A History of Eighteenth Century Literature (1600-1780).Macmillan and Company, 1889 - 415 من الصفحات |
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... taste of the reader will decide whether , in the main , the proportions are correctly de- signed . But those who have made special fragments of the century , or special figures in it , their main study , will recollect , if they glance ...
... taste of the reader will decide whether , in the main , the proportions are correctly de- signed . But those who have made special fragments of the century , or special figures in it , their main study , will recollect , if they glance ...
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... taste . Where my judgment has differed on important questions from that of preceding critics , I have been slow to suppose that I could be right and they wrong . But it was absolutely essential that such an outline of literary history ...
... taste . Where my judgment has differed on important questions from that of preceding critics , I have been slow to suppose that I could be right and they wrong . But it was absolutely essential that such an outline of literary history ...
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... was unchallenged . The precise and regular taste made fashionable by Waller found a special propriety in resuming a vehicle of expression which had I WALLER 3 been , it would seem , invented 2 CHAP . · POETRY AFTER THE RESTORATION.
... was unchallenged . The precise and regular taste made fashionable by Waller found a special propriety in resuming a vehicle of expression which had I WALLER 3 been , it would seem , invented 2 CHAP . · POETRY AFTER THE RESTORATION.
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... taste , to bring his superlative gifts to the task of making that taste or form as classical and splendid as possible . Hence , when , at the age of fifty , he suddenly achieved the highest distinction in a field new to him , the field ...
... taste , to bring his superlative gifts to the task of making that taste or form as classical and splendid as possible . Hence , when , at the age of fifty , he suddenly achieved the highest distinction in a field new to him , the field ...
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... taste the exquisite intellectual pleasure which is offered us by Dryden's wit and sparkling malignity . He returned to the attack a month later in that section of the second Absalom and Achitophel which is certainly his , and which ...
... taste the exquisite intellectual pleasure which is offered us by Dryden's wit and sparkling malignity . He returned to the attack a month later in that section of the second Absalom and Achitophel which is certainly his , and which ...
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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.