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Page 55
... mind . The Monk is a gallant , richly - dressed , and pleasure - loving sportsman , caring not a straw for the obsolete strictness of the musty rule of his order . His sleeves are edged with rich fur , his hood fastened under his chin ...
... mind . The Monk is a gallant , richly - dressed , and pleasure - loving sportsman , caring not a straw for the obsolete strictness of the musty rule of his order . His sleeves are edged with rich fur , his hood fastened under his chin ...
Page 60
... ever began this poem without finishing it , or ever read it once without returning to it a second time . The effect upon the mind is like that of some gorgeous tissue , gold - inwoven 60 [ CHAP . II . OUTLINES OF GENERAL LITERATURE .
... ever began this poem without finishing it , or ever read it once without returning to it a second time . The effect upon the mind is like that of some gorgeous tissue , gold - inwoven 60 [ CHAP . II . OUTLINES OF GENERAL LITERATURE .
Page 65
... minds as those of Eschylus , Sophocles , and Euripides , that has made us assume the age of Pericles as the culminating point of Athenian literature . No ! the defeat of the Persians can- not but be considered as having a great deal to ...
... minds as those of Eschylus , Sophocles , and Euripides , that has made us assume the age of Pericles as the culminating point of Athenian literature . No ! the defeat of the Persians can- not but be considered as having a great deal to ...
Page 67
... mind . The throne of Poland , to which he was elected , could hardly have conferred ad- ditional splendour upon so consummate a character ; and we almost approve of the jealous admiration of Elizabeth , who prevented him from mounting ...
... mind . The throne of Poland , to which he was elected , could hardly have conferred ad- ditional splendour upon so consummate a character ; and we almost approve of the jealous admiration of Elizabeth , who prevented him from mounting ...
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... mind , a measure of a popular tendency , he was weak enough , on the first intimation of his independence having displeased the sovereign , to renounce , with shameless facility , the convictions which he had just before been asserting ...
... mind , a measure of a popular tendency , he was weak enough , on the first intimation of his independence having displeased the sovereign , to renounce , with shameless facility , the convictions which he had just before been asserting ...
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Page 299 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
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 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 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 170 - 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 136 - Invest me in my motley ; give me leave To speak my mind, and I will through and through Cleanse the foul body of the infected world, If they will patiently receive my medicine.
Page 146 - To whom the good man replied, "My dear George, if Saints have usually a double share in the miseries of this life, I, that am none, ought not to repine at what my wise Creator hath appointed for me: but labour — as indeed -I do daily — to submit mine to his will, and possess my soul in patience and peace.
Page 125 - 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 216 - Though mark'd by none but quick, poetic eyes : (So Rome's great founder to the heavens withdrew, To Proculus alone confess'd in view :) A sudden star, it shot through liquid air, And drew behind a radiant trail of hair.
Page 193 - 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.