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in general can not be the same with beauty , because there are very many things
in the highest degree agreeable that can in no sense be called beautiful .
Moderate heat , and savory food , and rest and exercise , are agreeable to the
body ...
in general can not be the same with beauty , because there are very many things
in the highest degree agreeable that can in no sense be called beautiful .
Moderate heat , and savory food , and rest and exercise , are agreeable to the
body ...
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... the greater part of mankind are susceptible ; and his taste will then deserve to
be called bad and false if he obtrude upon the public , as beautiful , objects that
are not likely to be associated in common minds with any interesting impressions
.
... the greater part of mankind are susceptible ; and his taste will then deserve to
be called bad and false if he obtrude upon the public , as beautiful , objects that
are not likely to be associated in common minds with any interesting impressions
.
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The habitual use of sentences in which all or most of the descriptive and limiting
elements precede those described and limited gives rise to what is called the
inverted style , — a title which is , however , by no means confined to this
structure ...
The habitual use of sentences in which all or most of the descriptive and limiting
elements precede those described and limited gives rise to what is called the
inverted style , — a title which is , however , by no means confined to this
structure ...
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Again : the old possessive case , “ The king , his crown , " conforms to the like
order of thought . Moreover , the fact that the indirect mode is called the natural
one implies that it is the one spontaneously 26 ENGLISH LITERATURE .
Again : the old possessive case , “ The king , his crown , " conforms to the like
order of thought . Moreover , the fact that the indirect mode is called the natural
one implies that it is the one spontaneously 26 ENGLISH LITERATURE .
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Let us begin with the figure called Synecdoche . The advantage sometimes
gained by putting a part for the whole is due to the more convenient or more
accurate presentation of the idea thus secured . If , instead of saying , “ A fleet of
ten ships ...
Let us begin with the figure called Synecdoche . The advantage sometimes
gained by putting a part for the whole is due to the more convenient or more
accurate presentation of the idea thus secured . If , instead of saying , “ A fleet of
ten ships ...
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Seite 40 - Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall, And breathless darkness, and the narrow house, Make thee to shudder, and grow sick at heart ; — Go forth, under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings, while from all around — Earth and her waters, and the depths of air — Comes a still voice— Yet a few days, and thee The all-beholding sun shall see no more In all his course ; nor yet in the cold ground, Where thy pale form was laid, with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy...
Seite 293 - Liberty first and Union afterwards ; " but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart — Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable 1 Mr.
Seite 296 - Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down 'Twas sad as sad could be; And we did speak only to break The silence of the sea! All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the Moon. Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water everywhere Nor any drop to drink.
Seite 101 - Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, — "Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore: Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!
Seite 459 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden-flower grows wild, There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
Seite 557 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested ; that is, some books are to be read only in parts ; others to be read, but not curiously ;• and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Seite 250 - That in this moment there is life and food For future years. And so I dare to hope, Though changed, no doubt, from what I was when first 1 came among these hills; when like a roe I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides Of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams, Wherever nature led: more like a man Flying from something that he dreads, than one Who sought the thing he loved. For nature then (The coarser pleasures of my boyish days, And their glad animal movements all gone by) To me was all in...
Seite 381 - The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble in their capitals; The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war ; These are thy toys ; and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar.
Seite 595 - When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man. You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition? Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And, sure, he is an honourable man.
Seite 468 - THE EPITAPH. Here rests his head upon the lap of earth, A youth, to fortune and to fame unknown ; Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth, And Melancholy marked him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompense as largely send ; He gave to misery (all he had) a tear, He gained from Heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend. No...
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| Titel | Literature of the English Language: Comprising Representative Selections from the Best Authors, Also Lists of Contemporaneous Writers and Their Principal Works |
| Autor/in | Ephraim Hunt |
| Verlag | Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor,, 1872 |
| Original von | University of California |
| Digitalisiert | 11. Dez. 2007 |
| Länge | 640 Seiten |
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