A Literary History of EnglandLongmans, Green and Company, 1929 - 392 pagina's |
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Pagina 166
... praise , assent with civil leer , And , without sneering , teach the rest to sneer ; Like Cato , give his little senate laws , And sit attentive to his own applause , While wits and templars every sentence raise , And wonder with a ...
... praise , assent with civil leer , And , without sneering , teach the rest to sneer ; Like Cato , give his little senate laws , And sit attentive to his own applause , While wits and templars every sentence raise , And wonder with a ...
Pagina 173
... praise . Point after point is set forth , with the air of one who is advancing a sound business proposition ; and the pamphlet is brought to a conclusion by a remark as shocking to humanity as it is consummate in satire . VI Swift , as ...
... praise . Point after point is set forth , with the air of one who is advancing a sound business proposition ; and the pamphlet is brought to a conclusion by a remark as shocking to humanity as it is consummate in satire . VI Swift , as ...
Pagina 273
Bernard Groom. He had written praises of a regicide ; He had written praises of all kings whatever ; He had written for republics far and wide , And then against them , bitterer than ever ; For pantisocracy he once had cried Aloud , a ...
Bernard Groom. He had written praises of a regicide ; He had written praises of all kings whatever ; He had written for republics far and wide , And then against them , bitterer than ever ; For pantisocracy he once had cried Aloud , a ...
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admiration Anglo-Saxon appeared beauty Beelzebub began blank verse Byron cæsura career character charm Chaucer chief Church Coleridge Commodus couplet criticism death delight drama dream Dryden early Elizabethan England English English poetry epic essays expression Faerie Queene Falstaff feeling fiction French Revolution genius give greatest heart heroic couplet honour human humour imagination instance Jane Austen Johnson Keats King Lady language lines literary literature living lyrical Lyrical Ballads manner master mediæval metre Milton mind narrative nature never novel novelist Paradise Lost passages passion perhaps Pindaric play poem poet poet's poetic poetry political Pope praise prose qualities reader rhyme romance satire scenes Scott sense Shakespeare Shelley sonnets speeches Spenser spirit stanza story style Swift taste Tennyson thee things thou thought tragedy verse Victorian Whig whole words Wordsworth writers written wrote