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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... less , perhaps , of wit ; his dramas produce no deep impression in reading , and of course can leave none in the memory . But his mind was poetical : his better characters , especially females , express pure thoughts in pure language ...
... less , perhaps , of wit ; his dramas produce no deep impression in reading , and of course can leave none in the memory . But his mind was poetical : his better characters , especially females , express pure thoughts in pure language ...
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... less to be tolerated amongst professors of the Christian religion , " and denouncing them as being " the occasion of many and sundry great vices and disorders , tending to the high provo- cation of God's wrath and displeasure , which ...
... less to be tolerated amongst professors of the Christian religion , " and denouncing them as being " the occasion of many and sundry great vices and disorders , tending to the high provo- cation of God's wrath and displeasure , which ...
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... less rigidly en- forced , than that it had been thus violated from the first . We are informed by the historians of the stage , that , though the public exhibition of stage - plays in London was effectually put down by the act of 1648 ...
... less rigidly en- forced , than that it had been thus violated from the first . We are informed by the historians of the stage , that , though the public exhibition of stage - plays in London was effectually put down by the act of 1648 ...
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... less sweetness , less smoothness , and more affectation in his style . " † It ought to be mentioned , however , to the honour of these two writers , that the works of both of them appear to have been studied by Milton , and that ...
... less sweetness , less smoothness , and more affectation in his style . " † It ought to be mentioned , however , to the honour of these two writers , that the works of both of them appear to have been studied by Milton , and that ...
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... less to pay . All travellers , this heavy judgment hear : - A handsome hostess makes the reckoning dear ; Her smiles , her words , your purses must requite ' em , And every welcome from her adds an item . We will add the picture of a ...
... less to pay . All travellers , this heavy judgment hear : - A handsome hostess makes the reckoning dear ; Her smiles , her words , your purses must requite ' em , And every welcome from her adds an item . We will add the picture of a ...
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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!