The Masterpieces and the History of Literature: Analysis, Criticism, Character and Incident, المجلد 8Julian Hawthorne Hamilton Book Company, 1902 |
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... became a dreary desert , slightly relieved by a few oases of little produc- tiveness . The country was devastated with war and bloodshed ; the princes , careless of letters , were competing for absolute power ; the people , harassed and ...
... became a dreary desert , slightly relieved by a few oases of little produc- tiveness . The country was devastated with war and bloodshed ; the princes , careless of letters , were competing for absolute power ; the people , harassed and ...
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... became librarian at Wolfenbüttel , and among other work discussed in his " Laokoön " the theory of ancient art . In this he freely criticized the ideas of J. J. Winckelmann ( 1717-1768 ) , who had sacrificed his life to the study of ...
... became librarian at Wolfenbüttel , and among other work discussed in his " Laokoön " the theory of ancient art . In this he freely criticized the ideas of J. J. Winckelmann ( 1717-1768 ) , who had sacrificed his life to the study of ...
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... became well acquainted with English literature . His character is readily seen in his poem on " The Merry Soap - boiler . " He died in 1754 . THE MERRY SOAP - BOILER . A STEADY and a skillful toiler , John got his bread as a soap ...
... became well acquainted with English literature . His character is readily seen in his poem on " The Merry Soap - boiler . " He died in 1754 . THE MERRY SOAP - BOILER . A STEADY and a skillful toiler , John got his bread as a soap ...
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... became the prophet of that invisible republic which now for nearly a century and a half has been the ideal counterpart in German life of a stern mon- archical reality . " As this same critic has remarked , " Not Milton , but the great ...
... became the prophet of that invisible republic which now for nearly a century and a half has been the ideal counterpart in German life of a stern mon- archical reality . " As this same critic has remarked , " Not Milton , but the great ...
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... became Agamemnon , as father , manifests itself in distortions , which are always ugly . He carried the expression of grief only so far as beauty and dignity could be combined with it . What was ugly he would fain have passed over , or ...
... became Agamemnon , as father , manifests itself in distortions , which are always ugly . He carried the expression of grief only so far as beauty and dignity could be combined with it . What was ugly he would fain have passed over , or ...
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الصفحة 321 - BREATHES there the man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand...
الصفحة 274 - THOU ling'ring star, with less'ning ray, That lov'st to greet the early morn, Again thou usher'st in the day My Mary from my soul was torn. O, Mary ! dear departed shade ! Where is thy place of blissful rest ? Seest thou thy lover lowly laid? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast?
الصفحة 310 - John he cried, But John he cried in vain, That trot became a gallop soon In spite of curb and rein. So stooping down, as needs he must Who cannot sit upright, He grasp'd the mane with both his hands, And eke with all his might.
الصفحة 312 - Toll for the brave ! Brave Kempenfelt is gone ; His last sea-fight is fought ; His work of glory done. It was not in the battle ; No tempest gave the shock ; She sprang no fatal leak ; She ran upon no rock.
الصفحة 323 - I tell thee, thou'rt defied ! And if thou said'st I am not peer To any lord in Scotland here, Lowland or Highland, far or near, Lord Angus, thou hast lied...
الصفحة 274 - I forget the hallowed grove, Where by the winding Ayr we met, To live one day of parting love ! Eternity will not efface Those records dear of transports past ; Thy image at our last embrace ; Ah ! little thought we 'twas our last ! Ayr gurgling kissed his pebbled shore, O'erhung with wild woods, thickening, green ; The fragrant birch, and hawthorn hoar, Twined amorous round the raptured scene.
الصفحة 272 - They chant their artless notes in simple guise; They tune their hearts, by far the noblest aim : Perhaps ' Dundee's ' wild warbling measures rise, Or plaintive *• Martyrs...
الصفحة 313 - Atlantic billows roar'd, When such a destined wretch as I, Wash'd headlong from on board, Of friends, of hope, of all bereft, His floating home for ever left. No braver chief could Albion boast Than he with whom he went, Nor ever ship left Albion's coast With warmer wishes sent.
الصفحة 261 - O whare will I get a skeely skipper To sail this new ship of mine ? " O up and spake an eldern knight, Sat at the king's right knee — " Sir Patrick Spens is the best sailor That ever sailed the sea.
الصفحة 311 - Well done ! As loud as he could bawl. Away went Gilpin — who but he ? His fame soon spread around, He carries weight ! he rides a race ! Tis for a thousand pound...