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Pagina 8
... never so accessible in mediæval times , they would have been of no value to the bulk of society , among whom very few could read or write . The man was the authority , not the book , and the clerk with his sermon in the neighbouring ...
... never so accessible in mediæval times , they would have been of no value to the bulk of society , among whom very few could read or write . The man was the authority , not the book , and the clerk with his sermon in the neighbouring ...
Pagina 10
... never been out- lived . Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt are as truly preachers as Fuller and Baxter . Of the thirty - eight essayists who con- tribute to this volume , no less than fifteen were either ordained clergymen or were educated with a ...
... never been out- lived . Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt are as truly preachers as Fuller and Baxter . Of the thirty - eight essayists who con- tribute to this volume , no less than fifteen were either ordained clergymen or were educated with a ...
Pagina 15
... never yet received his full meed of recognition , Daniel Defoe , who attempted every form of literature common to his day , and achieved remarkable results in each . Defoe , as a realistic novelist , was the instructor of Fielding , as ...
... never yet received his full meed of recognition , Daniel Defoe , who attempted every form of literature common to his day , and achieved remarkable results in each . Defoe , as a realistic novelist , was the instructor of Fielding , as ...
Pagina 22
... never cites himself . Montaigne does little else ; he takes for subject his own love for Steven de la Boitie , who , at the time of writing , has been long dead . " Truly , " he says , " if I compare all the rest of my forepassed life ...
... never cites himself . Montaigne does little else ; he takes for subject his own love for Steven de la Boitie , who , at the time of writing , has been long dead . " Truly , " he says , " if I compare all the rest of my forepassed life ...
Pagina 28
... never quite threw off the earlier influence . He attempted many styles of essay - writing , but in none of them did he equal his model . When he preaches , the lesson which he inculcates is not often very profound . His chief quality is ...
... never quite threw off the earlier influence . He attempted many styles of essay - writing , but in none of them did he equal his model . When he preaches , the lesson which he inculcates is not often very profound . His chief quality is ...
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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 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 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 330 - 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 319 - 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 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 29 - It is a strange thing to note the excess of this passion, and how it braves the nature and value of things by this, that the speaking in a perpetual hyperbole, is comely in nothing but in love : neither is it merely in the phrase; for whereas it hath been well said, " That the arch " flatterer, with whom all the petty flatterers have " intelligence, is a man's self...
Pagina 41 - Truth, indeed, came once into the world with her divine Master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on...
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 237 - And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, And as the hasty fruit before the summer; Which when he that looketh upon it seeth, While it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.
Pagina 183 - I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum.
Pagina 289 - 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...