Outlines of English Literature: By Thomas B. Shaw |
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... nature and significance of the vocables themselves , and also to the degree of primitiveness and antiquity of their ... natural and artificial , are expressed in English by words so evidently of Teutonic origin - nay , so slightly varied ...
... nature and significance of the vocables themselves , and also to the degree of primitiveness and antiquity of their ... natural and artificial , are expressed in English by words so evidently of Teutonic origin - nay , so slightly varied ...
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... nature ; profound knowledge of human life in the delineation of character ; and that all - embracing humanity of heart which makes him , as it makes the reader , sympathise with all God's creation , taking away from his humour every ...
... nature ; profound knowledge of human life in the delineation of character ; and that all - embracing humanity of heart which makes him , as it makes the reader , sympathise with all God's creation , taking away from his humour every ...
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... nature . Though we propose , in a future volume , to give such specimens and extracts of Chaucer as may suffice to ... natural music : he seems to omit no opportunity of describing the " doulx ramaige " of these feathered poets , whose ...
... nature . Though we propose , in a future volume , to give such specimens and extracts of Chaucer as may suffice to ... natural music : he seems to omit no opportunity of describing the " doulx ramaige " of these feathered poets , whose ...
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... nature than the mixture of pedantry and bashfulness in the manners of this anchoret of learning , and the tone of scntentious morality and formal politeness which marks his language . We now come to a " Serjeant of the Lawe , " a wise ...
... nature than the mixture of pedantry and bashfulness in the manners of this anchoret of learning , and the tone of scntentious morality and formal politeness which marks his language . We now come to a " Serjeant of the Lawe , " a wise ...
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... nature and truthfulness with which Chaucer has described the Sompnour . His face is fiery red , as che- rubim were painted , and so covered with pimples , spots , and disco- lorations , that neither mercury , sulphur , borax , nor any ...
... nature and truthfulness with which Chaucer has described the Sompnour . His face is fiery red , as che- rubim were painted , and so covered with pimples , spots , and disco- lorations , that neither mercury , sulphur , borax , nor any ...
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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.