The Literary Reader: Typical Selections from Some of the Best British and American Authors, from Shakespeare to the Present Time, Chronologically Arranged with Biographical and Critical Sketches and Numerous Notes, Etc., EtcIvison, Blakeman, Taylor, 1874 - 426 pagina's |
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Pagina vi
... less powerfully indeed , to exclude specimens of Chaucer's poems . He was , it is true , the founder of Eng- lish literature , and the first who demonstrated that the English language was susceptible of forcible and harmonious ...
... less powerfully indeed , to exclude specimens of Chaucer's poems . He was , it is true , the founder of Eng- lish literature , and the first who demonstrated that the English language was susceptible of forcible and harmonious ...
Pagina 9
... less happier lands , This blessed plot , this earth , this realm , this England . THE MIND . FOR ' t is the mind that makes the body rich : And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds , So honor peereth in the meanest habit . What ...
... less happier lands , This blessed plot , this earth , this realm , this England . THE MIND . FOR ' t is the mind that makes the body rich : And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds , So honor peereth in the meanest habit . What ...
Pagina 14
... less wonderful . All things considered , his Gulliver's Travels must be regarded as his greatest work , though several eminent critics , including Hal- lam , have found it inferior to The Tale of a Tub . Perhaps these words of Lord ...
... less wonderful . All things considered , his Gulliver's Travels must be regarded as his greatest work , though several eminent critics , including Hal- lam , have found it inferior to The Tale of a Tub . Perhaps these words of Lord ...
Pagina 25
... less alike the politic and wise ; All sly slow things , with circumspective eyes : Men in their loose unguarded hours they take , Not that themselves are wise , but others weak . But grant that those can conquer , these can cheat ...
... less alike the politic and wise ; All sly slow things , with circumspective eyes : Men in their loose unguarded hours they take , Not that themselves are wise , but others weak . But grant that those can conquer , these can cheat ...
Pagina 28
... less magnificence , according to the rank of those for whom they were designed . The roofs were turned into arches of massy stone , joined by a cement that grew harder by time , and the building stood from century to century deriding ...
... less magnificence , according to the rank of those for whom they were designed . The roofs were turned into arches of massy stone , joined by a cement that grew harder by time , and the building stood from century to century deriding ...
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The Literary Reader: Typical Selections from the Best British and American ... George Rhett Cathcart Volledige weergave - 1876 |
The Literary Reader: Typical Selections from Some of the Best British and ... George Rhett Cathcart Volledige weergave - 1878 |
The Literary Reader: Typical Selections from Some of the Best British and ... George Rhett Cathcart Volledige weergave - 1879 |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 75 - I N Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round : And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills, Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
Pagina 116 - Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stood, In brighter light and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood ? Alas! they all are in their graves: the gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds, with the fair and good of ours. The rain is falling where they lie; but the cold November rain Calls not, from out the gloomy earth, the lovely ones again.
Pagina 65 - So stately his form, and so lovely her face, That never a hall such a galliard did grace: While her mother did fret, and her father did fume, And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and...
Pagina 11 - And chiefly Thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou know'st ; Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dovelike satst brooding on the vast abyss, And madest it pregnant: What in me is dark, Illumine; what is low, raise and support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.
Pagina 119 - Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there; And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead reign there alone.
Pagina 76 - And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething, As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing, A mighty fountain momently was forced...
Pagina 30 - WE were now treading that illustrious Island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity...
Pagina 3 - scapes i' the imminent deadly breach, Of being taken by the insolent foe And sold to slavery, of my redemption thence And portance in my travel's history; Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks and hills whose heads touch heaven. It was my hint to speak, such was the process; And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Pagina 117 - To him who, in the love of Nature, holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language : for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty ; and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Pagina 5 - Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man ; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honors thick upon him ; The third day, comes a frost, a killing frost ; And — when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.