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Pagina 4
... they set the model for Bacon . Printed side by side , Bacon's essay on Truth , and the essay of Jesus the Son of Sirach on Gossip , reveal astonishing similarities , particularly in the terseness of the style 4 THE GENESIS OF THE ESSAY.
... they set the model for Bacon . Printed side by side , Bacon's essay on Truth , and the essay of Jesus the Son of Sirach on Gossip , reveal astonishing similarities , particularly in the terseness of the style 4 THE GENESIS OF THE ESSAY.
Pagina 20
... Truth . John Milton ( 1608-1674 ) ral tex ret ; Of Greatness . Abraham Cowley ( 1618-1667 ) display bject The Advantages of Living in a Garret . Samuel Johnson ( 1709-1784 ) gene but at On the Fear of Death . LATTOW William Hazlitt ...
... Truth . John Milton ( 1608-1674 ) ral tex ret ; Of Greatness . Abraham Cowley ( 1618-1667 ) display bject The Advantages of Living in a Garret . Samuel Johnson ( 1709-1784 ) gene but at On the Fear of Death . LATTOW William Hazlitt ...
Pagina 36
... truth in Astrology , I may outlive a Jubilee : as yet I have not seen one revolution of Saturn , nor hath my pulse beat thirty years ; and yet , excepting one , have seen the Ashes and left under ground all the Kings of Europe ; have ...
... truth in Astrology , I may outlive a Jubilee : as yet I have not seen one revolution of Saturn , nor hath my pulse beat thirty years ; and yet , excepting one , have seen the Ashes and left under ground all the Kings of Europe ; have ...
Pagina 40
... a time jests are an unmannerly crepitus ingenii . And let those take heed who end here with Democritus , that they begin not with Heraclitus hereafter . THE SEARCH AFTER TRUTH1 John Milton Truth indeed came once 40 THE CLASSIC ESSAY.
... a time jests are an unmannerly crepitus ingenii . And let those take heed who end here with Democritus , that they begin not with Heraclitus hereafter . THE SEARCH AFTER TRUTH1 John Milton Truth indeed came once 40 THE CLASSIC ESSAY.
Pagina 41
... Truth , hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces , and scattered them to the four winds . From that time ever since , the sad friends of Truth , such as durst appear , imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body ...
... Truth , hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces , and scattered them to the four winds . From that time ever since , the sad friends of Truth , such as durst appear , imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body ...
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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 critical Daniel Defoe death Defoe delight Doctor Johnson Domrémy earth English essayist 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 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 329 - 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 290 - 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 337 - Its loveliness increases ; it will never Pass into nothingness ; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing A flowery band to bind us to the earth...
Pagina 319 - Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances.
Pagina 41 - Truth, indeed, came once into the world with her divine Master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on...
Pagina 222 - So great a man he seems to me, that thinking of him is like thinking of an empire falling. We have other great names to mention — none I think, however, so great or so gloomy.
Pagina 262 - He heeded not reviling tones, Nor sold his heart to idle moans, Tho' cursed and scorn'd, and bruised with stones; 'But looking upward, full of grace, He pray'd, and from a happy place God's glory smote him on the face.
Pagina 291 - 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 183 - I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum.
Pagina 145 - 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...