The Book of Authors: A Collection of Criticisms, Ana, Môts, Personal Descriptions, Etc. Etc. Etc. Wholly Referring to English Men of Letters in Every Age of English LiteratureF. Warne and Company, 1871 - 516 էջ |
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... imagination he breaks forth in the solemn tones and in the sombre majesty of Dante.- I. D'Israeli . The first English writer who can be read with approbation is William Langland , the author of " Piers Plowman's Vision , ” a severe ...
... imagination he breaks forth in the solemn tones and in the sombre majesty of Dante.- I. D'Israeli . The first English writer who can be read with approbation is William Langland , the author of " Piers Plowman's Vision , ” a severe ...
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... imagining that on this ground he should have an undoubted triumph over him , exclaimed , " Ah , Doctor Johnson ! what would you have said of Buchanan , had he been an English- man ? " " Why , sir , " said Johnson , after a little pause ...
... imagining that on this ground he should have an undoubted triumph over him , exclaimed , " Ah , Doctor Johnson ! what would you have said of Buchanan , had he been an English- man ? " " Why , sir , " said Johnson , after a little pause ...
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... imagination from wandering , insomuch that he seemed to study as he spake . The design of his sermons ( as indeed of all his discourses ) was to show reasons for what he spake ; and with these reasons such a kind of rhetoric as did ...
... imagination from wandering , insomuch that he seemed to study as he spake . The design of his sermons ( as indeed of all his discourses ) was to show reasons for what he spake ; and with these reasons such a kind of rhetoric as did ...
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... imagination , though both were deformed by the most unnatural affectation that ever disgraced a printed page . - Sir W. Scott . John Lyly was an ingenious scholar with some fancy ; but if poetry be the heightened expression of natural ...
... imagination , though both were deformed by the most unnatural affectation that ever disgraced a printed page . - Sir W. Scott . John Lyly was an ingenious scholar with some fancy ; but if poetry be the heightened expression of natural ...
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... imagination , and above all , in that exclusively poetical cast of feeling which discerns in everything what common minds do not perceive . -Hallam . The nobility of the Spensers has been illustrated and en- riched by the trophies of ...
... imagination , and above all , in that exclusively poetical cast of feeling which discerns in everything what common minds do not perceive . -Hallam . The nobility of the Spensers has been illustrated and en- riched by the trophies of ...
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The Book of Authors: A Collection of Criticisms, Ana, Môts, Personal ... William Clark Russell Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 18?? |
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Էջ 272 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much ; Who, born for the Universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Էջ 146 - 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...
Էջ 75 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Էջ 29 - 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.
Էջ 112 - He, who still wanting, though he lives on theft, Steals much, spends little, yet has nothing left: And he, who now to sense, now nonsense leaning, Means not, but blunders round about a meaning...
Էջ 147 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Էջ 453 - ... think of thee with many fears For what may be thy lot in future years. I thought of times when Pain might be thy guest, Lord of thy house and hospitality ; And Grief, uneasy lover ! never rest But when she sate within the touch of thee. O too industrious folly ! O vain and causeless melancholy ! Nature will either end thee quite : Or, lengthening out thy season of delight, Preserve for thee, by individual right, A young lamb's heart among the full-grown flocks.
Էջ 283 - Here Cumberland lies, having acted his parts, The Terence of England, the mender of hearts; A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.
Էջ 229 - Here lies David Garrick, describe me who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man ; As an actor, confess'd without rival to shine : As a wit, if not first, in the very first line : Yet, with talents like these, and an excellent heart, The man had his failings, a dupe to his art.
Էջ 170 - After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, Whether Pope was a poet ? otherwise than by asking in return, If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found...