History of English Literature, Volume 4, Part 2Gebbie, 1897 - English literature |
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... beauty loose by this , truth and certainty are gained ; and no one , for instance , would blame our author for inserting the following demonstration in the life of Addison : “ He ( Pope ) asked Addison's advice . Addison said that the ...
... beauty loose by this , truth and certainty are gained ; and no one , for instance , would blame our author for inserting the following demonstration in the life of Addison : “ He ( Pope ) asked Addison's advice . Addison said that the ...
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... beauty , accord- ing to the old Greek song , is to woman , deceit is to the Ben- galee . Large promises , smooth excuses , elaborate tissues of cir- cumstantial falsehood , chicanery , perjury , forgery , are the weapons , offensive and ...
... beauty , accord- ing to the old Greek song , is to woman , deceit is to the Ben- galee . Large promises , smooth excuses , elaborate tissues of cir- cumstantial falsehood , chicanery , perjury , forgery , are the weapons , offensive and ...
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... beauty and purity of the English . We find , we confess , so great a charm in Mr. Southey's style that , even when he writes , nonsense , we generally read it with pleasure , except indeed when he tries to be droll . A more insufferable ...
... beauty and purity of the English . We find , we confess , so great a charm in Mr. Southey's style that , even when he writes , nonsense , we generally read it with pleasure , except indeed when he tries to be droll . A more insufferable ...
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... beauty and her glory ! " 1 These noble words come from the heart ; the fount is full , and though it flows , it never becomes dry . As soon as the writer speaks of a cause which he loves , as soon as he sees Liberty rise before him ...
... beauty and her glory ! " 1 These noble words come from the heart ; the fount is full , and though it flows , it never becomes dry . As soon as the writer speaks of a cause which he loves , as soon as he sees Liberty rise before him ...
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... beauty , looked with emotion on a scene surpassing all the imitations of the stage . There the historian of the Roman Empire thought of the days when Cicero pleaded the cause of Sicily against Verres , and when , before a senate which ...
... beauty , looked with emotion on a scene surpassing all the imitations of the stage . There the historian of the Roman Empire thought of the days when Cicero pleaded the cause of Sicily against Verres , and when , before a senate which ...
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Page 340 - Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.
Page 453 - The old order changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfils himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world Comfort thyself: what comfort is in me?
Page 443 - TEARS, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail, That brings our friends up from the underworld, Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge ; So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
Page 436 - As the husband is, the wife is: thou art mated with a clown, And the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down. He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.
Page 387 - If an instance in which the phenomenon under investigation occurs, and an instance in which it does not occur, have every circumstance in common save one, that one occurring only in the former; the circumstance in which alone the two instances differ is the effect, or the cause, or an indispensable part of the cause, of the phenomenon.
Page 432 - Lo ! sweeten'd with the summer light, The full-juiced apple, waxing over-mellow, Drops in a silent autumn night. All its allotted length of days, The flower ripens in its place, Ripens and fades, and falls, and hath no toil, Fast-rooted in the fruitful soil.
Page 453 - A cry that shiver'd to the tingling stars, And, as it were one voice, an agony Of lamentation, like a wind that shrills All night in a waste land, where no one comes, Or hath come, since the making of the world. Then murmur'd Arthur, ' Place me in the barge ;
Page 448 - I made them lay their hands in mine and swear •To reverence the King, as if he were Their conscience, and their conscience as their King, To break the heathen and uphold the Christ, To ride abroad redressing human wrongs, To speak no slander, no, nor listen to it, To honor his own word as if his God's, To lead sweet lives in purest chastity...
Page 230 - It has lengthened life ; it has mitigated pain ; it has extinguished diseases; it has increased the fertility of the soil; it has given new securities to the mariner; it has furnished new arms to the warrior ; it has spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges of form unknown to our fathers ; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth; it has lighted up the night with the...
Page 388 - If two or more instances in which the phenomenon occurs have only one circumstance in common, while two or more instances in which it does not occur have nothing in common save the absence of that circumstance, the circumstance in which alone the two sets of instances differ is the effect, or the cause, or an indispensable part of the cause, of the phenomenon.