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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... produced by the joint action of the gen- eral spirit of his age , and the particular mood of his nation upon his personality . The historical and literary past illustrates these facts . Thus Wordsworth and the other poetic renovators of ...
... produced by the joint action of the gen- eral spirit of his age , and the particular mood of his nation upon his personality . The historical and literary past illustrates these facts . Thus Wordsworth and the other poetic renovators of ...
Pagina 15
... produced , which are now extant : the " Prayre of the Middle of Weissenbrun ; " " Muspilli , " an alliterative poem on the Last Judgment ; " Heiland , " a versified ac- count of the life of Christ , pronounced by Vilmar the only really ...
... produced , which are now extant : the " Prayre of the Middle of Weissenbrun ; " " Muspilli , " an alliterative poem on the Last Judgment ; " Heiland , " a versified ac- count of the life of Christ , pronounced by Vilmar the only really ...
Pagina 18
... produced the first blank verse in modern literature . Spinello ( 1268 ) wrote the first prose work of any length in ... producing several works in Latin , he turned to his native tongue , and wrote the " Divina Commedia " -the first poem ...
... produced the first blank verse in modern literature . Spinello ( 1268 ) wrote the first prose work of any length in ... producing several works in Latin , he turned to his native tongue , and wrote the " Divina Commedia " -the first poem ...
Pagina 34
... produced one of equal variety in invention.- HENRY HALLAM . Chaucer , notwithstanding the praises bestowed on him , I think obscene and contemptible ; he owes his celebrity merely to his antiquity , which he does not deserve so well as ...
... produced one of equal variety in invention.- HENRY HALLAM . Chaucer , notwithstanding the praises bestowed on him , I think obscene and contemptible ; he owes his celebrity merely to his antiquity , which he does not deserve so well as ...
Pagina 73
... produce some thousands of his verses which are lame for want of half a foot , and sometimes a whole one , and which no pronunci- ation can make otherwise.— JOHN DRYDEN : Preface to " Fables . " Some few ages after [ the Conquest ] came ...
... produce some thousands of his verses which are lame for want of half a foot , and sometimes a whole one , and which no pronunci- ation can make otherwise.— JOHN DRYDEN : Preface to " Fables . " Some few ages after [ the Conquest ] came ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 159 - 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 255 - 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 159 - 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 347 - ALL human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey. This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, young Was called to empire, and had governed long. In prose and verse was owned, without dispute, Through all the realms of Nonsense absolute.
Pagina 162 - 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 449 - And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works, he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy. But when, or where ? This world was made for Caesar.
Pagina 457 - 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 159 - 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.
Pagina 203 - 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 152 - Jesus' sake forbeare To dig the dust enclosed here. Blessed be he that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones.