Among My BooksFields, Osgood, & Company, 1898 - 380 من الصفحات This collection of writings by James Russell Lowell includes a critical analysis of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's philosophical ideas with respect to numerous other authors' criticisms. |
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... sure , but really elegant , and , on the whole , better than those in which Dryden squeezed out melodious tears . Waller , who had also made himself conspicuous as a volunteer Antony to the country squire turned Cæsar , ( " With ermine ...
... sure , but really elegant , and , on the whole , better than those in which Dryden squeezed out melodious tears . Waller , who had also made himself conspicuous as a volunteer Antony to the country squire turned Cæsar , ( " With ermine ...
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... sure , is no plagiarism ; but it should be carried to Dryden's credit that we catch the poets of the next half - century oftener with their hands in his pockets than in those of any one else . ↑ Essay on Satire . ‡ Ibid . way , but ...
... sure , is no plagiarism ; but it should be carried to Dryden's credit that we catch the poets of the next half - century oftener with their hands in his pockets than in those of any one else . ↑ Essay on Satire . ‡ Ibid . way , but ...
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... sure to come suddenly down with a bump . His odes , indeed , are an alternation of upward jerks and concussions , and smack more of Chapelain than of the Theban , but his prose is very agreeable , - Montaigne and water , perhaps , but ...
... sure to come suddenly down with a bump . His odes , indeed , are an alternation of upward jerks and concussions , and smack more of Chapelain than of the Theban , but his prose is very agreeable , - Montaigne and water , perhaps , but ...
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... Sure ' t is the end of all things ! Fate has torn The lock of Time off , and his head is now The ghastly ball of round Eternity ! But the next , in which the soul is likened to the pocket of an indignant housemaid charged with theft ...
... Sure ' t is the end of all things ! Fate has torn The lock of Time off , and his head is now The ghastly ball of round Eternity ! But the next , in which the soul is likened to the pocket of an indignant housemaid charged with theft ...
الصفحة 39
... sure to take him on the strongest side , and where he is least liable to exceptions . " This is true also of one who wishes to measure an author fairly , for the higher wisdom of criticism lies in the capacity to admire . Leser , wie ...
... sure to take him on the strongest side , and where he is least liable to exceptions . " This is true also of one who wishes to measure an author fairly , for the higher wisdom of criticism lies in the capacity to admire . Leser , wie ...
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الصفحة 214 - If to do were as easy as to know what were^ good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
الصفحة 187 - This castle hath a pleasant seat ; the air Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself Unto our gentle senses. BAN. This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
الصفحة 240 - It is therefore ordered, That every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read...
الصفحة 324 - In bigness to surpass Earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless...
الصفحة 264 - O good old man ; how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed...
الصفحة 11 - Like rose-buds, stuck i' th' lily-skin about. Each little pimple had a tear in it, To wail the fault its rising did commit : eo Which, rebel-like, with its own lord at strife, Thus made an insurrection 'gainst his life. Or were these gems sent to adorn his skin, The cabinet of a richer soul within ? No comet need foretell his change drew on, Whose corpse might seem a constellation.
الصفحة 4 - Till, like the certain wands of Jacob's wit, Their verses tallied. Easy was the task : A thousand handicraftsmen wore the mask Of Poesy. Ill-fated, impious race ! That blasphemed the bright Lyrist to his face, And did not know it, — no, they went about, Holding a poor, decrepit standard out, Marked with most flimsy mottoes, and in large The name of one Boileau...
الصفحة 356 - Talent is that which is in a man's power ; genius is that in whose power a man is.
الصفحة 213 - Thus conscience does make cowards of us all, And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pitch and moment With this regard their currents turn awry And lose the name of action.
الصفحة 10 - Oxford to him a dearer name shall be, Than his own mother university. Thebes did his green, unknowing youth engage; He chooses Athens in his riper age.