Histoire de la littérature anglaise: Les contemporainsL. Hachette et cie, 1864 - English literature |
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... satires et des élégies . Il a la sensibilité fiévreuse d'une femme qui part d'un éclat de rire ou qui fond en larmes au choc imprévu du plus léger événement . Ce style passionné est d'une puissance extrême , et on peut lui attribuer la ...
... satires et des élégies . Il a la sensibilité fiévreuse d'une femme qui part d'un éclat de rire ou qui fond en larmes au choc imprévu du plus léger événement . Ce style passionné est d'une puissance extrême , et on peut lui attribuer la ...
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... satire est sœur de l'élégie si l'une plaide pour les opprimés , l'autre 1. " It ha ' shined upon me , " he said reverently , " in my pain and trouble down below . It ha ' shined into my mind . I ha ' lookn at ' t an thowt o ' thee ...
... satire est sœur de l'élégie si l'une plaide pour les opprimés , l'autre 1. " It ha ' shined upon me , " he said reverently , " in my pain and trouble down below . It ha ' shined into my mind . I ha ' lookn at ' t an thowt o ' thee ...
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... satire vi- vante de l'hypocrisie , et rien de plus . Si vous lui donnez le goût de l'eau - de - vie , ce sera ... satires que ceux d'une galerie de portraits . « Par la même raison , ces satires , quoique réu- nies , resteront ...
... satire vi- vante de l'hypocrisie , et rien de plus . Si vous lui donnez le goût de l'eau - de - vie , ce sera ... satires que ceux d'une galerie de portraits . « Par la même raison , ces satires , quoique réu- nies , resteront ...
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... satire une suite de fi- gures originales qui n'appartiennent qu'à l'Angleterre , qui , dessinées par votre main , formeront une galerie unique , et qui , avec l'image de votre génie , offriront celle de votre pays et de votre temps ...
... satire une suite de fi- gures originales qui n'appartiennent qu'à l'Angleterre , qui , dessinées par votre main , formeront une galerie unique , et qui , avec l'image de votre génie , offriront celle de votre pays et de votre temps ...
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... méprisent . Il fait des satires contre la société oppressive ; il fait des élégies sur la nature opprimée ; et son génie élégiaque , comme son génie satirique , rencontre à propos dans le monde anglais qui 52 LIVRE V. LES CONTEMPORAINS .
... méprisent . Il fait des satires contre la société oppressive ; il fait des élégies sur la nature opprimée ; et son génie élégiaque , comme son génie satirique , rencontre à propos dans le monde anglais qui 52 LIVRE V. LES CONTEMPORAINS .
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Page 453 - 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 203 - ... the inauguration of thirty kings, the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers, the hall where the eloquence of Strafford had for a moment awed and melted a victorious party inflamed with just resentment, the hall where Charles had confronted the High Court of Justice with the placid courage which has half redeemed his fame.
Page 197 - Such a spirit is Liberty. At times she takes the form of a hateful reptile. She grovels, she hisses, she stings. But woe to those who in disgust shall venture to crush her ! And happy are those who, having dared to receive her in her degraded and frightful shape, shall at length be rewarded by her in the time of her beauty and her glory ! There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces ; and that cure is freedom.
Page 316 - 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. They were the leaders of men, these great ones ; the modellers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do or to attain...
Page 173 - Then came those days, never to be recalled without a blush, the days of servitude without loyalty, and sensuality without love, of dwarfish talents and gigantic vices, the paradise of cold hearts and narrow minds, the golden age of the coward, the bigot, and the slave.
Page 467 - For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.
Page 203 - Heathfield, recently ennobled for his memorable defence of Gibraltar against the fleets and armies of France and Spain. The long procession was closed by the Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal of the realm, by the great dignitaries, and by the brothers and sons of the King. Last of all came the Prince of Wales, conspicuous by his fine person and noble bearing.
Page 464 - The great brand Made lightnings in the splendour of the moon, And flashing round and round, and whirl'd in an arch, Shot like a streamer of the northern morn, Seen where the moving isles of winter shock By night, with noises of the northern sea. So...
Page 203 - There were seen, side by side, the greatest painter and the greatest scholar of the age. The spectacle had allured Reynolds from that easel which has preserved to us the thoughtful foreheads of so many writers and statesmen, and the sweet smiles of so many noble matrons. It had induced Parr to suspend...
Page 204 - There too was she, the beautiful mother of a beautiful race, the Saint Cecilia, whose delicate features, lighted up by love and music, art has rescued from the common decay.