The Outlines of Literature, English and American: Based Upon Shaw's Manual of English LiteratureSheldon, 1897 - 481 Seiten |
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... Charles Lamb says , " To move a horror skillfully , to touch a soul to the quick , to lay upon fear as much as it can bear , to wean and weary a life till it is ready to drop , and then step in with mortal instruments to take its last ...
... Charles Lamb says , " To move a horror skillfully , to touch a soul to the quick , to lay upon fear as much as it can bear , to wean and weary a life till it is ready to drop , and then step in with mortal instruments to take its last ...
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... Charles I. was manager of the court theater . An energetic and useful partisan of the Cavaliers , his share in the intrigues of the Civil War nearly brought him to the scaffold . His life was saved by the interces- sion of an ...
... Charles I. was manager of the court theater . An energetic and useful partisan of the Cavaliers , his share in the intrigues of the Civil War nearly brought him to the scaffold . His life was saved by the interces- sion of an ...
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... Charles I. and the Parliament ; " for , " he says , " I thought it base to be traveling for amusement abroad while my fellow - citizens were fighting for liberty at home . " He was ready to throw himself with ardor into the conflict ...
... Charles I. and the Parliament ; " for , " he says , " I thought it base to be traveling for amusement abroad while my fellow - citizens were fighting for liberty at home . " He was ready to throw himself with ardor into the conflict ...
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... Charles II . , then an exile in France , Salmasius , an eminent scholar and the champion of the royalists , published a Latin pamphlet , main- taining the divine right of kings and invoking vengeance upon the regicides in England . The ...
... Charles II . , then an exile in France , Salmasius , an eminent scholar and the champion of the royalists , published a Latin pamphlet , main- taining the divine right of kings and invoking vengeance upon the regicides in England . The ...
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... [ Charles II . ] offered to reinstate Milton in his office of government advocate if he would devote his talents to the cause of monarchy . His wife entreated him to comply with this proposal . You are a woman , ' replied Milton , and ...
... [ Charles II . ] offered to reinstate Milton in his office of government advocate if he would devote his talents to the cause of monarchy . His wife entreated him to comply with this proposal . You are a woman , ' replied Milton , and ...
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Seite 188 - Soon as the evening shades prevail The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth. Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Seite 130 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Seite 224 - I received one morning," says Johnson, "a message from poor Goldsmith that he was in great distress, and, as it was not in his power to come to me, begging that I would come to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was dressed, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion: I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had a bottle of Madeira and a glass before...
Seite 130 - Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
Seite 206 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Seite 183 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel, by divine command, With rising tempests shakes a guilty land (Such as of late o'er pale Britannia passed), Calm and serene he drives the furious blast; And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
Seite 103 - Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances. Shakespeare...
Seite 182 - Shalum, just finished for the next day's Spectator, in his hand. Such a mark of national respect was due to the unsullied statesman, to the accomplished scholar, to the master of pure English eloquence, to the consummate painter of life and manners. It was due, above all, to the great satirist, who alone knew how to use ridicule without abusing it, who, without inflicting a wound, effected a great social reform, and who reconciled wit and virtue, after a long and disastrous separation, during which...
Seite 349 - Several Poems, compiled with great variety of wit and learning, full of delight...
Seite 136 - It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time, be so little read. As compositions, they deserve the attention of every man who wishes to become acquainted with the full power of the English language. They abound with passages compared with which the finest declamations \ of Burke sink into insignificance.