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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... point to the early date of part of the poem . Whatever be the date , it is a striking piece of work , and appears to have supplied Milton increased by the habit of visiting Rome , which became 20 CHAP . I. NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS .
... point to the early date of part of the poem . Whatever be the date , it is a striking piece of work , and appears to have supplied Milton increased by the habit of visiting Rome , which became 20 CHAP . I. NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS .
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... piece of writing completely successful in all its aims . It is not Chaucer's greatest work , but it is the most perfect . The Canterbury Pilgrims represent the whole of English society . The Knight is a gentleman of the old school - the ...
... piece of writing completely successful in all its aims . It is not Chaucer's greatest work , but it is the most perfect . The Canterbury Pilgrims represent the whole of English society . The Knight is a gentleman of the old school - the ...
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... piece of verse is to be found in Percy's Reliques : its motive was frequently used in after days by other ballad writers . Henryson was well known to contemporary men of letters , and Dunbar speaks with regret of " gude Master Robert ...
... piece of verse is to be found in Percy's Reliques : its motive was frequently used in after days by other ballad writers . Henryson was well known to contemporary men of letters , and Dunbar speaks with regret of " gude Master Robert ...
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... piece , there can be but one opinion . Another very strange " The Book of the Sparrow . " the Church . pleasantry is The Book of the Sparrow , a humor- ous dirge upon the death of a tame sparrow , the favourite of a young lady who was a ...
... piece , there can be but one opinion . Another very strange " The Book of the Sparrow . " the Church . pleasantry is The Book of the Sparrow , a humor- ous dirge upon the death of a tame sparrow , the favourite of a young lady who was a ...
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... piece of back- stairs history . It is enough to say that Surrey , accused by the Earl of Hertford , and attainted of high treason , was thrown into the Tower and beheaded on January 19 , 1547. The frivolous charge on which he was ...
... piece of back- stairs history . It is enough to say that Surrey , accused by the Earl of Hertford , and attainted of high treason , was thrown into the Tower and beheaded on January 19 , 1547. The frivolous charge on which he was ...
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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 |
A History of English Literature and of the Chief English Writers, Founded on ... A. Hamilton 1873-1952 Thompson Predogled ni na voljo - 2015 |
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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.