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Essays and Studies: Being Volume ... of the New Series of Essays and Studies ... English Association Vista de fragmentos - 1951 |
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ancient attempt ballads better Book Britain British Brutus called century Child Christ Clergy comes common consciousness consider continued criticism Dante difficult Do-well doubt English Essay example expressed fact feel follows four French Geoffrey give given grammar hand Hardy historians Hudson human ideas Imaginative interest Italy Jesus John Joseph kind King language Latin learning leave less literature live look Lord Macaulay Mary matter means mind Mother native nature never original pardon passage perhaps play poem poet poetry Pope present question quoted readers Reason reference relation Roman saved says seems sense Shaw shows stand story Sweet tell term thet things thou thought told tradition translation Trojan true turn understand verse Warton whole writer
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Página 69 - Of Truth, of Grandeur, Beauty, Love, and Hope, And melancholy Fear subdued by Faith; Of blessed consolations in distress; Of moral strength, and intellectual Power; Of joy in widest commonalty spread...
Página 140 - Twould blow like this through holt and hanger When Uricon the city stood: Tis the old wind in the old anger, But then it threshed another wood.
Página 72 - Joseph was an old man, And an old man was he, When he wedded Mary In the land of Galilee.
Página 126 - O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Página 15 - Brutus ! there lies beyond the Gallic bounds An island which the western sea surrounds, By giants once possessed; now few remain To bar thy entrance, or obstruct thy reign. To reach that happy shore thy sails employ; There fate decrees to raise a second Troy, And found an empire in thy royal line, Which time shall ne'er destroy, nor bounds confine.
Página 73 - O then bespoke the Babe Within his Mother's womb: Bow down then the tallest tree For my Mother to have some.
Página 101 - It ought to be the first endeavour of a writer to distinguish nature from custom ; or that which is established because it is right, from that which is right only because it is established ; that he may neither violate essential principles by a desire of novelty, nor debar himself from the attainment of beauties within his view, by a needless fear of breaking rules which no literary dictator had authority to enact N° 157.
Página 113 - He that treats of fashionable follies, and the topics of the day, that describes present persons and recent events, finds many readers, whose understandings and whose passions he gratifies.
Página 25 - ... incredulity. For these, and those causes above mentioned, that which hath received approbation from so many, I have chosen not to omit. Certain or uncertain, be that upon the credit of those whom I must follow ; so far as keeps aloof from impossible and absurd, attested by ancient writers from books more ancient, I refuse not, as the due and proper subject of story.
Página 92 - Then he laid his head on his right shoulder, Seeing death it struck him nigh, — " The Holy Ghost be with your soul, I die, mother dear, I die.