Introduction to American Literature: Or, The Origin and Development of the English Language, with Gems of PoetryDerby, Bradley, 1846 - 420 Seiten |
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... elements of more matter than many volumes of the terse and beautiful works of Goldsmith , De Stael , and Burke , from which much of it has been drawn ; this is owing to the advantages possessed by compilers of our day . Nearly every ...
... elements of more matter than many volumes of the terse and beautiful works of Goldsmith , De Stael , and Burke , from which much of it has been drawn ; this is owing to the advantages possessed by compilers of our day . Nearly every ...
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... element of intellectual , as well as national life ; it alone exerts an efficient power over the past , adding improvement to improve- ment and keeps alive in the soul the germ of infinity . Through it thought emanates from the solitary ...
... element of intellectual , as well as national life ; it alone exerts an efficient power over the past , adding improvement to improve- ment and keeps alive in the soul the germ of infinity . Through it thought emanates from the solitary ...
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... elements of the art of reasoning itself . To reason is to imitate the process by which language in its formation sepa- rates and combines ideas , and the subordination it institutes among the names which are founded upon the relations ...
... elements of the art of reasoning itself . To reason is to imitate the process by which language in its formation sepa- rates and combines ideas , and the subordination it institutes among the names which are founded upon the relations ...
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... elements which properly constitute our native tongue , we should find it not destitute of great beauty , precision , and energy . It would induce us to preserve our nationality , and to rear upon a permanent foundation a literature of ...
... elements which properly constitute our native tongue , we should find it not destitute of great beauty , precision , and energy . It would induce us to preserve our nationality , and to rear upon a permanent foundation a literature of ...
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... elements of English and American literatue will appear , and we shall be prepared to determine with some degree of certainty the nature of American literature , its present state and its future prospects . Such an investigation promises ...
... elements of English and American literatue will appear , and we shall be prepared to determine with some degree of certainty the nature of American literature , its present state and its future prospects . Such an investigation promises ...
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Alcuin beauty become BEN JONSON Beowulf bower breath bright Cædmon century changes character charm Chaucer chivalry common darkness delight dialects displayed distinction divine doth earth effect elements enchanted English language English poetry expression fair fancy feeling fiction flowers genius GEOFFREY CHAUCER give grace guage harmony hath heart heaven human human voice ideas imagination immortal improvement intellectual JOHN LYDGATE king Latin laws Layamon learning light literature live Lord melody ment Milton mind moral nation native tongue nature never night Norman Norman conquest noun nymph object origin passion perfect poem poet poetic poetry possessed prose reason refined regular language rhyme Robert of Gloucester romance Saxon language says sciences sensibility sentiment shades Shakspeare sing society SONG soul sound speech Spenser spirit stars sublime sweet taste thee things thou thought tion true truth variety verb verse versification Wicliffe words wudre
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Seite 354 - Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook...
Seite 355 - Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That owned the virtuous ring and glass, And of the wond'rous horse of brass, On which the Tartar king did ride; And if aught else, great bards beside, In sage and solemn tunes have sung, Of tourneys and of trophies hung; Of forests, and enchantments drear, Where more is meant than meets the ear.
Seite 355 - And when the sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves And shadows brown that Sylvan loves, Of pine or monumental oak, Where the rude axe, with heaved stroke, Was never heard the nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallowed haunt.
Seite 357 - Hence, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born In Stygian cave forlorn 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy ! Find out some uncouth cell, Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night-raven sings ; There, under ebon shades and low-browed rocks, As ragged as thy locks, In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell.
Seite 272 - How does my royal lord ? How fares your majesty ? Lear. You do me wrong to take me out o' the grave : Thou art a soul in bliss ; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.
Seite 353 - There, held in holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble, till With a sad leaden downward cast Thou fix them on the earth as fast. And join with thee calm Peace and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet, And hears the Muses in a ring Aye round about Jove's altar sing...
Seite 354 - Swinging slow with sullen roar ; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom, Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm, To bless the doors from nightly harm.
Seite 352 - He met her, and in secret shades Of woody Ida's inmost grove, While yet there was no fear of Jove. 30 Come, pensive Nun, devout and pure, Sober, steadfast, and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain Flowing with majestic train, And sable stole of cypress lawn, 35 Over thy decent shoulders drawn.
Seite 264 - Who, in their greatest cost, Seek nothing but commending: And if they make reply, Then give them all the lie. Tell zeal it wants devotion; Tell love it is but lust; Tell time it is but motion; Tell flesh it is but dust: And wish them not reply, For thou must give the lie.
Seite 289 - But you like none, none you, for constant heart. LIV O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem By that sweet ornament which truth doth give! The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live. The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye As the perfumed tincture of the roses, Hang on such thorns and play as wantonly When summer's breath their masked buds discloses; But, for their virtue only is their show, They live unwoo'd and unrespected fade, Die to themselves....