Outlines of English Literature: By Thomas B. ShawBlanchard and Lea, 1852 - 465 pages |
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... classical Rome to a greater or to a less degree exactly in proportion as the communication with the Romans was closer or more relaxed . Further , if the language of the conquerors happened to be , as was the case with that of Rome , an ...
... classical Rome to a greater or to a less degree exactly in proportion as the communication with the Romans was closer or more relaxed . Further , if the language of the conquerors happened to be , as was the case with that of Rome , an ...
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... classical literature over the barbarous and now exhausted invention of the Romanz poets , has chosen this in- genious method of ridiculing the commonplace tales of chivalry ; but so exquisitely grave is the irony in this passage , that ...
... classical literature over the barbarous and now exhausted invention of the Romanz poets , has chosen this in- genious method of ridiculing the commonplace tales of chivalry ; but so exquisitely grave is the irony in this passage , that ...
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... classical idyllists , and gave to his shepherds and his scenery as much of an English air as he could by adopting English names and describing English nature : the same result also was aimed at in the language , into which he strove to ...
... classical idyllists , and gave to his shepherds and his scenery as much of an English air as he could by adopting English names and describing English nature : the same result also was aimed at in the language , into which he strove to ...
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... classical or syllabic mode of versification in English poetry . He has left us some most inimitable specimens of dactylic and iambic measures , which furnish a ludicrous proof of the inherent absurdity of the project . Spenser , too ...
... classical or syllabic mode of versification in English poetry . He has left us some most inimitable specimens of dactylic and iambic measures , which furnish a ludicrous proof of the inherent absurdity of the project . Spenser , too ...
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... classical mythology , by a system of moral and political interpretation , much less founded on probability than calculated to elevate , in our eyes , the degree of knowledge possessed by the pagan world . The following is the judg- ment ...
... classical mythology , by a system of moral and political interpretation , much less founded on probability than calculated to elevate , in our eyes , the degree of knowledge possessed by the pagan world . The following is the judg- ment ...
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Page 299 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
Page 236 - I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives, to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.
Page 243 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Page 246 - 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.
Page 170 - Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model: or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept, or nature to be...
Page 136 - Invest me in my motley ; give me leave To speak my mind, and I will through and through Cleanse the foul body of the infected world, If they will patiently receive my medicine.
Page 146 - To whom the good man replied, "My dear George, if Saints have usually a double share in the miseries of this life, I, that am none, ought not to repine at what my wise Creator hath appointed for me: but labour — as indeed -I do daily — to submit mine to his will, and possess my soul in patience and peace.
Page 125 - You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!
Page 216 - Though mark'd by none but quick, poetic eyes : (So Rome's great founder to the heavens withdrew, To Proculus alone confess'd in view :) A sudden star, it shot through liquid air, And drew behind a radiant trail of hair.
Page 193 - Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.