English Literature in the Eighteenth CenturyHarper & Brothers, 1883 - 450 páginas |
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... étoit Stace , et , apres lui , Sénèque le Tra- gique . " - Racan , " Vie de Malherbe . " † Vide Renan , " Mélanges d'Histoire et de Voyages , " p . 209 et seq . fect appeared later , but it came , if anything 12 English Literature .
... étoit Stace , et , apres lui , Sénèque le Tra- gique . " - Racan , " Vie de Malherbe . " † Vide Renan , " Mélanges d'Histoire et de Voyages , " p . 209 et seq . fect appeared later , but it came , if anything 12 English Literature .
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... " Je veux lire en trois jours l'Iliade d'Homère , Et pour ce , Corydon , ferme bien l'huis sur moi . " † Vide Sainte - Beuve , " Causeries du Lundi , " xii . 78 et seq . that each gave him . Would he not in every English Literature . 15.
... " Je veux lire en trois jours l'Iliade d'Homère , Et pour ce , Corydon , ferme bien l'huis sur moi . " † Vide Sainte - Beuve , " Causeries du Lundi , " xii . 78 et seq . that each gave him . Would he not in every English Literature . 15.
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... vide infra ) , in a talk with the librarian of Har- vard College , said , " Nor must I omit amongst these great names [ Tillot- son , Jeremy Taylor , Baxter , Mrs. Katharine Phillips , Mrs. Behn - for Dun- ton's taste was catholic - and ...
... vide infra ) , in a talk with the librarian of Har- vard College , said , " Nor must I omit amongst these great names [ Tillot- son , Jeremy Taylor , Baxter , Mrs. Katharine Phillips , Mrs. Behn - for Dun- ton's taste was catholic - and ...
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... Vide Johnson's " Life of J. Philips . " † Yet when shall we find anything new ? Joseph Hall says in his " Sat- ires " ( 1598 ) : " Should Bandel's throstle die without a song ? Or Adamantius , my dog , be laid along , Down in some ditch ...
... Vide Johnson's " Life of J. Philips . " † Yet when shall we find anything new ? Joseph Hall says in his " Sat- ires " ( 1598 ) : " Should Bandel's throstle die without a song ? Or Adamantius , my dog , be laid along , Down in some ditch ...
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... blank verse , doubtless written in imitation of that of the Italians , Felice Felignei , and Trissino , whose " Italia Liberata " ( vide infra ) appeared in 1548 . one , but the whole number of books published then English Literature . 39.
... blank verse , doubtless written in imitation of that of the Italians , Felice Felignei , and Trissino , whose " Italia Liberata " ( vide infra ) appeared in 1548 . one , but the whole number of books published then English Literature . 39.
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Página 52 - With public zeal to cancel private crimes. How safe is treason and how sacred ill, Where none can sin against the people's will, "Where crowds can wink and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own ! Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge.
Página 52 - He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
Página 243 - A brighter wash; to curl their waving hairs, Assist their blushes, and inspire their airs; Nay oft, in dreams, invention we bestow, To change a flounce, or add a furbelow.
Página 103 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Página 53 - In the first rank of these did Zimri stand ;* 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 chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Página 429 - Ah little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround; They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste; Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.
Página 106 - ... tis all a cheat ; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit ; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay : To-morrow's falser than the former day ; Lies worse, and, while it says, we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
Página 239 - Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Página 161 - It was said of Socrates that he brought Philosophy down from, heaven, to inhabit among men ; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of closets and libraries, schools and colleges, to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea-tables and in coffeehouses.
Página 387 - In our little journey up to the Grande Chartreuse, I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an exclamation, that there was no restraining. Not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry.