A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors: Living and Deceased from the Earliest Accounts to the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century, المجلد 1J. P. Lippincott, 1899 - 3140 من الصفحات |
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... language of this people we know but little : " Though the Britains or Welch were the first possessors of this island whose names are recorded , and are therefore in civil history always considered as the predecessors of the present ...
... language of this people we know but little : " Though the Britains or Welch were the first possessors of this island whose names are recorded , and are therefore in civil history always considered as the predecessors of the present ...
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... language , and so gained , from time to time , som knowledge and elegance , till in three centuries they had formed a language capable of ex- pressing all the sentiments of a civilized people , as appears by King Alfred's paraphrase in ...
... language , and so gained , from time to time , som knowledge and elegance , till in three centuries they had formed a language capable of ex- pressing all the sentiments of a civilized people , as appears by King Alfred's paraphrase in ...
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... language first makes its appearance in poems of a religious and serious character ; and it seems to have first found a distinguished patron in Adelaide of Louvaine , queen of Henry I. . . . . Most of this religious and serious poetry ...
... language first makes its appearance in poems of a religious and serious character ; and it seems to have first found a distinguished patron in Adelaide of Louvaine , queen of Henry I. . . . . Most of this religious and serious poetry ...
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... language is all good , but is not strictly the poetical language ; and we should think that he had not been a wide and constant reader of the old English poets . . . . We would advise our readers to make themselves acquainted with it ...
... language is all good , but is not strictly the poetical language ; and we should think that he had not been a wide and constant reader of the old English poets . . . . We would advise our readers to make themselves acquainted with it ...
الصفحة 72
... language , Ascham opposed the method introduced by Sir Thomas Smith and Sir John Cheke , but afterwards espoused their opinion and practice . " It is probable that it is in part owing to the ingenuity with which he defended it , ( see ...
... language , Ascham opposed the method introduced by Sir Thomas Smith and Sir John Cheke , but afterwards espoused their opinion and practice . " It is probable that it is in part owing to the ingenuity with which he defended it , ( see ...
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الصفحة 176 - There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great Inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts, Not such as Europe breeds In her decay, Such as she bred when fresh and young, When heavenly flame did animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes Its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day: Time's noblest offspring is the last" In 1728 he married Anne, the eldest daughter...
الصفحة 38 - 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.
الصفحة 245 - Chemistry, Meteorology, and the Function of Digestion, considered with reference to Natural Theology.
الصفحة 72 - I must do it, as it were in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly as God made the world, or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea, presently, sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways which I will not name for the honour I bear them, so without measure misordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr.
الصفحة 89 - No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of [his] own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
الصفحة 226 - The Family Shakspeare ; in which nothing is added to the Original Text ; but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud.
الصفحة 15 - And yet. on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
الصفحة 245 - ON THE POWER WISDOM AND GOODNESS OF GOD AS MANIFESTED IN THE ADAPTATION OF EXTERNAL, NATURE TO THE MORAL AND INTELLECTUAL CONSTITUTION OF MAN.
الصفحة 14 - LIBRARY. What a world of wit is here packed up together ! I know not whether this sight doth more dismay or comfort me ; it dismays me to think that here is so much that I cannot know ; it comforts me to think that this variety yields so good helps to know what I should. There is no truer word than that of Solomon — there is no end of making many books...
الصفحة 96 - ... innumerable sins, I confess before thee, that I am debtor to thee for the gracious talent of thy gifts and graces, which I have neither put into a napkin, nor put it, as I ought, to exchangers, where it might have made best profit, but misspent it in things for which I was least fit : so I may truly say, my soul hath been a stranger in the course of my pilgrimage. Be merciful unto me, O Lord, for my Saviour's sake, and receive me into thy bosom, or guide me in thy ways.