History of English Literature, Volumen3Colonial Press, 1900 |
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... amongst all the English poets his favorite was Dryden , the least The Rev. Whitwell Elwin , in his sec- ond volume of the works of Alexander Pope , at the end of his introduction to " An Essay on Man , " p . 338 , says : " M. Taine ...
... amongst all the English poets his favorite was Dryden , the least The Rev. Whitwell Elwin , in his sec- ond volume of the works of Alexander Pope , at the end of his introduction to " An Essay on Man , " p . 338 , says : " M. Taine ...
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... amongst " the happiest productions of the human mind " ; that Lord Byron himself preferred it to the celebrated ode of Sappho . I read it again and am bored ; this is not as it ought to be ; but , in spite of myself , I yawn , and I ...
... amongst " the happiest productions of the human mind " ; that Lord Byron himself preferred it to the celebrated ode of Sappho . I read it again and am bored ; this is not as it ought to be ; but , in spite of myself , I yawn , and I ...
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... Amongst other drabs , ugly enough and always dirty , he finished by keeping Elizabeth Cox , and all but married her ; fortunately he died just in time . His style was like his manners . When he tried to imitate La Fontaine's " Hans ...
... Amongst other drabs , ugly enough and always dirty , he finished by keeping Elizabeth Cox , and all but married her ; fortunately he died just in time . His style was like his manners . When he tried to imitate La Fontaine's " Hans ...
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... Amongst other drabs , ugly enough and always dirty , he finished by keeping Elizabeth Cox , and all but married her ; fortunately he died just in time . His style was like his manners . When he tried to imitate La Fontaine's " Hans ...
... Amongst other drabs , ugly enough and always dirty , he finished by keeping Elizabeth Cox , and all but married her ; fortunately he died just in time . His style was like his manners . When he tried to imitate La Fontaine's " Hans ...
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... amongst the great , " an honest contempt for whatever bore the appearance of meanness and servility " made him “ fall into the opposite error of hardness of manner . " He had also the consciousness of his own merits . " Pauvre inconnu ...
... amongst the great , " an honest contempt for whatever bore the appearance of meanness and servility " made him “ fall into the opposite error of hardness of manner . " He had also the consciousness of his own merits . " Pauvre inconnu ...
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Página 107 - 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.
Página 390 - On lips that are for others ; deep as love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret; O Death in Life, the days that are no more.
Página 320 - Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.
Página 381 - 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.
Página 397 - The old order changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfils himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world Comfort thyself: what comfort is in me?
Página 390 - TEARS, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail, That brings our friends up from the underworld, Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge ; So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
Página 200 - 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.
Página 62 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Página 20 - Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great ; With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between ; in doubt to act or rest ; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast...
Página 397 - Then saw they how there hove a dusky barge, Dark as a funeral scarf from stem to stern, Beneath them ; and descending they were ware That all the decks were dense with stately forms, Black-stoled, black-hooded, like a dream — by these Three Queens with crowns of gold : and from them rose A cry that...