History of English Literature, Band 3Chatto and Windus, 1890 |
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... Argument against Abolishing Christianity— Political invective— 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 V ...
... Argument against Abolishing Christianity— Political invective— 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 V ...
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... arguments . He has maxims vigorously enclosed in the compass of a single line , distinctions , de- velopments , and the whole art of special pleading . He has happy antitheses , ornamental epithets , finely - wrought comparisons , and ...
... arguments . He has maxims vigorously enclosed in the compass of a single line , distinctions , de- velopments , and the whole art of special pleading . He has happy antitheses , ornamental epithets , finely - wrought comparisons , and ...
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... arguments which unfold and sustain it . We can see that he thinks , and that on his own behalf ; that he combines and verifies his thoughts ; that besides all this , he naturally has a just perception , and that with his method he has ...
... arguments which unfold and sustain it . We can see that he thinks , and that on his own behalf ; that he combines and verifies his thoughts ; that besides all this , he naturally has a just perception , and that with his method he has ...
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... arguments and individual opinions , above the petty mannerism of rhetoric and affectations of style , a master of verse , a slave to his idea , with that abundance of thought which is the sign of true genius : " Thoughts such as they ...
... arguments and individual opinions , above the petty mannerism of rhetoric and affectations of style , a master of verse , a slave to his idea , with that abundance of thought which is the sign of true genius : " Thoughts such as they ...
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... argument is close and theological throughout . His hearers were not wits , who cared to see how a dry subject could be adorned ; they were not theologians , only by accident and for a moment , animated by mistrustful and cautious ...
... argument is close and theological throughout . His hearers were not wits , who cared to see how a dry subject could be adorned ; they were not theologians , only by accident and for a moment , animated by mistrustful and cautious ...
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Seite 323 - 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.
Seite 122 - 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...
Seite 68 - Revenge ! revenge ! Timotheus cries, See the furies arise ! See the snakes that they rear, How they hiss in their hair ! And the sparkles that flash from their eyes...
Seite 421 - 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.
Seite 359 - 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...
Seite 52 - 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.
Seite 67 - 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...
Seite 191 - 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.
Seite 191 - ... him to my imagination, and at once dispelled all the fears and apprehensions with which I approached him. He lifted me from the ground, and taking me by the hand, 'Mirza,' said he, 'I have heard thee in thy soliloquies; follow me.
Seite 191 - On the fifth day of the moon, which according to the custom of my forefathers I always keep holy, after having washed myself and offered up my morning devotions, I ascended the high hills of Bagdad, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer.