A Manual of English Prose Literature..Blackwood, 1881 - 548 էջ |
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... been taken to make them accurate . The biographies of the three selected modern men will be found to be more complete than any hitherto published . January 25 , 1872 . PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION . THE alterations that I have viii PREFACE .
... been taken to make them accurate . The biographies of the three selected modern men will be found to be more complete than any hitherto published . January 25 , 1872 . PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION . THE alterations that I have viii PREFACE .
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... published two volumes on the Life and Writ- ings of De Quincey . My sketches of Macaulay and De Quincey can , in consequence , no longer pretend to be more complete than any hitherto published . " 66 December 22 , 1880 . CONTENTS ...
... published two volumes on the Life and Writ- ings of De Quincey . My sketches of Macaulay and De Quincey can , in consequence , no longer pretend to be more complete than any hitherto published . " 66 December 22 , 1880 . CONTENTS ...
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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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... publishers generously made him a sharer in the profits of the publication , and he ultimately gave his assistance to the work of collecting the scattered papers . The first English edition , " in fourteen volumes crown 8vo , was published ...
... publishers generously made him a sharer in the profits of the publication , and he ultimately gave his assistance to the work of collecting the scattered papers . The first English edition , " in fourteen volumes crown 8vo , was published ...
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... book so well know as the Opium Confessions , and now published at sixpence . One only will be given , and that as having already been alluded to . The reader will notice that our author is wholly engrossed with his suffering and his ...
... book so well know as the Opium Confessions , and now published at sixpence . One only will be given , and that as having already been alluded to . The reader will notice that our author is wholly engrossed with his suffering and his ...
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A Manual of English Prose Literature: Biographical and Critical, Designed ... William Minto Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1895 |
A Manual of English Prose Literature: Biographical and Critical, Designed ... William Minto Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1895 |
A Manual of English Prose Literature: Biographical and Critical, Designed ... William Minto Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1901 |
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Էջ 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.
Էջ 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...
Էջ 102 - The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
Էջ 358 - WE have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Էջ 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...
Էջ 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...
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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...