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... writings . This peculiarity of the book has not ' been allowed to disturb the orderly presentation of a general outline of the history of our literature . Following Mr. Shaw's plan , I have refrained from dis- cussing the lives and ...
... writings . This peculiarity of the book has not ' been allowed to disturb the orderly presentation of a general outline of the history of our literature . Following Mr. Shaw's plan , I have refrained from dis- cussing the lives and ...
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... writing such elaborate prefaces , that the new matter introduced by way of comment or illustration , entitles him to be called an original author . His writings are pronounced 66 the purest specimens of Anglo - Saxon prose . " It is ...
... writing such elaborate prefaces , that the new matter introduced by way of comment or illustration , entitles him to be called an original author . His writings are pronounced 66 the purest specimens of Anglo - Saxon prose . " It is ...
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... writings form almost an encyclopædia of the knowledge of his day . " But it is by one work that he has made the English nation a lasting debtor to his fame ; for his Ecclesiastical History of the English was a his- tory of England , and ...
... writings form almost an encyclopædia of the knowledge of his day . " But it is by one work that he has made the English nation a lasting debtor to his fame ; for his Ecclesiastical History of the English was a his- tory of England , and ...
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... writings which will form the subject of this chapter is almost exclusively philological and historical . Their literary merits are small ; but they supply the means of tracing the course of the language through its many varying forms ...
... writings which will form the subject of this chapter is almost exclusively philological and historical . Their literary merits are small ; but they supply the means of tracing the course of the language through its many varying forms ...
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... Writings in English do not represent the entire intellectual wealth of the nation during this Anglo - Norman period ... writing ; but they were contributors to a foreign , not to their national litera- ture . That national literature has ...
... Writings in English do not represent the entire intellectual wealth of the nation during this Anglo - Norman period ... writing ; but they were contributors to a foreign , not to their national litera- ture . That national literature has ...
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الصفحة 151 - It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time, be so little read. As compositions, they deserve the attention of every man who wishes to become acquainted with the full power of the English language. They abound with passages compared with which the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance. They are a perfect field of cloth of gold. The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the
الصفحة 142 - 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.
الصفحة 142 - Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
الصفحة 282 - This kind of life — the cheerless gloom of A hermit, with the unceasing moil of a galleyslave, brought me to my sixteenth year ; a little before which period I first committed the sin of Rhyme. You know our country custom of coupling a man and woman together as partners in the labours of harvest.
الصفحة 215 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel, by divine command, With rising tempests shakes a guilty land (Such as of late o'er pale Britannia passed), Calm and serene he drives the furious blast; And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
الصفحة 252 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
الصفحة 165 - Whose humorous vein, strong sense, and simple style, May teach the gayest, make the gravest smile, Witty, and well employed, and like thy Lord Speaking in parables his slighted word...
الصفحة 202 - Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense: Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar.
الصفحة 202 - In search of wit, these lose their common sense, And then turn critics in their own defence: Each burns alike, who can, or cannot write, 30 Or with a rival's, or an eunuch's spite.
الصفحة 283 - It needs no effort of imagination,' says he, 'to conceive what the sensations of an isolated set of scholars (almost all either clergymen or professors) must have been in the presence of this big-boned, blackbrowed, brawny stranger, with his great flashing eyes, who, having forced his way among them from the plough-tail at a single stride, manifested in the whole strain of his bearing and conversation a most thorough conviction, that in the society of the most eminent men of his nation he was exactly...