Philosophy of English Literature: A Course of Lectures Delivered in the Lowell InstituteG. P. Putnam, 1893 - 318 páginas |
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Addison æsthetical artistic beauty became belonged Bible bold Canterbury Tales cast Chaucer chief chivalry circle of force civil classical clergy composition conflict constitution critical drama Dryden elements Elizabethan Elizabethan age England English character English literature excellence expressional fact feel fourteenth century French fruits gained gathered gave genius give growth hold impulse influence initiative period intellectual invention irritation Italian Italy knight labor language later Latin laws less liberty literary lyric poetry ment Milton mind minstrel moral national character native nature Norman passed passion Petrarch philosophy poem poet poetic poetry political Pope popular portion possession prose Puritans rank reform rehearsal reign religion religious ribaldry romances satire Saxon sense senti sentiment Shakespeare social society speech Spenser spirit strength superior sympathy taste temper tendency theme Thomas à Becket thought tion truth tury vigorous virtue Wicliffe William of Malmsbury writers wrought
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Página 210 - Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from EXPERIENCE; in that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives itself.
Página 112 - It was said of Socrates, that he brought Philosophy down from Heaven to inhabit among Men ; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-tables, and in Coffee-houses.
Página 169 - Blessings be with them and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves and nobler cares — ' The poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays!
Página 210 - Our observation employed either, about external sensible objects, or about the internal operations of our minds perceived and reflected on by ourselves, is that which supplies our understandings with all the materials of thinking. These two are the fountains of knowledge, from whence all the ideas we have, or can naturally have, do spring.
Página 139 - Sir, he was a scoundrel, and a coward : a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality ; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger after his death...
Página 175 - It is an experiment on the temper of the public mind, as to how far a thirst for a happier condition of moral and political society survives, among the enlightened and refined, the tempests which have shaken the age in which we live.
Página 39 - Commons, and from thence derives itself to a gallant bravery and well grounded contempt of their enemies, as if there were no small number of as great spirits among us as his was who when Rome was nigh...
Página 154 - Strophe. • Who shall awake the Spartan fife, And call in solemn sounds to life, The youths, whose locks divinely spreading, Like vernal hyacinths in sullen hue, .At once the breath of fear and virtue shedding, Applauding freedom loved of old to view...
Página 39 - First, when a city shall be as it were besieged and blocked about, her navigable river infested, inroads and incursions round, defiance and battle oft rumoured to be marching up, even to her walls and suburb trenches...
Página 103 - Philosophy, that leaned on heaven before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more. Physic of metaphysic begs defence, And metaphysic calls for aid on sense!