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... thoughts . The increasing neglect of the Latin is to be attributed to the secret but extensive spread of those doctrines which afterwards took consistency at the Reformation . Recent investiga- tions have assigned to one very curious ...
... thoughts . The increasing neglect of the Latin is to be attributed to the secret but extensive spread of those doctrines which afterwards took consistency at the Reformation . Recent investiga- tions have assigned to one very curious ...
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... thought fit to give to the world an English version of the same curious work . In his translation of Higden , Trevisa avoids what he calls “ the old and ancient Englische ; " and the same author gives a most terrifying description of ...
... thought fit to give to the world an English version of the same curious work . In his translation of Higden , Trevisa avoids what he calls “ the old and ancient Englische ; " and the same author gives a most terrifying description of ...
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... thought and expression in that splendid epoch illustrated by the contemporary names of Lord Byron , Scott , and Wordsworth . As to the elementary constitution of the English language as spoken and written in the present day , the ...
... thought and expression in that splendid epoch illustrated by the contemporary names of Lord Byron , Scott , and Wordsworth . As to the elementary constitution of the English language as spoken and written in the present day , the ...
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... thought , of which no trace is to be found in the comparatively flat original ; not to mention the terrible distinctness with which Chaucer enumerates Old Age's Senators , Pain , Distress , Sickness , Ire , and Melancholy ; and her grim ...
... thought , of which no trace is to be found in the comparatively flat original ; not to mention the terrible distinctness with which Chaucer enumerates Old Age's Senators , Pain , Distress , Sickness , Ire , and Melancholy ; and her grim ...
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... thoughts , seated , " to use the beautiful language of Sidney , " in a heart of courtesy . " Of this majestic period the brightest figure is that of Sir Philip Sidney , the most complete embodiment of all the graces and virtues . which ...
... thoughts , seated , " to use the beautiful language of Sidney , " in a heart of courtesy . " Of this majestic period the brightest figure is that of Sir Philip Sidney , the most complete embodiment of all the graces and virtues . which ...
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Page 243 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike...
Page 157 - With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced quire below, In service high and anthems clear, As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes.
Page 236 - I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives, to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.
Page 246 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Page 168 - Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model: or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept, or nature to be...
Page 191 - Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.
Page 243 - Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause ; While wits and templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise ; Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals ? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers...
Page 123 - You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!
Page 114 - Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone : regard his hellish fall, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise Only to wonder at unlawful things, Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits To practise more than heavenly power permits.
Page 268 - The successors of Charles V. may disdain their brethren of England: but the romance of 'Tom Jones,' that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the palace of the Escurial and the Imperial Eagle of Austria.