English Literature in the Eighteenth CenturyHarper & Brothers, 1883 - 450 páginas |
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... kind word for every man who has any claim to greatness . Of one thing we may be sure , that this uni- versal taste accompanies meagre performance in the way of creation . Now , for instance , when the English drama is entirely a thing ...
... kind word for every man who has any claim to greatness . Of one thing we may be sure , that this uni- versal taste accompanies meagre performance in the way of creation . Now , for instance , when the English drama is entirely a thing ...
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... kind of men , and fit for such melancholy , Rhasis holds , as are idle , and have extravagant , impertinent thoughts , or troubled with cares , nothing better to distract their mind , and alter their medi- tations invented ( some say ) ...
... kind of men , and fit for such melancholy , Rhasis holds , as are idle , and have extravagant , impertinent thoughts , or troubled with cares , nothing better to distract their mind , and alter their medi- tations invented ( some say ) ...
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... kind and low . " And these descriptions of the opening day : " As day new opening fills the hemisphere , And all at once ; so quickly every street Does by an instant opening full appear , When from their dwellings busy dwellers meet ...
... kind and low . " And these descriptions of the opening day : " As day new opening fills the hemisphere , And all at once ; so quickly every street Does by an instant opening full appear , When from their dwellings busy dwellers meet ...
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... kind . And pray for me that ( since my hap is such To see men so ) I may perceive myself . O worthy words to end my worthless verse , Pray for me , priests , I pray you pray for me . " But these pensive lines are very different from the ...
... kind . And pray for me that ( since my hap is such To see men so ) I may perceive myself . O worthy words to end my worthless verse , Pray for me , priests , I pray you pray for me . " But these pensive lines are very different from the ...
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... kind the reader comes in for half of the performance , everything appears to him like a discovery of his own . . . . For this reason the " Absalom and Achitophel " was one of the most popular poems that ever appeared in English . " Then ...
... kind the reader comes in for half of the performance , everything appears to him like a discovery of his own . . . . For this reason the " Absalom and Achitophel " was one of the most popular poems that ever appeared in English . " Then ...
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Página 137 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel, by divine command, With rising tempests shakes a guilty land (Such as of late o'er pale Britannia passed), Calm and serene he drives the furious blast ; And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform. Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
Página 52 - He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
Página 249 - 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 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 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 245 - Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Página 389 - 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.
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 53 - Blest madman! who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy. Railing and praising were his usual themes; And both, to show his judgment, in extremes; So over violent, or over civil, That every man with him was god or devil.
Página 23 - That hath a mint of phrases in his brain : One, whom the music of his own vain tongue Doth ravish, like enchanting harmony...