Novels and Novelists from Elizabeth to Victoria, Հատոր 1Hurst and Blackett, 1858 |
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... Poor novels ! you have ever had the schoolmasters against you . Ascham railed at Boccacio ; and only the other day Dr. Arnold poured the fire of his artillery on Charles Dickens . But the " Decameron " has outlived the assault , and is ...
... Poor novels ! you have ever had the schoolmasters against you . Ascham railed at Boccacio ; and only the other day Dr. Arnold poured the fire of his artillery on Charles Dickens . But the " Decameron " has outlived the assault , and is ...
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... Poor novels ! you have ever had the schoolmasters against you . Ascham railed at Boccacio ; and only the other day Dr. Arnold poured the fire of his artillery on Charles Dickens . But the “ Decameron ” has outlived the assault , and is ...
... Poor novels ! you have ever had the schoolmasters against you . Ascham railed at Boccacio ; and only the other day Dr. Arnold poured the fire of his artillery on Charles Dickens . But the “ Decameron ” has outlived the assault , and is ...
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... poor wretches who , without enough moral hardihood to keep out of the ways of error , have too much conscience to be able to get anything like a handsome measure of enjoyment out of sin . The authors , by profession , of the Elizabethan ...
... poor wretches who , without enough moral hardihood to keep out of the ways of error , have too much conscience to be able to get anything like a handsome measure of enjoyment out of sin . The authors , by profession , of the Elizabethan ...
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... poor despis'd ; For when the life with food is not suffic'd , What thoughts of love , what motion of delight , What pleasance can proceed from such a wight ? Witness my want , the murderer of my wit , My ravish'd sense of wonted fury ...
... poor despis'd ; For when the life with food is not suffic'd , What thoughts of love , what motion of delight , What pleasance can proceed from such a wight ? Witness my want , the murderer of my wit , My ravish'd sense of wonted fury ...
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... poor perplexed lovers into such a dumpe , that they stoode as the pictures that Perseus with his shield turned into stones . Francesco pre- sently with a sharpe insight entered into the cause , and perceived it was the drift of the old ...
... poor perplexed lovers into such a dumpe , that they stoode as the pictures that Perseus with his shield turned into stones . Francesco pre- sently with a sharpe insight entered into the cause , and perceived it was the drift of the old ...
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Novels and Novelists: From Elizabeth to Victoria, Հատոր 2 John Cordy Jeaffreson Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1858 |
Novels and Novelists: From Elizabeth to Victoria, Հատոր 1 John Cordy Jeaffreson Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1858 |
Novels and Novelists: From Elizabeth to Victoria, Հատոր 1 John Cordy Jeaffreson Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1858 |
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Էջ 81 - A True Relation of the Apparition of one Mrs. Veal, the next Day after her Death, to one Mrs Bargrave, at Canterbury, the 8th of September 1705...
Էջ 62 - But, during the latter part of the seventeenth century, the culture of the female mind seems to have been almost entirely neglected. If a damsel had the least smattering of literature, she was regarded as a prodigy. Ladies highly born, highly bred, and naturally...
Էջ 154 - Thy towering spirit now is broke, Thy neck is bended to the yoke. What foreign arms could never quell, By civil rage and rancour fell. The rural pipe and merry lay No more shall cheer the happy day : No social scenes of gay delight Beguile the dreary winter night : No strains, but those of sorrow flow, And nought be heard but sounds of woe, While the pale phantoms of the slain Glide nightly o'er the silent plain.
Էջ 215 - I'll not hurt a hair of thy head: Go, says he, lifting up the sash, and...
Էջ 199 - Talking of widows — pray, Eliza, if ever you are such, do not think of giving yourself to some wealthy Nabob, because I design to marry you myself. My wife cannot live long, and I know not the woman I should like so well for her substitute as yourself. 'Tis true I am ninety-five in constitution, and you but twenty-five ; but what I want in youth, I will make up in wit and good-humour.
Էջ 202 - I come off conqueror my spirits are fled 'tis a bad omen do not weep my dear Lady — your tears are too precious to shed for me bottle them up, and may the cork never be drawn. Dearest, kindest, gentlest, and best of women ! may health, peace, and happiness prove your handmaids. If I die, cherish the remembrance of me, and forget the follies which you so often condemn'd which my heart, not my head betray'd me into.
Էջ 139 - Will you not allow, Sir, that he draws very natural pictures of human life?" JOHNSON : " Why, Sir, it is of very low life. Richardson used to say, that had he not known who Fielding was, he should have believed he was an ostler. Sir, there is more knowledge of the heart in one letter of Richardson's, than in all 'Tom Jones.' I, indeed, never read 'Joseph Andrews.
Էջ 9 - How am I crost, or whence is this curse ? Even from hence, the men that should employ such as I am, are enamoured of their own wits...
Էջ 47 - Hill; it stood on a vast rock of white marble, at the foot of which the river ran a vast depth down, and not to be descended on that side; the little waves still dashing and washing the foot of this rock, made the softest murmurs and purlings in the world...
Էջ 71 - He is a middle-sized, spare man, about forty years old, of a brown complexion and darkbrown coloured hair, but wears a wig ; a hooked nose, a sharp chin, grey eyes, and a large mole near his mouth...