Readings in English Prose of the Nineteenth Century, Parte1Raymond Macdonald Alden Houghton Mifflin, 1917 - 685 páginas |
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... perhaps , in so mixed and numerous a party have I since heard conversation sustained with such animation , enriched with such variety of information , and enlivened with such a flow of anecdote . Both then and afterwards they all joined ...
... perhaps , in so mixed and numerous a party have I since heard conversation sustained with such animation , enriched with such variety of information , and enlivened with such a flow of anecdote . Both then and afterwards they all joined ...
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... perhaps thinking that charity ought to begin nearest home , instead of abusing the government and the aristocrats chiefly or entirely , as had been expected of me , I leveled my attacks at " modern patriotism , " and even ventured to ...
... perhaps thinking that charity ought to begin nearest home , instead of abusing the government and the aristocrats chiefly or entirely , as had been expected of me , I leveled my attacks at " modern patriotism , " and even ventured to ...
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... medita- tive minds , and their admiration ( inflamed perhaps in some de- gree by opposition ) was distinguished by its intensity , I might almost say by its religious fervor . These facts , 12 SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE.
... medita- tive minds , and their admiration ( inflamed perhaps in some de- gree by opposition ) was distinguished by its intensity , I might almost say by its religious fervor . These facts , 12 SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE.
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... pond Which is a little step beyond , I wish that you would go ; Perhaps when you are at the place , You something of her tale may trace . from the comparative inferiority of those instances ; still more BIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA 21.
... pond Which is a little step beyond , I wish that you would go ; Perhaps when you are at the place , You something of her tale may trace . from the comparative inferiority of those instances ; still more BIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA 21.
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... perhaps the weightiest obstacle to the progress of our most zealous and adroit missionaries . Yet these tribes are surrounded by the same nature as our peasants are , but in still more impressive forms , and they are , moreover ...
... perhaps the weightiest obstacle to the progress of our most zealous and adroit missionaries . Yet these tribes are surrounded by the same nature as our peasants are , but in still more impressive forms , and they are , moreover ...
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Readings in English Prose of the Nineteenth Century, Parte1 Raymond Macdonald Alden Vista completa - 1917 |
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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.