Mixed EssaysSmith, Elder, 1880 - 347 pàgines |
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Pàgina 270 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Pàgina 65 - Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
Pàgina 210 - A lily of a day, Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light.
Pàgina 77 - We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too.
Pàgina 25 - Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to.
Pàgina 260 - Lost is an epic, but a theological epic ; and the\ theology of the poem is made up of the favourite dogmas of the Puritans, — the Fall, justification, God's sovereign decrees.
Pàgina 271 - Homer, to have written indecent things of the gods ; only this my mind gave me, that every free and gentle spirit, without that oath, ought to be born a knight, nor needed to expect the gilt spur, or the laying of a sword upon his shoulder to stir him up both by his counsel and his arm, to secure and protect the weakness of any attempted chastity.
Pàgina 252 - What we know of Milton's character in domestic relations is, that he was severe and arbitrary. His family consisted of women ; and there appears in his books something like a Turkish contempt of females, as subordinate and inferior beings.
Pàgina 100 - And thus they are thrown back upon themselves — upon a defective type of religion, a narrow range of intellect and knowledge, a stunted sense of beauty, a low standard of manners.
Pàgina 270 - Next (for hear me out now, readers), that I may tell ye whither my younger feet wandered ; I betook me among those lofty fables and romances, which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious kings, and from hence had in renown over all Christendom.