English Literature in the Eighteenth CenturyHarper & Brothers, 1883 - 450 páginas |
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... sort of excuse for choosing this as a starting - point that with these writers what we feel to be modern literature begins . Of course , this is not a scientific division . By no stretch of language can Shakspere or Ben Jonson be ...
... sort of excuse for choosing this as a starting - point that with these writers what we feel to be modern literature begins . Of course , this is not a scientific division . By no stretch of language can Shakspere or Ben Jonson be ...
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... sort of primal fire and energy which make them seem re- mote from our cooler , critical days . They appeared even more remote to our ancestors at the time of Queen Anne . Then the pride of national life had faded into political rancor ...
... sort of primal fire and energy which make them seem re- mote from our cooler , critical days . They appeared even more remote to our ancestors at the time of Queen Anne . Then the pride of national life had faded into political rancor ...
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... sort of parody of the real- ly grand style . Even in Ben Jonson we see the contrast of artistic workmanship ; and his cool precision found many admirers and imitators . Then , too , with the complications of politics and the fervor of ...
... sort of parody of the real- ly grand style . Even in Ben Jonson we see the contrast of artistic workmanship ; and his cool precision found many admirers and imitators . Then , too , with the complications of politics and the fervor of ...
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... sort of praise on Vergil , and had no good words for Homer . With what judgment he did this may be gathered from the way in which he went astray in some of his comments . In the sixth book of the " Æneid , " 667 , Vergil placed a ...
... sort of praise on Vergil , and had no good words for Homer . With what judgment he did this may be gathered from the way in which he went astray in some of his comments . In the sixth book of the " Æneid , " 667 , Vergil placed a ...
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... sort of compromise : to take the former country alone , Shakspere stands at the junction of two great streams which may represent respectively the Middle Ages and classical antiquity . In France the wars of the League interrupted the ...
... sort of compromise : to take the former country alone , Shakspere stands at the junction of two great streams which may represent respectively the Middle Ages and classical antiquity . In France the wars of the League interrupted the ...
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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...