First Steps in English LiteratureHurd and Houghton, 1870 - 233 páginas |
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... writing . Literature proper is addressed to man as man , and is catholic , universal , not exclusive . It is adapted to strengthen rather than to store the mind . A treatise on arith- metic or geometry is , therefore , not a part of ...
... writing . Literature proper is addressed to man as man , and is catholic , universal , not exclusive . It is adapted to strengthen rather than to store the mind . A treatise on arith- metic or geometry is , therefore , not a part of ...
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... written in the Romance languages . The earliest were founded upon the lives and deeds of King Arthur and the Emperor Charlemagne . 3. Dramatic Prose , which is of the same nature as dramatic verse . III . Oratory , as a division of ...
... written in the Romance languages . The earliest were founded upon the lives and deeds of King Arthur and the Emperor Charlemagne . 3. Dramatic Prose , which is of the same nature as dramatic verse . III . Oratory , as a division of ...
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... written since the days of Eliza- beth , most of what comes to us from an earlier date is only understood with the help of a glossary , or after special study . The language of the writers since 1558 is substantially our own , and is ...
... written since the days of Eliza- beth , most of what comes to us from an earlier date is only understood with the help of a glossary , or after special study . The language of the writers since 1558 is substantially our own , and is ...
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... written by another monk , cele- brated as the Venerable Bede , who wrote a few years later . It was first published in 1655 , only twelve years before the publication of Milton's Paradise Lost . Like Milton , this early poet be- gins ...
... written by another monk , cele- brated as the Venerable Bede , who wrote a few years later . It was first published in 1655 , only twelve years before the publication of Milton's Paradise Lost . Like Milton , this early poet be- gins ...
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... , was the work of various hands , and was continued through cen- turies . It is the most valuable work of the period , for it is history written at the time , and although dry and lifeless , it is not to be despised Original English . 35.
... , was the work of various hands , and was continued through cen- turies . It is the most valuable work of the period , for it is history written at the time , and although dry and lifeless , it is not to be despised Original English . 35.
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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.