A Compendious History of English Literature and of the English Language, from the Norman Conquest: with Numerous Specimens, Band 2Griffin, Bohn, 1861 |
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... feelings and notions in common . A new language and quite a new turn of tragic and comic interest came in with the Restoration . " * Of this writer , who survived till 1666 , the merits and defects have been well stated , in a few ...
... feelings and notions in common . A new language and quite a new turn of tragic and comic interest came in with the Restoration . " * Of this writer , who survived till 1666 , the merits and defects have been well stated , in a few ...
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... feeling , nor without some passages of considerable merit . But in many other parts it is quite gro- tesque ; and , on the whole , it is fantastic , puerile , and wearisome . Mr. Hallam thinks that Giles Fletcher , in his poem of ...
... feeling , nor without some passages of considerable merit . But in many other parts it is quite gro- tesque ; and , on the whole , it is fantastic , puerile , and wearisome . Mr. Hallam thinks that Giles Fletcher , in his poem of ...
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... feeling . Campbell has borrowed from him the line in his Dream of the Exile , " The sentinel stars set their watch in the sky ; " which in Lovelace is , in one of his addresses to Lucasta , " Like to the sentinel stars , I watch all ...
... feeling . Campbell has borrowed from him the line in his Dream of the Exile , " The sentinel stars set their watch in the sky ; " which in Lovelace is , in one of his addresses to Lucasta , " Like to the sentinel stars , I watch all ...
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... feeling , and a fuller swell of verse . The spirit of the same classical style pervades both ; and they are the two greatest poems in that style which had been produced down to the date at which we are now arrived . Denham is the author ...
... feeling , and a fuller swell of verse . The spirit of the same classical style pervades both ; and they are the two greatest poems in that style which had been produced down to the date at which we are now arrived . Denham is the author ...
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... feeling , and an evident familiarity with the highest models . Here are a few of its more striking verses : - Nature and law , by thy divine decree • The only sort of righteous royalty , With this dim diadem invested me . • The fiercest ...
... feeling , and an evident familiarity with the highest models . Here are a few of its more striking verses : - Nature and law , by thy divine decree • The only sort of righteous royalty , With this dim diadem invested me . • The fiercest ...
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Seite 460 - All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame. Oft in my waking dreams do I Live o'er again that happy hour, When midway on the mount I lay, Beside the ruined tower.
Seite 77 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Seite 502 - We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Seite 463 - For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to be still and patient, all I can ; And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all the natural man— This was my sole resource, my only plan : Till that which suits a part infects the whole, And now is almoit grown the habit of my soul.
Seite 463 - Heaven lies about us in our infancy. Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy; But he beholds the light and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy. The youth who daily farther from the East Must travel, still is Nature's priest, And, by the vision splendid, Is on his way attended. At length the man perceives it die away And fade into the light of common day.
Seite 505 - I cannot see what flowers are at my feet Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet...
Seite 505 - Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy ! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod.
Seite 90 - To his Coy Mistress Had we but world enough and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime. We would sit down and think which way To walk and pass our long love's day. Thou by the Indian Ganges' side Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide Of Huraber would complain.
Seite 208 - Truth may, perhaps, come to the price of a pearl that showeth best by day, but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ^ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?
Seite 360 - With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips are thine — thy own sweet smile I see, The same that oft in childhood solaced me ; Voice only fails, else how distinct they say, " Grieve not, my child, chase all thy fears away!