History of English Literature, Volumen3Colonial Press, 1900 |
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... hundred and fifty years , practice and theory , in- ventions and imitations , examples and criticism , are employed in attaining it . They comprehend only one kind of beauty ; they establish only the precepts which may produce it ; they ...
... hundred and fifty years , practice and theory , in- ventions and imitations , examples and criticism , are employed in attaining it . They comprehend only one kind of beauty ; they establish only the precepts which may produce it ; they ...
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... hundred pounds . He was never in the pay of a publisher ; he looked from an eminence upon the beggarly authors grovelling in their free and easy life , and , calmly seated in his pretty house at Twickenham , in his grotto , or in the ...
... hundred pounds . He was never in the pay of a publisher ; he looked from an eminence upon the beggarly authors grovelling in their free and easy life , and , calmly seated in his pretty house at Twickenham , in his grotto , or in the ...
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... hundred and fifty years men of both the thinking countries , England and France , em- ployed herein all their study . They seized those universal and limited truths , which , being situated between lofty philosophical abstractions and ...
... hundred and fifty years men of both the thinking countries , England and France , em- ployed herein all their study . They seized those universal and limited truths , which , being situated between lofty philosophical abstractions and ...
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... hundred and forty . Let us remember , when we wish to judge her fairly , the time when we made French verses like our Latin verse . Taste became transformed an age ago , for the human mind has wheeled round ; with the prospect the ...
... hundred and forty . Let us remember , when we wish to judge her fairly , the time when we made French verses like our Latin verse . Taste became transformed an age ago , for the human mind has wheeled round ; with the prospect the ...
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... hundred and twenty years of literature can give his precepts . Their prose is always the slave of the period : Dr. Johnson , who was at once the La Harpe and the Boileau of his age , explains and imposes on all the studied , balanced ...
... hundred and twenty years of literature can give his precepts . Their prose is always the slave of the period : Dr. Johnson , who was at once the La Harpe and the Boileau of his age , explains and imposes on all the studied , balanced ...
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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...