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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... perhaps requires an explanation . , Literature is not a science whose leading principles can be systematically exhibited within a moderate compass , and of which a complete elementary knowledge can be imparted within a limited time ...
... perhaps requires an explanation . , Literature is not a science whose leading principles can be systematically exhibited within a moderate compass , and of which a complete elementary knowledge can be imparted within a limited time ...
Pagina 48
... perhaps , more suc- cessfully exerted . - TYR- WHITT . Probably some treatise on penitence in favor about Chaucer's time . Tyrwhitt says : " I can- not recommend it as a very entertaining or edi- fying performance at this day ; but the ...
... perhaps , more suc- cessfully exerted . - TYR- WHITT . Probably some treatise on penitence in favor about Chaucer's time . Tyrwhitt says : " I can- not recommend it as a very entertaining or edi- fying performance at this day ; but the ...
Pagina 55
... Perhaps in the entire range of ancient and modern lit- erature there is no work that so clearly and freshly paints for future times the picture of the past ; certainly no Eng- lishman has ever approached Chaucer in the power of fix- ing ...
... Perhaps in the entire range of ancient and modern lit- erature there is no work that so clearly and freshly paints for future times the picture of the past ; certainly no Eng- lishman has ever approached Chaucer in the power of fix- ing ...
Pagina 58
... perhaps , even less by pressure of cir- cumstances than by the sheer force of her love , which will go on loving - loving what it can have , when that which it would rather have is for the time unattainable . His Pan- darus is a ...
... perhaps , even less by pressure of cir- cumstances than by the sheer force of her love , which will go on loving - loving what it can have , when that which it would rather have is for the time unattainable . His Pan- darus is a ...
Pagina 66
... perhaps , than by any other poet in the world.- T. B. SHAW . Chaucer was the first who made the love of nature a dis- tinct element in our poetry . He was the first who , in spending the whole day gazing alone on the daisy , set go- ing ...
... perhaps , than by any other poet in the world.- T. B. SHAW . Chaucer was the first who made the love of nature a dis- tinct element in our poetry . He was the first who , in spending the whole day gazing alone on the daisy , set go- ing ...
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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.