History of English Literature, Volumen3Colonial Press, 1900 |
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... lady's maid , in Louis XIV's time , wrote better than the greatest of mod . ern writers . " 3 form part of conversation and eloquence . This it is CHAPTER SEVENTH The Poets SECTION I The Domination of the Classical Spirit PAGE.
... lady's maid , in Louis XIV's time , wrote better than the greatest of mod . ern writers . " 3 form part of conversation and eloquence . This it is CHAPTER SEVENTH The Poets SECTION I The Domination of the Classical Spirit PAGE.
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... Lady Mary Wortley , his former Pope's Works , ed . Elwin , i . 242 . • Tohnson , " Lives of the Most Emi- nent English Poets . " 3 vols . ed . Cun- ningham , 1854. A. Pope , iii . 96 . poetical divinity , were unfortunately at table ...
... Lady Mary Wortley , his former Pope's Works , ed . Elwin , i . 242 . • Tohnson , " Lives of the Most Emi- nent English Poets . " 3 vols . ed . Cun- ningham , 1854. A. Pope , iii . 96 . poetical divinity , were unfortunately at table ...
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... Lady Bolingbroke used to say that he played the politician about cabbages and turnips . ' " 6 The rest of his life is not much more noble . He wrote libels on the Duke of Chandos , Aaron Hill , Lady Mary Wortley , and then lied or ...
... Lady Bolingbroke used to say that he played the politician about cabbages and turnips . ' " 6 The rest of his life is not much more noble . He wrote libels on the Duke of Chandos , Aaron Hill , Lady Mary Wortley , and then lied or ...
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... ladies , to speak elegantly of their choc- olate or their fan , to jeer at fools , to criticise the last tragedy , to be ... lady herself , and will never scold her for passing three hours at her glass ; there is poetry in elegance . He ...
... ladies , to speak elegantly of their choc- olate or their fan , to jeer at fools , to criticise the last tragedy , to be ... lady herself , and will never scold her for passing three hours at her glass ; there is poetry in elegance . He ...
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... Lady Mary Wortley Montague , who was in her time " the pink of fashion " and who is compared to Mme . de Sévigné , has such a serious mind , such a decided style , such a precise judgment , and such a harsh sarcasm , that we would take ...
... Lady Mary Wortley Montague , who was in her time " the pink of fashion " and who is compared to Mme . de Sévigné , has such a serious mind , such a decided style , such a precise judgment , and such a harsh sarcasm , that we would take ...
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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...