English Literature in the Eighteenth CenturyHarper & Brothers, 1883 - 450 páginas |
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Página viii
... is as much governed by law as the other , is equally the result of antecedent causes . To ask noth- ing but heroics of literature would be like demanding nothing but the expression of devotion in painting . May viii Preface .
... is as much governed by law as the other , is equally the result of antecedent causes . To ask noth- ing but heroics of literature would be like demanding nothing but the expression of devotion in painting . May viii Preface .
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Thomas Sergeant Perry. nothing but the expression of devotion in painting . May we not hope that the present interest in reality and distrust of literary conventions may in time help the production of masterpieces ? George Eliot's novels ...
Thomas Sergeant Perry. nothing but the expression of devotion in painting . May we not hope that the present interest in reality and distrust of literary conventions may in time help the production of masterpieces ? George Eliot's novels ...
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... expression of national feeling . With the rise of Puri- tanism English life was severed into two distinct branches . One clung to literature , the other to religion , and it is per- haps only in our own days that the two currents are ...
... expression of national feeling . With the rise of Puri- tanism English life was severed into two distinct branches . One clung to literature , the other to religion , and it is per- haps only in our own days that the two currents are ...
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... expression a form that grows from the soil . We shall see later how the revival of the natural forces in English and French , and their appearance in German literature , coincided with renewed study of the Greek . This digression ...
... expression a form that grows from the soil . We shall see later how the revival of the natural forces in English and French , and their appearance in German literature , coincided with renewed study of the Greek . This digression ...
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... expression , but useful to those who know their value ; and such as , when they are expanded to perspicuity and polished to elegance , may give lustre to works which have more propriety , though less copiousness , of sentiment . " Donne ...
... expression , but useful to those who know their value ; and such as , when they are expanded to perspicuity and polished to elegance , may give lustre to works which have more propriety , though less copiousness , of sentiment . " Donne ...
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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.