First Steps in English LiteratureHurd and Houghton, 1870 - 233 páginas |
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... Coleridge . Charles Lamb . Thomas Arnold . Robert Southey . Thomas Campbell . Thomas Hood . Sydney Smith . Samuel Richardson . Allan Ramsay . Lady Montague . Laurence Sterne . Edgar A. Poe . greve . Tobias G. Smollett . Daniel Webster ...
... Coleridge . Charles Lamb . Thomas Arnold . Robert Southey . Thomas Campbell . Thomas Hood . Sydney Smith . Samuel Richardson . Allan Ramsay . Lady Montague . Laurence Sterne . Edgar A. Poe . greve . Tobias G. Smollett . Daniel Webster ...
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... Coleridge described him as of oceanic mind , by which he intended to express the same idea of multitudinous unity , as when in an- other place he called him thousand - souled . In their grasp , variety , and moral teachings , as well as ...
... Coleridge described him as of oceanic mind , by which he intended to express the same idea of multitudinous unity , as when in an- other place he called him thousand - souled . In their grasp , variety , and moral teachings , as well as ...
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... Cole- ridge , De Quincey , Wilson , and others , to whom the sobriquet Lake School was applied , as if they had founded a poetical sect upon a new theory of composition . As we consider the authors generally included in this school , we ...
... Cole- ridge , De Quincey , Wilson , and others , to whom the sobriquet Lake School was applied , as if they had founded a poetical sect upon a new theory of composition . As we consider the authors generally included in this school , we ...
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... Coleridge , and passed through the same changes of political views and religious doc- trine . He resided at Keswick , among the Cumber- land lakes , and is classed with the Lake poets , though lacking their simplicity and originality ...
... Coleridge , and passed through the same changes of political views and religious doc- trine . He resided at Keswick , among the Cumber- land lakes , and is classed with the Lake poets , though lacking their simplicity and originality ...
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... Coleridge , Southey , Campbell , Hood , Wordsworth , and Rogers , and rejoicing in the elegant prose and romance of Bentham and Scott ; and it is no stretch of the imagination when we figure to ourselves the dignified orator of the ...
... Coleridge , Southey , Campbell , Hood , Wordsworth , and Rogers , and rejoicing in the elegant prose and romance of Bentham and Scott ; and it is no stretch of the imagination when we figure to ourselves the dignified orator of the ...
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Página 125 - As Berecynthia, while her offspring vie In homage to the mother of the sky, Surveys around her, in the...
Página 129 - ... wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick. We see the eyes and mouth moving with convulsive twitches ; we see the heavy form rolling ; we hear it puffing ; and then comes the 'Why, sir!
Página 105 - So effectually, indeed, did he retort on vice the mockery which had recently been directed against virtue, that, since his time, the open violation of decency has always been considered among us as the mark of a fool.
Página 80 - The indorsement of supreme delight, Writ by a Friend, and with His blood ; The couch of time ; care's balm and bay ; The week were dark, but for thy light: Thy torch doth show the way.
Página 93 - Other allegorists have shown equal ingenuity, but no other allegorist has ever been able to touch the heart, and to make abstractions objects of terror, of pity, and of love.
Página 129 - What a singular destiny has been that of this remarkable man! To be regarded in his own age as a classic, and in ours as a companion ! To receive from his contemporaries that full homage which men of genius have in general received only from posterity ! To be more intimately known to posterity than other men are known to their contemporaries!
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Página 115 - Don Quixote, and loved that dear old Sancho, Gay lived, and was lapped in cotton, and had his plate of chicken, and his saucer of cream, and frisked, and barked, and wheezed, and grew fat, and so ended.* He became very melancholy and lazy, sadly plethoric, and only occasionally diverting in his latter days.
Página 138 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Página 39 - And shoot a dullness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.