English Essays from Sir Philip Sidney to Macaulay: With Introductions, Notes and IllustrationsCharles William Eliot P.F. Collier & Son, 1910 - 421 strani "A collection of essays written by English authors" --provided by cataloger. |
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Addison admiration Æneid ancient appears Aristotle beauty called Cato character Chevy Chase Church of England common considered conversation criticism death defects delight divine doth Edinburgh Review effect elegant enemy essay ESTHER JOHNSON excellent eyes faculty friends genius give hath honor human imagination imitation Italian Italy Juba kind King ladies language learning less lived Livy Lord Machiavelli manners matter ment mind moral nation nature never object observed opinion particular passion perhaps person Petrarch philosopher Pindar Plato play pleasure Plutarch poem poesy poetical poetical justice poetry poets political Pope praise Prince principles reason religion seems Sempronius sense sentiment shew Sir Philip Sidney speak Spectator spirit Steele supposed Syphax taste Tatler things thought tion tragedy true truth verse virtue Whig whole withered surface words write
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Stran 309 - I am your wife, if you will marry me ; If not, I'll die your maid. To be your fellow You may deny me ; but I'll be your servant, Whether you will or no." Such are the discoveries which the poets make for us ; worlds to which that of Columbus was but a handful of brute matter.
Stran 59 - did never wrong but with just cause;"* and such like, which were ridiculous. But he redeemed his vices with his virtues. There was ever more in him to be praised than to be pardoned. 'The speech is not found in this form in our version of
Stran 30 - In the mill," where slaves were sent for punishment. not my heart moved more than with a trumpet ; and yet it is sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobwebs of that uncivil age, what would it work, trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar? In Hungary I
Stran 284 - From these the world will judge of men and books, Not from the Burnets, Oldmixons, and Cooks.' " u Here his voice totally failed him, and throwing down the book, he said, " Do you think I would not wish to have been friends with such
Stran 312 - On the Tragedies of Shakespeare" is the most distinguished single piece of critical writing that came from his pen. The main thesis of the paper—"that the plays of Shakespeare are less calculated for performance on a stage than those of almost any dramatist
Stran 7 - before I came to him, I think he would have persuaded me to have wished myself a horse. But thus much at least with his no few words he drave into me, that self-love is better than any gilding to make that seem gorgeous wherein ourselves be parties. Wherein if Pugliano's strong affection and weak
Stran 25 - with interpretations, and load the memory with doubtfulness. But he cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well-enchanting skill of music; and with a tale,
Stran 11 - this word charms, derived of carmina, cometh—so yet serveth it to show the great reverence those wits were held in, and altogether not" without ground, since both the oracles of Delphos and Sibylla's prophecies were wholly delivered in verses; for that same exquisite observing of number and measure in words, and that high-flying liberty of conceit
Stran 21 - For conclusion, I say the philosopher teacheth, but he teacheth obscurely, so as the learned only can understand him ; that is to say, he teacheth them that are already taught. But the poet is the food for the tenderest stomachs; the poet is indeed the right popular philosopher. Whereof
Stran 18 - no care, so He be a good citizen, how bad a man he be ; therefore, as our wickedness maketh him necessary, and necessity maketh him honorable, so is he not in the deepest truth to stand in rank with these, who all endeavor to take naughtiness away, and plant goodness even in the secretest cabinet of