Shaw's New History of English LiteratureSheldon & Company, 1874 - 404 páginas |
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... human character , their historians know the secrets of entrancing and philosophical narration , their critics have the keenest acumen , their philosophers probe far into the philosophy of mind , their poets sing the sweetest songs . But ...
... human character , their historians know the secrets of entrancing and philosophical narration , their critics have the keenest acumen , their philosophers probe far into the philosophy of mind , their poets sing the sweetest songs . But ...
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... human that he loved even the foibles of his kind . " " There is no touch of cynicism in all he wrote . " - J . R. Lowell . THER HE fourteenth century is the most important epoch in the intellectual history of Europe . It is the point of ...
... human that he loved even the foibles of his kind . " " There is no touch of cynicism in all he wrote . " - J . R. Lowell . THER HE fourteenth century is the most important epoch in the intellectual history of Europe . It is the point of ...
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... humanity . In the Testament of Love , Chaucer speaks of London as his birth - place . In his Court of Love he speaks of him- self under the name and character of " Philogenet - of Cam- bridge , Clerk ; " but this hardly proves that he ...
... humanity . In the Testament of Love , Chaucer speaks of London as his birth - place . In his Court of Love he speaks of him- self under the name and character of " Philogenet - of Cam- bridge , Clerk ; " but this hardly proves that he ...
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... humanity : it is this which will place him , till the remotest posterity , in the first rank among poets and character - painters . An exact por- traiture of the language and manners of society in a remote age could not fail of ...
... humanity : it is this which will place him , till the remotest posterity , in the first rank among poets and character - painters . An exact por- traiture of the language and manners of society in a remote age could not fail of ...
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... human nature , and exquisite ingenuity of incident . It is much to be regretted that the comic stories turn upon events of a kind which the refinement of modern manners renders it impossible to analyze ; but it should be THE CANTERBURY ...
... human nature , and exquisite ingenuity of incident . It is much to be regretted that the comic stories turn upon events of a kind which the refinement of modern manners renders it impossible to analyze ; but it should be THE CANTERBURY ...
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Página 274 - I received one morning a message from poor Goldsmith that he was in great distress, and as it was not in his power to come to me, begging that I would come to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was dressed, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him.
Página 274 - I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated.
Página 144 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Página 185 - I shall say the less of Mr Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them.
Página 144 - Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
Página 283 - There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness in all his lineaments ; the eye alone, I think, indicated the poetical character and temperament. It was large, and of a dark cast, and glowed (I say literally glowed] when he spoke with feeling or interest. I never saw such another eye in a human head, though I have seen the most distinguished men in my time.
Página 39 - Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That owned the virtuous ring and glass, And of the wondrous horse of brass, On which the Tartar king did ride...
Página 225 - Soon as the evening shades prevail The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth. Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Página 153 - It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time, be so little read. As compositions, they deserve the attention of every man who wishes to become acquainted with the full power of the English language. They abound with passages compared with which the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance. They are a perfect field of cloth of gold. The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the
Página 256 - Beauclerk and the beaming smile of Garrick, Gibbon tapping his snuff-box and Sir Joshua with his trumpet in his ear. In the foreground is that strange figure which is as familiar to us as the figures of those among whom we have been brought up, the gigantic body, the huge massy face, seamed with the scars of disease, the brown coat, the black worsted stockings, the grey wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick.