1639-1729Charles Wells Moulton H. Malkan, 1910 |
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Pàgina 19
... prose writings , is that of a self - confident aggressiveness without arrièrepensèes.- WARD , ADOLPHUS WILLIAM , 1893 , English Prose , ed . Craik , vol . II , p . 76 . The poem , [ " Elizabeth of Bohemia , " ] first appeared ( with ...
... prose writings , is that of a self - confident aggressiveness without arrièrepensèes.- WARD , ADOLPHUS WILLIAM , 1893 , English Prose , ed . Craik , vol . II , p . 76 . The poem , [ " Elizabeth of Bohemia , " ] first appeared ( with ...
Pàgina 61
... prose as well as in his verse true lyrical emotion and pathos ; he had , said Lamb , " poetry enough for anything ; " and while Nash's gaiety , true and hearty as it is , takes often and naturally a bitter satiri- cal turn , Dekker's ...
... prose as well as in his verse true lyrical emotion and pathos ; he had , said Lamb , " poetry enough for anything ; " and while Nash's gaiety , true and hearty as it is , takes often and naturally a bitter satiri- cal turn , Dekker's ...
Pàgina 79
... prose written consecu- tively , yet it might be a still more danger- ous challenge to produce any journalist in verse or prose of the present day who has written so much , and in whom the oc- casional flashes - the signs of poetical ...
... prose written consecu- tively , yet it might be a still more danger- ous challenge to produce any journalist in verse or prose of the present day who has written so much , and in whom the oc- casional flashes - the signs of poetical ...
Pàgina 97
... prose , in the sense of being most com- prehensible to modern ears , before Dry- den's ; the periods are well constructed , though not quite so abundant in antithesis as those of Bacon . - FLETCHER , C. R. L. , 1881 , The Development of ...
... prose , in the sense of being most com- prehensible to modern ears , before Dry- den's ; the periods are well constructed , though not quite so abundant in antithesis as those of Bacon . - FLETCHER , C. R. L. , 1881 , The Development of ...
Pàgina 98
... prose . - SAINTS- BURY , GEORGE , 1887 , History of Eliza- bethan Literature , p . 439 . Herbert is best known to modern read- ers by his autobiography . Childlike vanity is the chief characteristic of the narrative . He represents ...
... prose . - SAINTS- BURY , GEORGE , 1887 , History of Eliza- bethan Literature , p . 439 . Herbert is best known to modern read- ers by his autobiography . Childlike vanity is the chief characteristic of the narrative . He represents ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 286 - MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea : Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou...
Pàgina 269 - I modestly but freely told him ; and after some further discourse about it, I pleasantly said to him, " Thou hast said much here of Paradise Lost, but what hast thou to say of Paradise Found?
Pàgina 284 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Pàgina 411 - BARCLAY (ROBERT). An Apology for the True Christian Divinity AS THE SAME is HELD FORTH AND PREACHED BY THE PEOPLE, called in scorn QUAKERS...
Pàgina 235 - I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers: Of April, May, of June, and July flowers.
Pàgina 259 - The want of human interest is always felt. Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again.
Pàgina 279 - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases.
Pàgina 483 - True wit is nature to advantage drest; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well exprest.
Pàgina 494 - Whate'er he did was done with so much ease, In him alone 'twas natural to please : His motions all accompanied with grace ; And paradise was open'd in his face.
Pàgina 198 - For this reason, though he must always be thought a great poet, he is no longer esteemed a good writer; and for ten impressions, which his works have had in so many successive years, yet at present a hundred books are scarcely purchased once a twelvemonth; for, as my last Lord Rochester said, though somewhat profanely, Not being of God, he could not stand.