A History of Eighteenth Century Literature (1600-1780).Macmillan and Company, 1889 - 415 من الصفحات |
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... period would be to narrow it most unduly ; to call it the classical period would be to introduce a series of ideas incon- gruous as well as inexact . No newly discovered nick- name would please all readers at this time of day , and we ...
... period would be to narrow it most unduly ; to call it the classical period would be to introduce a series of ideas incon- gruous as well as inexact . No newly discovered nick- name would please all readers at this time of day , and we ...
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... period should be examined . But I may explain here that it has been my object , while giving a rough sketch of the tenets of each didactic specialist , to leave the discussion of those tenets to critics of the specialist's own ...
... period should be examined . But I may explain here that it has been my object , while giving a rough sketch of the tenets of each didactic specialist , to leave the discussion of those tenets to critics of the specialist's own ...
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... period . The great poets had spoken in rapturous accents , with a noble and irregular music , and their followers , unable to repeat their sublimity , had exaggerated their irregularity into licence . This rapid decline from the ...
... period . The great poets had spoken in rapturous accents , with a noble and irregular music , and their followers , unable to repeat their sublimity , had exaggerated their irregularity into licence . This rapid decline from the ...
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... period in this country . This alteration of form was introduced by one writer , who lived to see it universally adopted . The life of this poet , Edmund Waller ( 1605-1687 ) , covers the entire period of transformation . When he was a ...
... period in this country . This alteration of form was introduced by one writer , who lived to see it universally adopted . The life of this poet , Edmund Waller ( 1605-1687 ) , covers the entire period of transformation . When he was a ...
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... period , the greatest poet in English literature between Milton and Wordsworth , was John Dryden ( 1631-1700 ) . In comparison with this stately figure , those pre- cursors of the classical school whom we have just mentioned pass into ...
... period , the greatest poet in English literature between Milton and Wordsworth , was John Dryden ( 1631-1700 ) . In comparison with this stately figure , those pre- cursors of the classical school whom we have just mentioned pass into ...
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الصفحة 233 - How sleep the Brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there!
الصفحة 125 - Thy hand, great Anarch ! lets the curtain fall ; And universal Darkness buries All.
الصفحة 229 - Live while you live, the Epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live while you live, the sacred Preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies.
الصفحة 290 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
الصفحة 294 - The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by: His frame was firm — his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. Then with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
الصفحة 340 - Sae true his heart, sae smooth his speech, His breath like caller air ; His very foot has music in't • As he comes up the stair, — And will I see his face again? And will I hear him speak ? I'm downright dizzy wi...
الصفحة 121 - And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast : There shall the morn her earliest tears bestow, There the first roses of the year shall blow ; While angels with their silver wings o'ershade The ground, now sacred by thy reliques made.
الصفحة 60 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
الصفحة 231 - Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome— at an inn.
الصفحة 322 - Those poets who owe their best fame to his skill Shall still be his flatterers, go where he will; Old Shakespeare receive him with praise and with love, And Beaumonts and Bens be his Kellys above.