History of English Literature, Том 3Chatto & Windus, 1883 |
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... - Personal defamation - Incisive common sense- Grave irony . IV . The poet - Comparison of Swift and Voltaire- Gravity and harshness of his jests - Bickerstaff- • 198 210 214 Coarseness of his gallantry - Cadenus and Vanessa -His prosaic.
... - Personal defamation - Incisive common sense- Grave irony . IV . The poet - Comparison of Swift and Voltaire- Gravity and harshness of his jests - Bickerstaff- • 198 210 214 Coarseness of his gallantry - Cadenus and Vanessa -His prosaic.
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... common sense - Religious emotions -Final piety · III . Circumstances which gave rise to the novels of the eighteenth century - All these novels are moral fictions and studies of character - Connection of the essay and the novel - Two ...
... common sense - Religious emotions -Final piety · III . Circumstances which gave rise to the novels of the eighteenth century - All these novels are moral fictions and studies of character - Connection of the essay and the novel - Two ...
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... common expressions : " In the age wherein those poets lived , there was less of gallantry Chan in ours . . . Besides the want of education and learning , they wanted the benefit of converse . Gentlemen will now be entertained with the ...
... common expressions : " In the age wherein those poets lived , there was less of gallantry Chan in ours . . . Besides the want of education and learning , they wanted the benefit of converse . Gentlemen will now be entertained with the ...
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... common to the old authors , for a rhymed tragedy like the French , fancying that he is thus inventing a new species , which he calls heroic play . But in this transformation the good perished , the bad remains . For rhyme differs in ...
... common to the old authors , for a rhymed tragedy like the French , fancying that he is thus inventing a new species , which he calls heroic play . But in this transformation the good perished , the bad remains . For rhyme differs in ...
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... common dew . [ Weeping . I have not wept this forty years ; but now My mother comes afresh into my eyes , I cannot help her softness . Antony . By Heaven , he weeps ! poor , good old man , he weeps ! The big round drops course one ...
... common dew . [ Weeping . I have not wept this forty years ; but now My mother comes afresh into my eyes , I cannot help her softness . Antony . By Heaven , he weeps ! poor , good old man , he weeps ! The big round drops course one ...
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Стр. 321 - WE were now treading that illustrious Island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible.
Стр. 124 - Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by...
Стр. 174 - It was said of Socrates, that he brought Philosophy down from Heaven, to inhabit among Men; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-Tables and in CoffeeHouses.
Стр. 70 - Now strike the golden lyre again; A louder yet, and yet a louder strain. Break his bands of sleep asunder, And rouse him, like a rattling peal of thunder. Hark, hark, the horrid sound Has raised up his head; As awaked from the dead, And, amazed, he stares around. "Revenge, revenge!
Стр. 417 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Стр. 53 - Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages curst : For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit, Restless, unfixed in principles and place, 7° In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace; A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay And o'er-informed the tenement of clay.
Стр. 357 - Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great : With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between ; in doubt to act, or rest ; In doubt to deem himself a God or beast...
Стр. 54 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Стр. 69 - Flush'd with a purple grace He shows his honest face: Now give the hautboys breath; he comes, he comes ! Bacchus, ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain ; Bacchus...
Стр. 193 - I had ever heard. They put me in mind of those heavenly airs that are played to the departed souls of good men upon their first arrival in paradise, to wear out the impressions of the last agonies, and qualify them for the pleasures of that happy place.