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 xii
... true in a republic where every citizen is free and self - governing . The Manual is designed to meet a practical want . In the hope of its answering in some degree to this want , it is commended to the judgment of the teaching ...
... true in a republic where every citizen is free and self - governing . The Manual is designed to meet a practical want . In the hope of its answering in some degree to this want , it is commended to the judgment of the teaching ...
Pagina 45
... Story of Constance , 1 . 4554-5582 . Confessions of the Wife of Bath : Prologue , 1. 5584- 6438 . Virtue , the source of true gentility , 1. 6691-6788 . Tales . The Freres . The Sompnoures . The Clerkes I. - 5 AGE OF CHAUCER . 45.
... Story of Constance , 1 . 4554-5582 . Confessions of the Wife of Bath : Prologue , 1. 5584- 6438 . Virtue , the source of true gentility , 1. 6691-6788 . Tales . The Freres . The Sompnoures . The Clerkes I. - 5 AGE OF CHAUCER . 45.
Pagina 64
... true poet ; besides , he is free from that terrible fault , the perpetual tendency to carica- ture , which that author possesses . In reading Chaucer there comes as vividly before the mental eye as Mr. Wack- ford Squeers and John ...
... true poet ; besides , he is free from that terrible fault , the perpetual tendency to carica- ture , which that author possesses . In reading Chaucer there comes as vividly before the mental eye as Mr. Wack- ford Squeers and John ...
Pagina 67
... true Gallic literature crops up ; obscene tales , prac- tical jokes on one's neighbor , not shrouded in the Cicero- nian style of Boccaccio , but related lightly by a man in good - humor ; above all , active roguery , the trick of laugh ...
... true Gallic literature crops up ; obscene tales , prac- tical jokes on one's neighbor , not shrouded in the Cicero- nian style of Boccaccio , but related lightly by a man in good - humor ; above all , active roguery , the trick of laugh ...
Pagina 74
... help observing , because certain critics ob- serve otherwise , that Chaucer utters as true music as ever came from poet or musician , that some of the sweetest cadences in all our English are extant in his " 74 ENGLISH LITERATURE .
... help observing , because certain critics ob- serve otherwise , that Chaucer utters as true music as ever came from poet or musician , that some of the sweetest cadences in all our English are extant in his " 74 ENGLISH LITERATURE .
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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.