Advice in the Pursuits of Literature, Containing Historical, Biographical, and Critical RemarksJ.K, Porter, 1832 - 296 Seiten |
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... wrote my lectures on American Literature , I had not con- templated this work ; and if I had , I must have given some slight account of English literature , in order to come properly to our own . When I first thought , last winter , of ...
... wrote my lectures on American Literature , I had not con- templated this work ; and if I had , I must have given some slight account of English literature , in order to come properly to our own . When I first thought , last winter , of ...
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... wrote some where be- tween the years 1135 and 1180. His works show more than any other of his age , how far the new language had advanced towards its present excellence . In the course of the time from 1200 to 1300 , the process of ...
... wrote some where be- tween the years 1135 and 1180. His works show more than any other of his age , how far the new language had advanced towards its present excellence . In the course of the time from 1200 to 1300 , the process of ...
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... wrote Don Juan , or probably when he had read only some of Chaucer's first pieces . If he had ever read him thoroughly , in his maturer years , he probably would have recalled his opinion ; most certainly if he were too proud to have ...
... wrote Don Juan , or probably when he had read only some of Chaucer's first pieces . If he had ever read him thoroughly , in his maturer years , he probably would have recalled his opinion ; most certainly if he were too proud to have ...
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... wrote , and therefore he should not be answer- able for them . The great talents of Dryden and Pope , in their versions of Chaucer , have , it must be confessed , given him some new charms ; but at the same time , we must say , that in ...
... wrote , and therefore he should not be answer- able for them . The great talents of Dryden and Pope , in their versions of Chaucer , have , it must be confessed , given him some new charms ; but at the same time , we must say , that in ...
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... wrote some works before Chaucer . He was a favorite with Edward II . He wrote much , and was considered the first moral poet of his age . He dis- ciplined the minds of his countrymen , for he was a philosopher , as well as a poet . His ...
... wrote some works before Chaucer . He was a favorite with Edward II . He wrote much , and was considered the first moral poet of his age . He dis- ciplined the minds of his countrymen , for he was a philosopher , as well as a poet . His ...
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Seite 252 - The oracles are dumb; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving: Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving: No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
Seite 69 - At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame; The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With Nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown : He raised a mortal to the skies: She drew an angel down.
Seite 61 - Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night ? I did not err, there does a sable cloud •Turn forth her silver lining on the night...
Seite 169 - Where on the ^Egean shore a city stands, Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil ; Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades. See there the olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long; There flowery hill Hymettus, with the sound Of bees...
Seite 64 - I saw them under a green mantling vine, That crawls along the side of yon small hill, Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots. Their port was more than human as they stood : I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i
Seite 156 - I do remember well the hour which burst My spirit's sleep: a fresh May-dawn it was, When I walked forth upon the glittering grass, And wept, I knew not why; until there rose From the near schoolroom, voices, that, alas! Were but one echo from a world of woes — The harsh and grating strife of tyrants and of foes.
Seite 52 - His nature is too noble for the world : He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, Or Jove for his power to thunder.
Seite 253 - In consecrated earth And on the holy hearth The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint ; In urns, and altars round A drear and dying sound Affrights the Flamens at their service quaint ; And the chill marble seems to sweat, While each peculiar Power foregoes his wonted seat.
Seite 69 - Music the fiercest grief can. charm, And Fate's severest rage disarm ; Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please : Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above. This the divine Cecilia found, And to her Maker's praise confin'd the sound. When the full organ joins the tuneful quire, Th...
Seite 101 - Thine, Freedom, thine the blessings pictur'd here, Thine are those charms that dazzle and endear ; Too blest indeed, were such without alloy, But foster'd even by Freedom ills annoy : That independence Britons prize too high, Keeps man from man, and breaks the social tie...