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... period which followed the first French Revolution , and which suspended the independent political existence of so many of the minor European States , at the same time threat- ening all with ultimate absorption , naturally stimulated the ...
... period which followed the first French Revolution , and which suspended the independent political existence of so many of the minor European States , at the same time threat- ening all with ultimate absorption , naturally stimulated the ...
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... period , is exceedingly small , and I doubt whether it would be possible to cite a single instance where this has been attempted , without grievous error , while , in most cases , the book has been not merely lessened in value , but ...
... period , is exceedingly small , and I doubt whether it would be possible to cite a single instance where this has been attempted , without grievous error , while , in most cases , the book has been not merely lessened in value , but ...
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... period , with the single exception of Dante , can , for a moment , be compared with Chaucer , who , only less than Shakespeare , deserves the epithet , myriad - minded , so happily applied by Coleridge to the great dramatist . He is ...
... period , with the single exception of Dante , can , for a moment , be compared with Chaucer , who , only less than Shakespeare , deserves the epithet , myriad - minded , so happily applied by Coleridge to the great dramatist . He is ...
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... period will ever arrive , when our many - sided humanity will content itself with a single tongue . In the incessant change which all language necessarily undergoes , English itself will have ceased to exist , in a form identifia- ble ...
... period will ever arrive , when our many - sided humanity will content itself with a single tongue . In the incessant change which all language necessarily undergoes , English itself will have ceased to exist , in a form identifia- ble ...
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George Perkins Marsh. • a period when English shall have vanquished a d superseded the Chinese and the Tartar dialects , the many tongues of polyglot India , the yet surviving Semitic speeches , in their wide diffusion , and the numerous ...
George Perkins Marsh. • a period when English shall have vanquished a d superseded the Chinese and the Tartar dialects , the many tongues of polyglot India , the yet surviving Semitic speeches , in their wide diffusion , and the numerous ...
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الصفحة 356 - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse...
الصفحة 164 - But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.
الصفحة 71 - In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, Where most may wonder at the workmanship. It is for homely features to keep home; They had their name thence...
الصفحة 161 - When we were taken up stairs," says he in one of his letters, " a dirty fellow bounced out of the bed on which one of us was to lie." This incident is recorded in the Journey as follows : " Out of one of the beds on which we were to repose started up, at our entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from the forge.
الصفحة 66 - Come, pensive Nun, devout and pure, Sober, steadfast, and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing with majestic train, And sable stole of cypress lawn Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come; but keep thy wonted state, With even step, and musing gait, And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes...
الصفحة 511 - THE measure is English heroic verse without rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin, — rime being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse, in longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre...
الصفحة 629 - Truly, good Christian Reader, we never thought from the beginning that we should need to make a new translation, nor yet to make of a bad one a good one...
الصفحة 130 - In one corner was a stagnant pool of water, surrounding an island of muck; there were several half-drowned fowls crowded together under a cart, among which was a miserable, crest-fallen cock, drenched out of all life and spirit, his drooping tail matted, as it were, into a single feather, along which the water trickled from his back...
الصفحة 333 - AN EPITAPH ON THE ADMIRABLE DRAMATIC POET W. SHAKESPEARE. WHAT needs my Shakespeare for his honour'd bones The labour of an age in piled stones ? Or that his hallow'd reliques should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid...
الصفحة 164 - When you are an anvil, hold you still ; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.