A Popular Manual of English Literature: Containing Outlines of the Literature of France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United States of America, Volume 1Harper & brothers, 1885 - 1150 pagina's |
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Pagina 26
... look . " Though possessed of little literary merit , Gower's works were popular with the learned caster becomes till the time of Shakespeare . His diction is more refined and accurate than that of Chaucer , and is copiously tinctured ...
... look . " Though possessed of little literary merit , Gower's works were popular with the learned caster becomes till the time of Shakespeare . His diction is more refined and accurate than that of Chaucer , and is copiously tinctured ...
Pagina 34
... look into Chaucer . . . will find his comic vein , like that of Shakespeare , to be only like one of mercury imperceptibly mingled with a mine of gold . - JOSEPH WARTON . The affecting parts of Chaucer are almost always expressed in ...
... look into Chaucer . . . will find his comic vein , like that of Shakespeare , to be only like one of mercury imperceptibly mingled with a mine of gold . - JOSEPH WARTON . The affecting parts of Chaucer are almost always expressed in ...
Pagina 127
... look- ing forehead ; a mouth almost obscured by the mustache , but still showing rather full lips , denoting feeling , well set together , so that the warmth of feeling shall not run riot , with a touch of sadness in them . Such is the look ...
... look- ing forehead ; a mouth almost obscured by the mustache , but still showing rather full lips , denoting feeling , well set together , so that the warmth of feeling shall not run riot , with a touch of sadness in them . Such is the look ...
Pagina 136
... looks , The lineaments of gospel books . I trow that countenance cannot lie , Whose thoughts are legible in the eye ... look of regard on the poet that was destined to inspire her future Milton , and the other on her maritime hero , who ...
... looks , The lineaments of gospel books . I trow that countenance cannot lie , Whose thoughts are legible in the eye ... look of regard on the poet that was destined to inspire her future Milton , and the other on her maritime hero , who ...
Pagina 138
... look golden as she was dispensing her praises and her pensions ; we can even excuse the eager partisan who vilified the Queen of Scots and justified her execution ; but we cannot applaud the panegyrist of Lord Grey's administration in ...
... look golden as she was dispensing her praises and her pensions ; we can even excuse the eager partisan who vilified the Queen of Scots and justified her execution ; but we cannot applaud the panegyrist of Lord Grey's administration in ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 510 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Pagina 191 - Sweet Swan of Avon ! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our James...
Pagina 212 - It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown. His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway : It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself, And earthly power doth then show likest God's, When mercy seasons justice.
Pagina 295 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Pagina 191 - Muses : For if I thought my judgment were of years, I should commit thee surely with thy peers, And tell how far thou didst our Lyly outshine. Or sporting Kyd, or Marlowe's mighty line.
Pagina 194 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Pagina 132 - To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Pagina 531 - 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.
Pagina 237 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul, All the images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Pagina 191 - Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give.