The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volumen2Harper, 1858 |
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... English Literature , on account of its supposed resemblance , in intellectual opulence , to the reign of the Emperor Augustus . This opinion is not , how- ever , followed in the present age . The praise due to good sense , and a correct ...
... English Literature , on account of its supposed resemblance , in intellectual opulence , to the reign of the Emperor Augustus . This opinion is not , how- ever , followed in the present age . The praise due to good sense , and a correct ...
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... English poem in the form of an address to Dryden ; and soon after published a translation of the greater part of Virgil's Fourth Georgic , upon Bees , with which Dryden was so much pleased , that he paid the youthful poet the compliment ...
... English poem in the form of an address to Dryden ; and soon after published a translation of the greater part of Virgil's Fourth Georgic , upon Bees , with which Dryden was so much pleased , that he paid the youthful poet the compliment ...
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... English poetry . To sustain these remarks , we present the following extract : - For wheresoe'er I turn my ravish'd eyes , Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise ; Poetic fields encompass me around , And still I seem to tread on ...
... English poetry . To sustain these remarks , we present the following extract : - For wheresoe'er I turn my ravish'd eyes , Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise ; Poetic fields encompass me around , And still I seem to tread on ...
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... English language . The maturity of judgment that it exhibits is truly won- derful . The author's style was now thoroughly formed . His versification was based upon that of Dryden , but he gave to the heroic couplet a peculiar grace and ...
... English language . The maturity of judgment that it exhibits is truly won- derful . The author's style was now thoroughly formed . His versification was based upon that of Dryden , but he gave to the heroic couplet a peculiar grace and ...
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... English opera , a species of light comedy continued by songs and music , which for a time supplanted the Italian opera , with all its exotic and elaborate graces . Gay wrote a sequel to the ' Beggar's Opera , ' under the title of Polly ...
... English opera , a species of light comedy continued by songs and music , which for a time supplanted the Italian opera , with all its exotic and elaborate graces . Gay wrote a sequel to the ' Beggar's Opera , ' under the title of Polly ...
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Página 382 - Wept o'er his wounds or tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch, and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.
Página 340 - With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by th' unlettered muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die.
Página 382 - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault...
Página 451 - Wha will be a traitor knave? Wha can fill a coward's grave? Wha sae base as be a slave ? Let him turn and flee ! Wha for Scotland's king and law Freedom's sword will strongly draw, Freeman stand, or Freeman fa...
Página 382 - But, in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all ; And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt her new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Página 586 - If I were an American as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never, never, never!
Página 381 - Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene! How often have I paused on every charm, The sheltered cot, the cultivated farm, The never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topped the neighbouring hill, The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made!
Página 338 - THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Página 423 - My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned and rulers of the earth; But higher far my proud pretensions rise — The son of parents passed into the skies!
Página 295 - And that through every stage: when young, indeed, In full content we, sometimes, nobly rest, Unanxious for ourselves ; and only wish, As duteous sons, our fathers were more wise. At thirty man suspects himself a fool: Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve ; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves; and re-resolves; then dies the same.