History of English Literature, Band 3Chatto and Windus, 1890 |
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... fashion , the scandalous importance of the actresses , who were mistresses of the aristocracy and of the king , the example of the court and the imitation of France , drew spectators in crowds . The thirst for pleasure , long repressed ...
... fashion , the scandalous importance of the actresses , who were mistresses of the aristocracy and of the king , the example of the court and the imitation of France , drew spectators in crowds . The thirst for pleasure , long repressed ...
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... fashion . We naturally remain in doubt before a cruel action : we divine that the red irons which are about to put out the eyes of little Arthur are painted sticks , and that the six rascals who besiege Rome , are supernumeraries hired ...
... fashion . We naturally remain in doubt before a cruel action : we divine that the red irons which are about to put out the eyes of little Arthur are painted sticks , and that the six rascals who besiege Rome , are supernumeraries hired ...
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... Fashion . He depicts coarse and vicious cavaliers , rogues . on principle , as harsh and corrupt as those of Wycherley , Beaugard , who vaunts and practises the maxims of Hobbes ; the father , an old , corrupt rascal , who brags of his ...
... Fashion . He depicts coarse and vicious cavaliers , rogues . on principle , as harsh and corrupt as those of Wycherley , Beaugard , who vaunts and practises the maxims of Hobbes ; the father , an old , corrupt rascal , who brags of his ...
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... fashion . Thus delicately tempered , people are able to digest it . But here , far from the fine aristocratic kitchen , it weighs like an undigested mass upon the stomach . I have related how Lord Clarendon , hearing that his daughter ...
... fashion . Thus delicately tempered , people are able to digest it . But here , far from the fine aristocratic kitchen , it weighs like an undigested mass upon the stomach . I have related how Lord Clarendon , hearing that his daughter ...
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... fashion . Their ideas were as small as their hatred was strong ; no general doctrine opened up a poetical vista beyond the tumult of the strife ; texts , traditions , a sad train of rigid reasoning , such were their arms ; the same ...
... fashion . Their ideas were as small as their hatred was strong ; no general doctrine opened up a poetical vista beyond the tumult of the strife ; texts , traditions , a sad train of rigid reasoning , such were their arms ; the same ...
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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.