A Manual of English Prose Literature..Blackwood, 1881 - 548 pages |
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... living world . What casts doubt upon our conclusions is the fact , that so many writers are similitude - hunters , are very often on the watch for good similitudes ; and the conse- quent presumption that they utilise a large proportion ...
... living world . What casts doubt upon our conclusions is the fact , that so many writers are similitude - hunters , are very often on the watch for good similitudes ; and the conse- quent presumption that they utilise a large proportion ...
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... living among multitudes who owed to thee their daily bread . " In the matter of study , he was a law to himself . He told his tutor in that notable conversation that he was reading Paley ; but in point of fact he had been " reading and ...
... living among multitudes who owed to thee their daily bread . " In the matter of study , he was a law to himself . He told his tutor in that notable conversation that he was reading Paley ; but in point of fact he had been " reading and ...
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... living friends , he usually practises a delicate reserve , and veils his tenderness under the mask of humour . Yet even to this there are some exceptions , such as the touching address to his absent wife in the Opium Confessions . In ...
... living friends , he usually practises a delicate reserve , and veils his tenderness under the mask of humour . Yet even to this there are some exceptions , such as the touching address to his absent wife in the Opium Confessions . In ...
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... living persons , and then in such a way that none but very touchy subjects could take offence . Indeed , so playful and stingless is his humour , that many profess themselves unable to see anything to laugh at in his peculiar ...
... living persons , and then in such a way that none but very touchy subjects could take offence . Indeed , so playful and stingless is his humour , that many profess themselves unable to see anything to laugh at in his peculiar ...
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... living agents . This mannerism pervades all De Quincey's writings , and is so characteristic that we at once think of him when we find it appear- ing strongly in another writer . A few examples give but a faint impression compared with ...
... living agents . This mannerism pervades all De Quincey's writings , and is so characteristic that we at once think of him when we find it appear- ing strongly in another writer . A few examples give but a faint impression compared with ...
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Page 242 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested ; that is, some books are to be read only in parts ; others to be read, but not curiously ; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Page 365 - A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends, and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish...
Page 102 - The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
Page 358 - WE have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Page 306 - Lastly, I should not choose this manner of writing, wherein knowing myself inferior to myself, led by the genial power of nature to another task, I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand...
Page 284 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and...
Page 364 - I think it is agreed by all parties that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels, of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom a very great additional grievance ; and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap, and easy method of making these children sound useful members of the commonwealth, would deserve so well of the public as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation.
Page 200 - Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done, neither with so pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make the too much loved earth more lovely. Her world is brazen, the poets only deliver a golden.
Page 221 - ... rest himself ; if the Moon should wander from her beaten way, the times and seasons of the year blend themselves by disordered and confused mixture, the winds breathe out their last gasp, the clouds yield no rain, the earth be defeated of heavenly influence, the fruits of the earth pine away as children at the withered breasts of their mother no longer able to yield them relief; what would become of man himself, whom these things now do all serve ? See we not plainly that obedience of creatures...