English LiteratureJ. B. Lippincott Company, 1917 - 597 pages |
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... words , in my choice of bait , not by my own taste , but by what I conceive to be the taste of the fish . It is my belief that , of all the chapters in the book , the reader will find most satisfaction in those on Milton , Bunyan and ...
... words , in my choice of bait , not by my own taste , but by what I conceive to be the taste of the fish . It is my belief that , of all the chapters in the book , the reader will find most satisfaction in those on Milton , Bunyan and ...
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... words into novels and plays . He accom- plishes this by expressing in concrete form ideas that are abstract . Instead of writing a poem on wisdom , he carves a statue of Minerva ; instead of composing a treatise on the sin of ...
... words into novels and plays . He accom- plishes this by expressing in concrete form ideas that are abstract . Instead of writing a poem on wisdom , he carves a statue of Minerva ; instead of composing a treatise on the sin of ...
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... word " literature , " it should be noted here , comes from the Latin word litera , which means letter . " The French term belles lettres ( literally " beautiful letters " ) is used sometimes to designate litera- ture so far as it is an ...
... word " literature , " it should be noted here , comes from the Latin word litera , which means letter . " The French term belles lettres ( literally " beautiful letters " ) is used sometimes to designate litera- ture so far as it is an ...
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... words " father , " " mother , " " brother , " and " sister , " for example , are obviously like the Latin words pater , mater , frater , and soror ; the French words pere , mere , frère , and soeur ; and the German words Vater , Mutter ...
... words " father , " " mother , " " brother , " and " sister , " for example , are obviously like the Latin words pater , mater , frater , and soror ; the French words pere , mere , frère , and soeur ; and the German words Vater , Mutter ...
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... words . " wolf , " " bear , " and " birch " being common , on the other hand , to all of the Aryan languages , it was inferred that they did live in a cold climate . All Europe is named with words of Aryan origin . Asia is not so named ...
... words . " wolf , " " bear , " and " birch " being common , on the other hand , to all of the Aryan languages , it was inferred that they did live in a cold climate . All Europe is named with words of Aryan origin . Asia is not so named ...
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Page 376 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Page 377 - KNOW ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime...
Page 252 - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Page 129 - This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands, This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England...
Page 271 - Seven years, my Lord,' have now passed, since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour.
Page 138 - Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on ; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
Page 338 - A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food: For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Page 190 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Page 153 - Many were the wit-combats betwixt him and Ben Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances.
Page 231 - And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.