Collected Essays of W. P. KerMacmillan and Company, limited, 1925 |
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... French classic for whose life and writings so much has been done in the last thirty years by a fine scholarship , and so devotedly , as Pascal's . But if we cannot find the plan , we can find the author . Polemics have died away and ...
... French classic for whose life and writings so much has been done in the last thirty years by a fine scholarship , and so devotedly , as Pascal's . But if we cannot find the plan , we can find the author . Polemics have died away and ...
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... French ballad book of Doncieux , Le Romancero populaire . This contains specimens from the French region in the largest sense ; it includes Catalan Provençal and Pied- montese as well as French , for all those languages have the same ...
... French ballad book of Doncieux , Le Romancero populaire . This contains specimens from the French region in the largest sense ; it includes Catalan Provençal and Pied- montese as well as French , for all those languages have the same ...
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... French chivalrous poems , the romance of Fergus , and the same book tells how Sir Percival himself in his wanderings came to the 1 The Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow . Forest of Glasgow . One of the chief documents for 28 DON ...
... French chivalrous poems , the romance of Fergus , and the same book tells how Sir Percival himself in his wanderings came to the 1 The Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow . Forest of Glasgow . One of the chief documents for 28 DON ...
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... French tragedy . Don Quixote , in those lectures on literature , comes in after Ariosto ; Hegel is interested in the exploding of medieval romance , and he is careful to show that both Ariosto and Cervantes , in making fun of chivalry ...
... French tragedy . Don Quixote , in those lectures on literature , comes in after Ariosto ; Hegel is interested in the exploding of medieval romance , and he is careful to show that both Ariosto and Cervantes , in making fun of chivalry ...
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... French romance of the seventeenth century . Sidney , it may be remarked , though he did not write Don Quixote , yet shows in some of his sonnets that he had a sharp eye for literary vanity and false rhetoric ; the paradox and ...
... French romance of the seventeenth century . Sidney , it may be remarked , though he did not write Don Quixote , yet shows in some of his sonnets that he had a sharp eye for literary vanity and false rhetoric ; the paradox and ...
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Seite 344 - And that which casts our proficiency therein so much behind, is our time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies given both to schools and universities ; partly in a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head filled by long reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious invention.
Seite 295 - The business of a poet," said Imlac, "is to examine, not the individual, but the species ; to remark general properties and large appearances ; he does not number the streaks of the tulip, or describe the different shades in the verdure of the forest.
Seite 294 - While ladies interpose, and slaves debate. But did not Chance at length her error mend? Did no subverted empire mark his end? Did rival monarchs give the fatal wound? Or hostile millions press him to the ground? His fall was destin'd to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand; He left the name, at which the world grew pale To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Seite 317 - And vacant shepherds piping in the dale: And now and then sweet Philomel would wail, Or stock-doves plain amid the forest deep, That drowsy rustled to the sighing gale; And Still a coil the grasshopper did keep; Yet all these sounds yblent inclined all to sleep.
Seite 293 - The common remark as to the utility of reading history being made ; — JoHNSON : "We must consider how very little history there is ; I mean real authentic history. That certain kings reigned, and certain battles were fought, we can depend upon as true ; but all the colouring, all the philosophy of history is conjecture.
Seite 286 - And, afterwards, the wind and sleety rain, And all the business of the elements, The single sheep, and the one blasted tree, And the bleak music from that old stone wall...
Seite 81 - It's whether will ye be a rank robber's wife, Or will ye die by my wee pen-knife ? ' ' It's I'll not be a rank robber's wife, But I'll rather die by your wee pen-knife.
Seite 309 - Quest' è colei, eh' è tanto posta in croce Pur da color, che le dovrian dar lode, Dandole biasmo a torto e mala voce. Ma ella s' è beata, e ciò non ode : Con 1' altre prime creature lieta Volve sua spera, e beata si gode.
Seite 277 - Such divisions of our country as have been formed by habit, and not by a sudden jerk of authority, were so many little images of the great country in which the heart found something which it could fill.
Seite 344 - Hence appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful ; first, we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek, as might be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year...