Essays on English LiteratureB.M. Pickering, 1861 - 350 pagina's |
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Pagina 7
... speak of those deficiencies in quali- fied terms . While it is true ( for example ) that romantic or important incidents may be entirely absent from the ftory , it must be remembered that as our opening analogy fuggefts - the va ...
... speak of those deficiencies in quali- fied terms . While it is true ( for example ) that romantic or important incidents may be entirely absent from the ftory , it must be remembered that as our opening analogy fuggefts - the va ...
Pagina 12
... speak flightingly , or with other than dutiful remembrance and affection , of this period of his childhood and youth . His reminiscences of peafant - life and early trials , - including some months of miserable schooling , in which his ...
... speak flightingly , or with other than dutiful remembrance and affection , of this period of his childhood and youth . His reminiscences of peafant - life and early trials , - including some months of miserable schooling , in which his ...
Pagina 37
... speaking of themselves , there is fomething repulfive at the firft in the in- ordinate vanity of their author . The " glory " which he supposes himself to have acquired is ever present with him ; haunts him , as he would say , with a ...
... speaking of themselves , there is fomething repulfive at the firft in the in- ordinate vanity of their author . The " glory " which he supposes himself to have acquired is ever present with him ; haunts him , as he would say , with a ...
Pagina 55
... speaking of books , or birds , or neighbours , or companions of any kind . His Auto - biography appeared in three volumes , but attracted little notice and lefs commendation . The ftyle is often careless and faulty in the extreme ; and ...
... speaking of books , or birds , or neighbours , or companions of any kind . His Auto - biography appeared in three volumes , but attracted little notice and lefs commendation . The ftyle is often careless and faulty in the extreme ; and ...
Pagina 117
... speak in qualified and measured terms of the other , it is that we may the better accomplish the ulterior purpose we have in view , by showing that , if the public accept of this false teacher as their prophet , it is not because they ...
... speak in qualified and measured terms of the other , it is that we may the better accomplish the ulterior purpose we have in view , by showing that , if the public accept of this false teacher as their prophet , it is not because they ...
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
admiration againſt alfo almoſt alſo anſwer Balder beauty becauſe beſt Bofwell cafe Carlyle Carlyle's cauſe character characteriſtic claſs compariſon confifts courſe criticiſm diftinct Divine Engliſh eſpecially eſtimate exerciſe expreffion facred faid fame feems fentiment fhall firſt fome ftill ftyle fuccefs fuch fuffer furniſh fympathy genius Gilfillan greatneſs heart higheſt himſelf hiſtory human illuftrated intereft intereſt itſelf Johnſon juft juſt juſtify laft laſt leaſt lefs leſs literary loft maſter meaſure merit Milton mind moft moral moſt mufic muſt nature obfervation occafion ourſelves paffage paffion perſonal philofopher pleaſe pleaſure poem poet poet's poetic poetry poffible pofition Pollok praiſe preſent profe promiſe purpoſe reader reaſon reſpect reſult ſay ſcene ſchool ſee ſeems ſeen ſenſe ſerious ſhall ſhe ſhould ſhow Silvio Pellico ſome ſomething ſpace ſpeak ſpirit ſtars ſtate ſtill ſtudy ſtyle ſubject ſuch taſte themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thouſand tion truth uſe verſe whoſe wiſdom
Populaire passages
Pagina 90 - I had hope to spend, Quiet though sad, the respite of that day That must be mortal to us both. O flowers That never will in other climate grow...
Pagina 170 - Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto ; whom no man hath seen, nor can see : to whom be honour and power everlasting.
Pagina 90 - With what to sight or smell was sweet, from thee How shall I part, and whither wander down Into a lower world, to this obscure And wild ? how shall we breathe in other air Less pure, accustom'd to immortal fruits?
Pagina 72 - Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed...
Pagina 151 - Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, Makes that and the action fine.
Pagina 90 - Stood visible, among these pines his voice I heard, here with him at this fountain talk'd...
Pagina 258 - ... in her cloud, And the lark drop down at his feet. The swallow stopt as he hunted the bee, The snake slipt under a spray, The wild hawk stood with the down on his beak, And stared, with his foot on the prey, And the nightingale thought, '/ I have sung many songs, But never a one so gay, For he sings of what the world will be When the years have died away.
Pagina 79 - Through optic glafs the Tufcan art.ift views At evening from the top of Fefole, Or in Valdarno, to defcry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her fpotty globe. His fpear, to equal which the talleft pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the maft Of fome great ammiral, were but a wand, He walk'd with to fupport uneafy fteps Over the burning marie...
Pagina 91 - ... fountain talk'd :' So many grateful altars I would rear Of grassy turf, and pile up every stone Of...
Pagina 139 - The word this man spoke has been the lifeguidance now of one hundred and eighty millions of men these twelve hundred years. These hundred and eighty millions were made by God as well as we. A greater number of God's creatures believe in Mahomet's word at this hour than in any other word whatever.