History of English Literature, Volume 2Holt & Williams, 1871 |
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... phrases , which are ill- sounding or improper ; or in admitting new , which are more proper , more sounding , and more significant . " . Let any man , who understands English , read diligently the works of Shakespeare and Fletcher , and ...
... phrases , which are ill- sounding or improper ; or in admitting new , which are more proper , more sounding , and more significant . " . Let any man , who understands English , read diligently the works of Shakespeare and Fletcher , and ...
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... phrases . Such is this tragedy , which is called French - like ; and most of the others are like it . In Secret Love , in Marriage à la Mode , in Aureng - Zebe , in the Indian Emperor , and especially in the Conquest of Granada ...
... phrases . Such is this tragedy , which is called French - like ; and most of the others are like it . In Secret Love , in Marriage à la Mode , in Aureng - Zebe , in the Indian Emperor , and especially in the Conquest of Granada ...
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... phrases of chivalry ? He would need a whole world , for a whole world is necessary to form noble souls . Virtue , in the French tragic poets , is founded on reason , religion , education , philosophy . Their characters have that ...
... phrases of chivalry ? He would need a whole world , for a whole world is necessary to form noble souls . Virtue , in the French tragic poets , is founded on reason , religion , education , philosophy . Their characters have that ...
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... phrases ? What of the maid , speaking in the author's words , who bids her half- mad mistress ' call reason to assist you ? ' What of such a Cleopatra as his , designed after Lady Castlemaine , 1 skilled in artifices and whimpering ...
... phrases ? What of the maid , speaking in the author's words , who bids her half- mad mistress ' call reason to assist you ? ' What of such a Cleopatra as his , designed after Lady Castlemaine , 1 skilled in artifices and whimpering ...
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... phrases , the classical declamation , the well- poised antitheses , buzzed about him , and drowned his note in their sustained and monotonous hum . Had he but been born a hundred years earlier ! In his Orphan and Venice Preserved we ...
... phrases , the classical declamation , the well- poised antitheses , buzzed about him , and drowned his note in their sustained and monotonous hum . Had he but been born a hundred years earlier ! In his Orphan and Venice Preserved we ...
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Page 514 - And to the barge they came. There those three Queens Put forth their hands, and took the King, and wept. But she, that rose the tallest of them all And fairest, laid his head upon her lap, And loosed the shatter'd cusque, and chafed his hands And call'd him by his name, complaining loud.
Page 173 - WE were now treading that illustrious Island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible.
Page 89 - 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.
Page 503 - Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight.
Page 345 - Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts : nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir...
Page 31 - Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise ! See the snakes that they rear How they hiss in their hair, And the sparkles that flash from their eyes...
Page 266 - I STOOD in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand ; I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles...
Page 21 - Of these the false Achitophel was first: A name to all succeeding ages cursed. For close designs, and crooked counsels fit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit: Restless, unfixed in principles and place; In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace. A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay: And o'er informed the tenement of clay.
Page 501 - Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Full-faced above the valley stood the moon; And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. A land of streams! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go; And some thro' wavering lights and shadows broke, Rolling a slumbrous sheet of foam below.
Page 101 - These are the mansions of good men after death, who, according to the degree and kinds of virtue in which they excelled, are distributed among these several islands, which abound with pleasures of different kinds and degrees suitable to the relishes and perfections of those who are settled in them; every island is a paradise accommodated to its respective inhabitants. Are not these, O Mirza, habitations worth contending for?