A Manual of English Prose Literature: Biographical and Critical, Designed Mainly to Show Characteristics of StyleGinn, 1892 - 552 pages |
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... literary crotchets and affectations , is a comprehensive view of the principal arts and qualities , the principal means and ends , of style . It may be said that criticism on a uniform plan tends to destroy individuality ; that a book ...
... literary crotchets and affectations , is a comprehensive view of the principal arts and qualities , the principal means and ends , of style . It may be said that criticism on a uniform plan tends to destroy individuality ; that a book ...
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... literary knowledge and superior discernment who groan inwardly , some of them out- wardly , at the judgment of the multitude in the matter of sub- limity , pathos , and humour . And these apart , writers and their admirers separate ...
... literary knowledge and superior discernment who groan inwardly , some of them out- wardly , at the judgment of the multitude in the matter of sub- limity , pathos , and humour . And these apart , writers and their admirers separate ...
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... literary society . He had always been especially anxious to see Coleridge and Wordsworth . When he ran away from school , he would have gone to the Lake district , had he not scrupled to present himself in the character of a fugitive ...
... literary society . He had always been especially anxious to see Coleridge and Wordsworth . When he ran away from school , he would have gone to the Lake district , had he not scrupled to present himself in the character of a fugitive ...
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... literary exertion.1 His first production was the ' Confessions of an English Opium- Eater . ' This appeared in the ' London Magazine ' in the autumn of 1821 , and was reprinted in a separate form in the following ¡ year . From 1821 to ...
... literary exertion.1 His first production was the ' Confessions of an English Opium- Eater . ' This appeared in the ' London Magazine ' in the autumn of 1821 , and was reprinted in a separate form in the following ¡ year . From 1821 to ...
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... literary brotherhood . It was , as he says , " the most complete literary hoax that ever can have been perpetrated . " A German bookseller had published a novel in Ger- man under the title of Walladmoor , ' professing that it was a ...
... literary brotherhood . It was , as he says , " the most complete literary hoax that ever can have been perpetrated . " A German bookseller had published a novel in Ger- man under the title of Walladmoor , ' professing that it was a ...
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Page 370 - I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London that a young, healthy child well nursed is, at a year old, . a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.
Page 483 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Page 245 - Reading maketh a full man ; conference a ready man ; and writing an exact man ; and, therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory ; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit ; and if he read little, he need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Page 139 - 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; all things that we see standing accomplished in the world are properly the outer material result, the practical realisation and embodiment, of Thoughts that dwelt in the Great Men sent into the world: the soul of the whole world's history, it may justly be considered, were the history of these.
Page 287 - 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 inconstant — descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the...
Page 224 - Now, if nature should intermit her course, and leave altogether, though it were but for a while, the observation of her own laws; if those principal and mother elements of the world, whereof all things in this lower world are made, should lose the qualities which now they have ; if the frame of that heavenly arch erected over our heads should loosen and dissolve itself ; if celestial spheres should forget their wonted motions, and by irregular...
Page 382 - The knight seeing his habitation reduced to so small a compass, and himself in a manner shut out of his own house, upon the death of his mother ordered all the apartments to be flung open, and exorcised by his chaplain, who lay in every room one after another, and by that means dissipated the fears which had so long reigned in the family.
Page 286 - There is an acre sown with royal seed, the copy of the greatest change, from rich to naked, from ceiled roofs to arched coffins, from living like gods to die like men.
Page 224 - ... 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...
Page 370 - Therefore I think this caution was in itself altogether unnecessary, (which I have inserted only to prevent all possibility of cavilling) since every candid reader will easily understand my discourse to be intended only in defence of nominal Christianity ; the other having been for some time wholly laid aside by general consent, as utterly inconsistent with our present schemes of wealth and power.