Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of British and American Authors, with Specimens of Their Writings, Volume 3Robert Chambers Amer. Book Exchange, 1879 |
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... Style of Dramatic Dia- logue ......... 88 FIFTH PERIOD . On Lampoons . Translations of the Ancient Poets .. 89 Spenser and Milton .... History and Biography . 92 QUEEN ANNE , AND GEORGE I. 93 Sir William Temple ( 1628-1699 ) . 96 POETS ...
... Style of Dramatic Dia- logue ......... 88 FIFTH PERIOD . On Lampoons . Translations of the Ancient Poets .. 89 Spenser and Milton .... History and Biography . 92 QUEEN ANNE , AND GEORGE I. 93 Sir William Temple ( 1628-1699 ) . 96 POETS ...
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... style , and the knowledge of human nature which they display . True Wisdom . That is the truest wisdom of a man which doth most conduce to the happiness of life . For wisdom as it refers to action lies in the proposal of a right end ...
... style , and the knowledge of human nature which they display . True Wisdom . That is the truest wisdom of a man which doth most conduce to the happiness of life . For wisdom as it refers to action lies in the proposal of a right end ...
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... style of Penn's works is often harsh and incorrect , but his language is copious and his enthusiasm occasionally renders him forcible and impressive . The first of the subjoined specimens is extracted from his No Cross , no Crown ...
... style of Penn's works is often harsh and incorrect , but his language is copious and his enthusiasm occasionally renders him forcible and impressive . The first of the subjoined specimens is extracted from his No Cross , no Crown ...
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... style , and for the pathos of its allusion to his majesty's own early troubles , as a reason for his ex- tending mercy and favour to the persecuted Quakers . ' Thou hast tasted , ' says he , ' of prosperity and adversity ; thou knowest ...
... style , and for the pathos of its allusion to his majesty's own early troubles , as a reason for his ex- tending mercy and favour to the persecuted Quakers . ' Thou hast tasted , ' says he , ' of prosperity and adversity ; thou knowest ...
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... style , not a manufactured one ; and what a difference is there between its homeliness and the flippant vulgarity of the Roger L'Estrange and Tom Brown school ! If it is not a well of English undefiled to which the poet as well as the ...
... style , not a manufactured one ; and what a difference is there between its homeliness and the flippant vulgarity of the Roger L'Estrange and Tom Brown school ! If it is not a well of English undefiled to which the poet as well as the ...
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Expressions et termes fréquents
Addison admired afterwards Allan Ramsay Ambrose Philips ancient appear beauty Ben Jonson blessed body called Cato character Charles Charles II church Colley Cibber court death delight Derry discourse divine Dryden Dunciad Earl earth English envy Essay eyes fair fame father fortune frae give grace hand happy hath hear heart heaven honour hope humour Iliad Isaac Newton JONATHAN SWIFT king lady learned letters live look Lord Mammon mind moral nature never night numbers o'er Oroonoko Ovid passion persons PETER HEYLIN pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope praise prince published reason rich rise satire says shew Sir William Temple smile soul speak spirit style sweet Swift tell Temple thee things thou thought tion truth Twas verse virtue Whigs whilst wife wine write wrote
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Page 315 - There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts. " Not such as Europe breeds in her decay ; Such as she bred when fresh and young, When heavenly flame did animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung. " Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Page 397 - Of man's miraculous mistakes this bears The palm, ' That all men are about to live, For ever on the brink of being born.' All pay themselves the compliment to think They one day shall not drivel : and their pride On this reversion takes up ready praise ; At least, their own ; their future selves applaud How excellent that life they ne'er will lead.
Page 299 - Great in the earth as in the ethereal frame, Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees : Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Page 193 - 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...
Page 87 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously but luckily : when he describes anything you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Page 290 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Page 182 - Aonian maids, Delight no more — O Thou my voice inspire Who touched Isaiah's hallowed lips with fire ! . Rapt into future times, the bard begun : A Virgin shall conceive, a Virgin bear a Son ! From Jesse's...
Page 283 - Cast thy eyes eastward, said he, and tell me what thou seest. I see, said I, a huge valley, and a prodigious tide of water rolling through it. The valley that thou seest, said he, is the vale of misery ; and the tide of water that thou seest, is part of the great tide of eternity. What is the reason...
Page 395 - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the, knell of my departed hours : Where are they? With the years beyond the flood.
Page 194 - Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies. His wit all seesaw, between that and this, Now high, now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile antithesis.