History of English Literature, Том 3Chatto & Windus, 1883 |
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... everything is extravagant People cut one another to pieces , take towns , stab each other , shout lustily . These dramas have just the truth and naturalness of the libretto of an opèra Incantations abound ; a spirit appears in the ...
... everything is extravagant People cut one another to pieces , take towns , stab each other , shout lustily . These dramas have just the truth and naturalness of the libretto of an opèra Incantations abound ; a spirit appears in the ...
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... everything contributes All faiths afford the constant and the wise , And yet even they , by education sway'd , In age defend what infancy obeyed . Christian Priest . Since age by erring childhood is misled , Refer yourself to our ...
... everything contributes All faiths afford the constant and the wise , And yet even they , by education sway'd , In age defend what infancy obeyed . Christian Priest . Since age by erring childhood is misled , Refer yourself to our ...
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... everything is connected ; pedantry , logical machinery of every kind , is excluded from it ; there is nothing more disagreeable to well - bred and refined persons than the scholastic rust . Images are rare , but always well kept up ...
... everything is connected ; pedantry , logical machinery of every kind , is excluded from it ; there is nothing more disagreeable to well - bred and refined persons than the scholastic rust . Images are rare , but always well kept up ...
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... everything , even pleasantry and politeness . He wrote to Dennis , who had praised him : " They ( the commendations ) are no more mine when I receive them than the light of the moon can be allowed to be her own , who shines but by the ...
... everything , even pleasantry and politeness . He wrote to Dennis , who had praised him : " They ( the commendations ) are no more mine when I receive them than the light of the moon can be allowed to be her own , who shines but by the ...
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... everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist , fiddler , statesman , and buffoon ; Then all for women , painting , rhyming , drinking , Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking ...
... everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist , fiddler , statesman , and buffoon ; Then all for women , painting , rhyming , drinking , Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking ...
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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.