Readings in English Prose of the Nineteenth Century, Parte1Raymond Macdonald Alden Houghton Mifflin, 1917 - 685 páginas |
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... Lucullus and Cæsar The Empress Catharine and Princess Dashkof Andrew Marvell and Bishop Parker · 164 . 170 175 182 . 190 Southey and Landor . PERICLES AND Aspasia ( 1836 ) Letters CLXXXV , CLXXXVII , CXCII , CXCIV , CCXXXV 195 THE ...
... Lucullus and Cæsar The Empress Catharine and Princess Dashkof Andrew Marvell and Bishop Parker · 164 . 170 175 182 . 190 Southey and Landor . PERICLES AND Aspasia ( 1836 ) Letters CLXXXV , CLXXXVII , CXCII , CXCIV , CCXXXV 195 THE ...
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... to you with it upon my finger . But first I must be cau- tious and particular to know of him how much it is his royal will that I should say . LUCULLUS AND CÆSAR 1 ... Lucullus . You are surveying IMAGINARY CONVERSATIONS 169.
... to you with it upon my finger . But first I must be cau- tious and particular to know of him how much it is his royal will that I should say . LUCULLUS AND CÆSAR 1 ... Lucullus . You are surveying IMAGINARY CONVERSATIONS 169.
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Raymond Macdonald Alden. LUCULLUS AND CÆSAR 1 ... Lucullus . You are surveying the little lake beside us . It contains no fish ; birds never alight on it ; the water is ex- tremely pure and cold ; the walk round is pleasant , not only ...
Raymond Macdonald Alden. LUCULLUS AND CÆSAR 1 ... Lucullus . You are surveying the little lake beside us . It contains no fish ; birds never alight on it ; the water is ex- tremely pure and cold ; the walk round is pleasant , not only ...
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Raymond Macdonald Alden. Cæsar . I wonder not at anything of refined elegance in Lucullus ; but really here Antiochia and Alexandria seem to have cooked for us , and magicians to be our attendants . Lucullus . The absence of slaves from ...
Raymond Macdonald Alden. Cæsar . I wonder not at anything of refined elegance in Lucullus ; but really here Antiochia and Alexandria seem to have cooked for us , and magicians to be our attendants . Lucullus . The absence of slaves from ...
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... Lucullus . Marcus was coming ; but the vehement heats along the Arno , in which valley he has a property he never saw before , inflamed his blood , and he now is resting for a few days at Fæsulæ , a little town destroyed by Sylla within ...
... Lucullus . Marcus was coming ; but the vehement heats along the Arno , in which valley he has a property he never saw before , inflamed his blood , and he now is resting for a few days at Fæsulæ , a little town destroyed by Sylla within ...
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Readings in English Prose of the Nineteenth Century, Parte1 Raymond Macdonald Alden Vista completa - 1917 |
Términos y frases comunes
admiration appears Aspasia beautiful Bossuet brother Cæsar called Catharine character Charles Lamb Coleridge correct criticism Dashkof death delight Domrémy dramatic dreams earth Edinburgh Review effect English essay eyes face fancy feelings Fontanges genius give Gladman Hamlet hand hate heart heaven honour human imagination imitation Julius Cæsar King Lady Landor language Leigh Hunt less literature live London London Magazine look Lucullus Lyrical Ballads Macbeth Mademoiselle manner Marvell means Milton mind moral nature never night object opium Othello Parker passion Pericles person play pleasure poem poet poetical poetry political poor present published Puritan reader round rustic SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE scene seems sense Shakespeare Southey speak spirit supposed sweet talk taste things thou thought tion truth walk whole words Wordsworth write young youth
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Página 9 - During the first year that Mr. Wordsworth and I were neighbours, our conversations turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry, the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and the power of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colours of imagination.
Página 14 - ... reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities: of sameness, with difference; of the general, with the concrete; the idea, with the image; the individual, with the representative; the sense of novelty and freshness, with old and familiar objects...
Página 58 - Come back into memory, like as thou wert in the dayspring of thy fancies, with hope like a fiery column before thee — the dark pillar not yet turned — Samuel Taylor Coleridge — Logician, Metaphysician, Bard ! — How have I seen the casual passer through the Cloisters stand still, entranced with admiration (while he weighed the disproportion between the speech and the garb of the young Mirandula), to hear thee unfold, in thy deep and sweet intonations, the mysteries of...
Página 322 - Made for our searching : yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our dark spirits. Such the sun, the moon, Trees old and young, sprouting a shady boon For simple sheep ; and such are daffodils With the green world they live in...
Página 67 - L , because he was so handsome and spirited a youth, and a king to the rest of us; and, instead of moping about in solitary corners, like some of us, he would mount the most mettlesome horse he could get when but an imp no bigger than themselves, and make it carry him half over the county in a morning, and join the hunters when there were any out...
Página 256 - Thus the Puritan was made up of two different men —the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude, passion ; the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker : but he set his foot on the neck of his king.
Página 87 - ... gridiron. Roasting by the string, or spit, came in a century or two later, I forget in whose dynasty. By such slow degrees, concludes the manuscript, do the most useful, and seemingly the most obvious arts, make their way among mankind.
Página 262 - 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 Paradise Lost...
Página 90 - ... intenerating and dulcifying a substance, naturally so mild and dulcet as the flesh of young pigs. It looks like refining a violet. Yet we should be cautious, while we condemn the inhumanity, how we censure the wisdom of the practice.
Página 256 - They went through the world, like Sir Artegal's iron man Talus with his flail, crushing and trampling down oppressors, mingling with human beings, but having neither part nor lot in human infirmities, insensible to fatigue, to pleasure, and to pain, not to be pierced by any weapon, not to be withstood by any barrier.