History of English Literature, Volume 3Henry Holt, 1876 - 502 pages |
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... matter of eloquence and rhetoric , and form what we now - a - days call commonplaces . They ar- ranged them in compartments ; methodically developed them ; made them obvious by grouping and symmetry ; disposed them regular processions ...
... matter of eloquence and rhetoric , and form what we now - a - days call commonplaces . They ar- ranged them in compartments ; methodically developed them ; made them obvious by grouping and symmetry ; disposed them regular processions ...
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... matter for his poem , three or four systems , deformed and attenuated , are amalgamated in his work . He boasts of having tempered them one with the other , and having " steered between the ex- tremes . " 3 The truth is , that he did ...
... matter for his poem , three or four systems , deformed and attenuated , are amalgamated in his work . He boasts of having tempered them one with the other , and having " steered between the ex- tremes . " 3 The truth is , that he did ...
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... matter which suits them , and that in this he frequently approaches La Bruyère ; that several of his portraits , those of Addison , Lord Hervey , Lord Wharton , the Duchess of Marlborough , are medals worthy of finding a place in the ...
... matter which suits them , and that in this he frequently approaches La Bruyère ; that several of his portraits , those of Addison , Lord Hervey , Lord Wharton , the Duchess of Marlborough , are medals worthy of finding a place in the ...
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... matter of propriety or ceremony ; there was an accepted and unalterable pattern ; they could not change it without indecency or ridicule ; to write , not according to the rules , especially in verse , effusively and naturally , would ...
... matter of propriety or ceremony ; there was an accepted and unalterable pattern ; they could not change it without indecency or ridicule ; to write , not according to the rules , especially in verse , effusively and naturally , would ...
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... matter . Artisans and towns- folk , enfranchised , enriched , having gained a competence , left the low depths where they had been buried in their narrow par- simony , ignorance , and routine ; they made their appearance on the stage ...
... matter . Artisans and towns- folk , enfranchised , enriched , having gained a competence , left the low depths where they had been buried in their narrow par- simony , ignorance , and routine ; they made their appearance on the stage ...
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Page 110 - STOOD in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand : I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me.
Page 394 - Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Full-faced above the valley stood the moon ; And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go ; And some thro' wavering lights and shadows broke, Rolling a slumbrous sheet of foam below.
Page 14 - This day, black Omens threat the brightest Fair, That e'er deserv'da watchful spirit's care; Some dire disaster, or by force, or slight; But what, or where, the fates have wrapt in night. Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law, Or some frail China jar receive a flaw; Or stain her honour or her new brocade; Forget her pray'rs, or miss a masquerade; Or lose her heart, or necklace, at a ball; Or whether Heav'n has doom'd that Shock must fall.
Page 397 - 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 364 - 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 22 - Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great ; With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between ; in doubt to act or rest ; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast...
Page 409 - But now farewell. I am going a long way With these thou seest — if indeed I go (For all my mind is clouded with a doubt) — To the island-valley of Avilion ; Where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow, Nor ever wind blows loudly ; but it lies Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard-lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.
Page 408 - 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 93 - Then the pied windflowers and the tulip tall, And narcissi, the fairest among them all, Who gaze on their eyes in the stream's recess, Till they die of their own dear loveliness...
Page 109 - Yet must I think less wildly: I have thought Too long and darkly, till my brain became, In its own eddy boiling and o'erwrought, A whirling gulf of phantasy and flame: And thus, untaught in youth my heart to tame, My springs of life were poison'd.