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... literary art , has its roots in remote antiquity . It is in origin a brief discourse , a compact homily , a compendium of thought , experience , and observation . Its relation to the spoken word is obvious . Even in our own day the ...
... literary art , has its roots in remote antiquity . It is in origin a brief discourse , a compact homily , a compendium of thought , experience , and observation . Its relation to the spoken word is obvious . Even in our own day the ...
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... literary form . Mr. R. G. Moulton , in his admirable Modern Readers ' Bible , has rendered a great service to literature by enabling the reader to distinguish the great variety of method practised in these wisdom - books . What appears ...
... literary form . Mr. R. G. Moulton , in his admirable Modern Readers ' Bible , has rendered a great service to literature by enabling the reader to distinguish the great variety of method practised in these wisdom - books . What appears ...
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... literary expression , until in Cicero we come to the greatest of ancient essayists . We have already seen ( vide Great English Letter - Writers , vol . i , p . 14 ) that Cicero was a pioneer in the art of letter - writing , who set the ...
... literary expression , until in Cicero we come to the greatest of ancient essayists . We have already seen ( vide Great English Letter - Writers , vol . i , p . 14 ) that Cicero was a pioneer in the art of letter - writing , who set the ...
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... literary publication for the vast majority of men . It must be remembered also that culture was very largely confined to ecclesiastics , who naturally found the spoken word the most convenient vehicle for imparting ideas . One of the ...
... literary publication for the vast majority of men . It must be remembered also that culture was very largely confined to ecclesiastics , who naturally found the spoken word the most convenient vehicle for imparting ideas . One of the ...
Pagina 8
... literary expression . It will be readily perceived that the lectures of these mediæval teachers must have borne a strong resemblance to the essay , and were indeed spoken essays . The teachers themselves belonged for the most part to ...
... literary expression . It will be readily perceived that the lectures of these mediæval teachers must have borne a strong resemblance to the essay , and were indeed spoken essays . The teachers themselves belonged for the most part to ...
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The Great English Essayists: With Introductory Essays and Notes William James Dawson,Coningsby Dawson Volledige weergave - 1909 |
The Great English Essayists: With Introductory Essays and Notes William James Dawson,Coningsby Dawson Volledige weergave - 1909 |
The Great English Essayists: With Introductory Essays and Notes William James Dawson,Coningsby Dawson Volledige weergave - 1909 |
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Addison admirable April Fool Bacon beauty Bishop Bishop of Beauvais called Carlyle character Charles Lamb Charlesfort Church critical Daniel Defoe death Defoe delight Domrémy earth English essayists eyes fancy fear feel France garret genius give Goldsmith grave Gray hand hath hear heard heart heaven honour human humour hundred John Milton Johnson Jonathan Swift lady learned letter essay literary literature live look Lord Matthew Arnold ment Milton mind Montaigne moral nature never night observe Oliver Goldsmith once pain pass passion perhaps person pleasure poem poet poetry poor prose reader rest Richard Dowling Samuel Johnson seemed short-story essay sometimes soul spirit Stella style suffer sweet Swift thee things Thomas De Quincey thou thought tion told true truth turn verse whole William Hazlitt words writes young
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Pagina 327 - Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone: Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss Though winning near the goal — yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!
Pagina 101 - I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her \vith insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
Pagina 317 - English man-ofwar, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Pagina 41 - Truth indeed came once into the world with her divine Master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on. But when he ascended, and his apostles after him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers...
Pagina 288 - And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age, who will deny that Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling us nearer to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection, — to beauty, in a word, which is only truth seen from another side?
Pagina 289 - What we have to do is to be for ever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions, never acquiescing in a facile orthodoxy of Comte, or of Hegel, or of our own.
Pagina 289 - Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face; some tone on the hills or the sea is choicer than the rest; some mood of passion or insight or intellectual excitement is irresistibly real and attractive to us, - for that moment only.
Pagina 181 - I loved Ophelia : forty thousand brothers Could not, with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum.
Pagina 287 - Beautiful city ! so venerable, so lovely, so unravaged by the fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene ! There are our young barbarians, all at play ! And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age, who will deny that Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling us nearer to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection...
Pagina 143 - I sat with them until it was very late, sometimes in merry, sometimes in serious discourse, with this particular pleasure, which gives the only true relish to all conversation, a sense that every one of us liked each other. I went home considering the different conditions of a married life and that of a bachelor; and I must confess it struck me with a secret concern, to reflect, that whenever I go off I shall leave no traces behind me. In this pensive mood I...