History of English Literature, Volume 2Edmonston and Douglas, 1871 - English literature |
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... whole style is so pestered with figurative expressions , that it is as affected as it is obscure . ' 2 Ben Jonson himself often has bad plots , redundancies , barbarisms : ' Well - placing of words , for the sweetness of pronunciation ...
... whole style is so pestered with figurative expressions , that it is as affected as it is obscure . ' 2 Ben Jonson himself often has bad plots , redundancies , barbarisms : ' Well - placing of words , for the sweetness of pronunciation ...
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... whole ; it is an animated existence , which lives on its own blood , and which languishes or dies if deprived of some of its blood and supplied from the veins of another . Shakspeare's imagination cannot be guided by Racine's reason ...
... whole ; it is an animated existence , which lives on its own blood , and which languishes or dies if deprived of some of its blood and supplied from the veins of another . Shakspeare's imagination cannot be guided by Racine's reason ...
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... whole world , for a whole world is necessary to form noble souls . Virtue , in the French tragic poets , is founded on reason , religion , education , philosophy . Their characters have that uprightness of mind , that clearness of logic ...
... whole world , for a whole world is necessary to form noble souls . Virtue , in the French tragic poets , is founded on reason , religion , education , philosophy . Their characters have that uprightness of mind , that clearness of logic ...
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... whole art of special pleading . He has happy antitheses , ornamental epithets , finely - wrought comparisons , and all the artifices of the literary mind . What is most striking is , that he abandons the dramatic and national verse ...
... whole art of special pleading . He has happy antitheses , ornamental epithets , finely - wrought comparisons , and all the artifices of the literary mind . What is most striking is , that he abandons the dramatic and national verse ...
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... whole man , is spread on all whom he touches , and contorts and casts them down together in a convulsive delirium . Like Shak- speare , he has found poignant and living words , ' which lay bare the depths of humanity , the strange noise ...
... whole man , is spread on all whom he touches , and contorts and casts them down together in a convulsive delirium . Like Shak- speare , he has found poignant and living words , ' which lay bare the depths of humanity , the strange noise ...
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Page 282 - I STOOD in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs ; A palace and a prison on each hand : I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles...
Page 246 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Page 189 - WE were now treading that illustrious Island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible.
Page 523 - Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight.
Page 77 - If I were an American as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never, never, never!
Page 43 - Now strike the golden lyre again, A louder yet, and yet a louder strain. Break his bands of sleep asunder, And rouse him, like a rattling peal of thunder. Hark, hark, the horrid sound Has raised up his head : As awaked from the dead, And amazed, he stares around. Revenge, revenge...
Page 147 - I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London that a young, healthy child well nursed is, at a year old, . a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.
Page 204 - This day, black Omens threat the brightest Fair, That e'er deserv'da watchful spirit's care; Some dire disaster, or by force, or slight; But what, or where, the fates have wrapt in night. Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law, Or some frail China jar receive a flaw; Or stain her honour or her new brocade; Forget her pray'rs, or miss a masquerade; Or lose her heart, or necklace, at a ball; Or whether Heav'n has doom'd that Shock must fall.
Page 103 - It was said of Socrates, that he brought philosophy down from heaven, to inhabit among men; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought philosophy out of closets and libraries, schools and colleges, to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea-tables and in coffee-houses.
Page 148 - A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends, and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish...