongues , and the Latin or Romance tongues also , indeed , belong to distinct branches of what is called the Indo - European family ; but the Celtic branch , though admitted to be of the same tree , has ...
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... Nature ) , which he cha- racterises as 66 distinguished for its Aristotelian acuteness and extensive information . ' In one place " he takes occasion , " it is observed , " to give concise and able definitions of the seven * Hist ...
... Nature ) , which he cha- racterises as 66 distinguished for its Aristotelian acuteness and extensive information . ' In one place " he takes occasion , " it is observed , " to give concise and able definitions of the seven * Hist ...
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... natural demand on the part of William's followers or fellow - soldiers for a share in the profits and advan- tages of their common enterprise , which would probably in any case have compelled him eventually to surrender his new sub ...
... natural demand on the part of William's followers or fellow - soldiers for a share in the profits and advan- tages of their common enterprise , which would probably in any case have compelled him eventually to surrender his new sub ...
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... natural adaptation , inasmuch as , at the same time that it stands in this remarkable position in the Old World , its position is still more pre - eminent in the New World , whether that desig- nation be confined to the continent of ...
... natural adaptation , inasmuch as , at the same time that it stands in this remarkable position in the Old World , its position is still more pre - eminent in the New World , whether that desig- nation be confined to the continent of ...
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... nature . " The present age , however , had outgrown the simplicity of this arrangement ; and various new studies had been added to the ancient seven , as necessary to complete the circle of the sciences and the curriculum of a liberal ...
... nature . " The present age , however , had outgrown the simplicity of this arrangement ; and various new studies had been added to the ancient seven , as necessary to complete the circle of the sciences and the curriculum of a liberal ...
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Side 489 - What thou art we know not: What is most like thee ? From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody. Like a poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not...
Side 296 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war; Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Side 316 - The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Side 437 - O' clod or stane, Adorns the histie stibble-field, Unseen, alane. There, in thy scanty mantle clad, Thy snawie bosom sun-ward spread, Thou lifts thy unassuming head In humble guise; But now the share uptears thy bed, And low thou lies! Such is the fate of artless maid, Sweet floweret of the rural shade ! By love's simplicity betray'd, And guileless trust, Till she, like thee, all soil'd, is laid Low i
Side 494 - 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 493 - MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, > Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk : 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness, — That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease.
Side 518 - Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown rats, black rats, gray rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and dozens, Brothers, sisters, husbands, wives — Followed the Piper for their lives.
Side 493 - O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth ; That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim...
Side 494 - Forlorn ! the very word is like a bell To toll me back from thee to my sole self ! Adieu ! the fancy cannot cheat so well As she is famed to do, deceiving elf. Adieu ! adieu ! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream, Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep In the next valley-glades : Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music: — do I wake or sleep?
Side 430 - Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet— Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave; nor did there want Cornice or frieze, with bossy sculptures graven: The roof was fretted gold.