Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books: With Introductions and NotesWilliam Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, Francis Bacon, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, Isaac Newton, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman P.F. Collier & Son, 1910 - 437 من الصفحات |
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... expressing of any particular purposes or by accidents therein occasioned . The generall end therefore of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline : which for that I conceived shoulde be ...
... expressing of any particular purposes or by accidents therein occasioned . The generall end therefore of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline : which for that I conceived shoulde be ...
الصفحة 156
... expression , or a thought too wanton , they are crept into my verses thro ' my inadvertency ; if the searchers find any in the cargo , let them be stav'd or forfeited , like counterbanded goods ; at least , let their authors be ...
... expression , or a thought too wanton , they are crept into my verses thro ' my inadvertency ; if the searchers find any in the cargo , let them be stav'd or forfeited , like counterbanded goods ; at least , let their authors be ...
الصفحة 157
... expressions , which his language , and the age in which he liv'd , allow'd him . Homer's invention was more copious , Virgil's more confin'd ; so that if Homer had not led the way , it was not in Virgil to have begun heroic poetry ; for ...
... expressions , which his language , and the age in which he liv'd , allow'd him . Homer's invention was more copious , Virgil's more confin'd ; so that if Homer had not led the way , it was not in Virgil to have begun heroic poetry ; for ...
الصفحة 158
... expression , the Roman poet is at least equal to the Grecian , as I have said elsewhere ; supplying the poverty of his language by his musical ear , and by his diligence . But to return : our two great poets , being so different in ...
... expression , the Roman poet is at least equal to the Grecian , as I have said elsewhere ; supplying the poverty of his language by his musical ear , and by his diligence . But to return : our two great poets , being so different in ...
الصفحة 161
... expressions , pour'd on the neck of one another , and signifying all the same thing ? If this were wit , was this a time to be witty , when the poor wretch was in the agony of death ? This is just John Littlewit in Bartholomew Fair ...
... expressions , pour'd on the neck of one another , and signifying all the same thing ? If this were wit , was this a time to be witty , when the poor wretch was in the agony of death ? This is just John Littlewit in Bartholomew Fair ...
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الصفحة 42 - Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet.
الصفحة 272 - For all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: and though this be true, Poems to which any value can be attached were never produced on any variety of subjects but by a man who, being possessed of more than usual organic sensibility, had also thought long and deeply.
الصفحة 206 - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment...
الصفحة 166 - But enough of this : there is such a variety of game springing up before me, that I am distracted in my choice, and know not which to follow. Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.
الصفحة 307 - She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
الصفحة 210 - Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest ; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth.
الصفحة 165 - He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive nature, because, as it has been truly observed of him, he has taken into the compass of his " Canterbury Tales" the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation, in his age.
الصفحة 212 - Shakespeare approximates the remote, and familiarizes the wonderful ; the event which he represents will not happen, but if it were possible, its effects would probably be such as he has assigned...
الصفحة 174 - I shall say the less of Mr Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
الصفحة 62 - I chose the historye of King Arthure, as most fitte for the excellency of his person, being made famous by many mens former workes, and also furthest from the daunger of envy, and suspition of present time.