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... romance , which , under the appellation of Arcadia , was published in 1590 , about four years after his decease , Sir Philip was the most elegant and accom- plished character of his day ; as a soldier and a scholar he was deemed ...
... romance , which , under the appellation of Arcadia , was published in 1590 , about four years after his decease , Sir Philip was the most elegant and accom- plished character of his day ; as a soldier and a scholar he was deemed ...
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... romance readers of the present century would find it possible to wade through a thick folio of such composition as this . How- ever distinguished Sir Philip Sidney might be for the manly beauty of his person and the he- roism of his ...
... romance readers of the present century would find it possible to wade through a thick folio of such composition as this . How- ever distinguished Sir Philip Sidney might be for the manly beauty of his person and the he- roism of his ...
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... romance , who sees beautiful castles , woods , and meadows ; and at the same time hears the warbling of birds , and the purling of streams ; but , upon the finishing of some secret spell , the fantastic scene breaks up , and the ...
... romance , who sees beautiful castles , woods , and meadows ; and at the same time hears the warbling of birds , and the purling of streams ; but , upon the finishing of some secret spell , the fantastic scene breaks up , and the ...
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... romance , before the wand of the disenchanter . When this arduous task had been completed , when the meretricious colouring of false wit had faded at the touch of truth , it remained to place before the public eye a model of beauty , of ...
... romance , before the wand of the disenchanter . When this arduous task had been completed , when the meretricious colouring of false wit had faded at the touch of truth , it remained to place before the public eye a model of beauty , of ...
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... romance , under the title of Bahar- Danush , or Garden of Knowledge , written by the Persian EINAINT OOLLAH , Anno Domini 1650 , in the reign of the Emperor Shaw Jehaun . Than * Preface to his Arabic Grammar . the style of this work ...
... romance , under the title of Bahar- Danush , or Garden of Knowledge , written by the Persian EINAINT OOLLAH , Anno Domini 1650 , in the reign of the Emperor Shaw Jehaun . Than * Preface to his Arabic Grammar . the style of this work ...
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Page 100 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow; when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with...
Page 36 - I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies...
Page 111 - What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison, HUGHES.
Page 44 - But so have I seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and, at first, it was fair as the morning, and full with the dew of heaven, as a lamb's fleece ; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and to decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age; it bowed the head, and broke its stalk, and, at night, having lost some of its leaves and all its beauty, it fell into the portion...
Page 31 - Lastly, I should not choose this manner of writing, wherein knowing myself inferior to myself, led by the genial power of nature to another task, I have the use, as I may account, but of my left hand.
Page 32 - Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain account of what the mind at home, in the spacious circuits of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting; whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer and those other two of Virgil and Tasso 5 are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief, model...
Page 18 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business.
Page 35 - Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader, that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted...
Page 76 - Thus the ideas, as well as children, of our youth often die before us ; and our minds represent to us those tombs to which we are approaching ; where though the brass and marble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours ; and if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear.
Page 105 - We cannot indeed have a single image in the fancy that did not make its first entrance through the sight; but we have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding those images which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision...