A History of English Literature and of the Chief English Writers: Founded on the Manual of Thomas B. ShawMurray, 1901 - 836 strani |
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... lines or parts of lines which we call rhyme . Their simple requisite essential of verse was that in any two successive lines --which might be of any length - there should be at least three words beginning with the same letter . This odd ...
... lines or parts of lines which we call rhyme . Their simple requisite essential of verse was that in any two successive lines --which might be of any length - there should be at least three words beginning with the same letter . This odd ...
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... line , the commencement of the English language ; not so much , as in those of the Continent , because we are in want of ... lines of Chaucer : - and from Chaucer . " The sleere of him - self yet saugh I 18 CHAP . I. ORIGIN OF THE ENGLISH.
... line , the commencement of the English language ; not so much , as in those of the Continent , because we are in want of ... lines of Chaucer : - and from Chaucer . " The sleere of him - self yet saugh I 18 CHAP . I. ORIGIN OF THE ENGLISH.
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... lines to 32,250 , partly by paraphrasing , partly by inserting speeches and other compositions , such as the Dream of Arthur , which show much imaginative power , and partly by the addition of many le- gends , from Welsh and other ...
... lines to 32,250 , partly by paraphrasing , partly by inserting speeches and other compositions , such as the Dream of Arthur , which show much imaginative power , and partly by the addition of many le- gends , from Welsh and other ...
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... lines ( or , rather , couplets ) of fifteen syllables , differing from the " common service metre only in ending ... line dividing the two periods , being probably not later than 1250 . The Among the chief literary works of this period ...
... lines ( or , rather , couplets ) of fifteen syllables , differing from the " common service metre only in ending ... line dividing the two periods , being probably not later than 1250 . The Among the chief literary works of this period ...
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... lines ; while over and above all this , there is Chaucer's own faculty as a poet gradually disengaging itself from all contemporary fashions and coming out clear and distinct from the medieval traditions . In the case of few writers is ...
... lines ; while over and above all this , there is Chaucer's own faculty as a poet gradually disengaging itself from all contemporary fashions and coming out clear and distinct from the medieval traditions . In the case of few writers is ...
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A History of English Literature and of the Chief English Writers: Founded ... Alexander Hamilton Thompson Predogled ni na voljo - 2017 |
A History of English Literature and of the Chief English Writers: Founded ... Alexander Hamilton Thompson Predogled ni na voljo - 2017 |
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Stran 307 - ... from a lucky hitting upon what is strange ; sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose. Often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable ; being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language.
Stran 184 - Yes, trust them not: for there is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart, wrapt in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Stran 473 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a Patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
Stran 474 - I may surely be contented without the praise of perfection, which, if I could obtain, in this gloom of solitude, what would it avail me? I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
Stran 473 - Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.
Stran 257 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Stran 307 - Sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude; sometimes it is lodged in a sly question, in a smart answer, in a quirkish reason, in a shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection. Sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation, of persons...
Stran 717 - Mr. Hallam is, on the whole, far better qualified than any other writer of our time for the office which he has undertaken. He has great industry and great acuteness. His knowledge is extensive, various, and profound. His mind is equally distinguished by the amplitude of its grasp, and by the delicacy of its tact.
Stran 50 - But enough of this ; there is such a variety of game springing up before me that I am distracted in my choice and know not which to follow. It is sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.
Stran 408 - steerer of the realm," to Miss Pulteney in the nursery. The numbers are smooth and sprightly, and the diction is seldom faulty. They are not loaded with much thought, yet, if they had been written by Addison, they would have had admirers; little things are not valued but when they are done by those who can do greater.