Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth CenturyRaymond Macdonald Alden Houghton Mifflin, 1911 - 724 pàgines |
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Pàgina iv
... reader may be presumed to have been studying . The wise teacher or student will surely seek , where it is possible , to make one writer illus- trate another , and to find examples of contemporary judg- ments and aims which will make ...
... reader may be presumed to have been studying . The wise teacher or student will surely seek , where it is possible , to make one writer illus- trate another , and to find examples of contemporary judg- ments and aims which will make ...
Pàgina v
... reader should save the time of the hearer . Omissions have been indicated scrupulously , and in most cases it is possible , by noting these indications , to discover whether any selection includes the beginning and the end of the ...
... reader should save the time of the hearer . Omissions have been indicated scrupulously , and in most cases it is possible , by noting these indications , to discover whether any selection includes the beginning and the end of the ...
Pàgina vi
... . These were some of the characteris- tic ills of the period . Perhaps , then , when the reader is next told that they are the characteristic ills of the early twentieth century , he may suspect that they were equally so vi PREFACE.
... . These were some of the characteris- tic ills of the period . Perhaps , then , when the reader is next told that they are the characteristic ills of the early twentieth century , he may suspect that they were equally so vi PREFACE.
Pàgina vii
... reader , his respect for the person and works of Samuel Johnson . The space here accorded him is by no means due to mere tradition or literary orthodoxy , but to a genuine belief in the lasting worth of what he had to say . Granted ...
... reader , his respect for the person and works of Samuel Johnson . The space here accorded him is by no means due to mere tradition or literary orthodoxy , but to a genuine belief in the lasting worth of what he had to say . Granted ...
Pàgina 3
... reader both in expres- sion and understanding . In short , there should be room in this society for neither clergyman , physician , or lawyer . Not that I would put an af- front upon the learning of any of those honorable employments ...
... reader both in expres- sion and understanding . In short , there should be room in this society for neither clergyman , physician , or lawyer . Not that I would put an af- front upon the learning of any of those honorable employments ...
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Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century Raymond Macdonald Alden Visualització completa - 1911 |
Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century Raymond Macdonald Alden Visualització completa - 1911 |
Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century Raymond Macdonald Alden Visualització completa - 1911 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 588 - ... little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
Pàgina 636 - Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help ? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind: but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
Pàgina 545 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Pàgina 46 - Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night ; nor for the arrow that flieth by day ; nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness ; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noon-day.
Pàgina 546 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden.
Pàgina 362 - Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow...
Pàgina 370 - Shakespeare is, above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life. His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world; by the peculiarities of studies or professions, which can operate but upon small numbers; or by the accidents of transient fashions or temporary opinions: they are the genuine progeny of common humanity, such as the world will...
Pàgina 46 - I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
Pàgina 193 - As I looked upon him he applied it to his lips, and began to play upon it. The sound of it was exceeding sweet, and wrought into a variety of tunes that were inexpressibly melodious, and altogether different from any thing I had ever heard. They put me in mind of those heavenly airs that are played to the departed souls of good men upon their first arrival in Paradise, to wear out the impressions of their last agonies, and qualify them for the pleasures of that happy place.
Pàgina 406 - Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden.