English Essays: From Sir Philip Sidney to MacaulayCharles W P.F. Collier, 1910 - 421 Seiten |
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... character and his abilities . During the years between 1578 and 1585 he was chiefly at court and in Parliament , and to this period belong most of his writings . In 1585 he left England to assume the office of Governor of Flushing , and ...
... character and his abilities . During the years between 1578 and 1585 he was chiefly at court and in Parliament , and to this period belong most of his writings . In 1585 he left England to assume the office of Governor of Flushing , and ...
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... character on men and books . The volume has little or no structure or arrangement , but is impressed everywhere with the stamp of his vigorous personality . The following passages on Bacon and Shakespeare are notable as a personal ...
... character on men and books . The volume has little or no structure or arrangement , but is impressed everywhere with the stamp of his vigorous personality . The following passages on Bacon and Shakespeare are notable as a personal ...
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... character of the person departed in Greek or Hebrew , and by that means are not understood once in a twelvemonth . In the poetical quar- ter , I found there were poets who had no monuments , and monuments which had no poets . I observed ...
... character of the person departed in Greek or Hebrew , and by that means are not understood once in a twelvemonth . In the poetical quar- ter , I found there were poets who had no monuments , and monuments which had no poets . I observed ...
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... character of that plain gallant man , he is represented on his tomb by the figure of a beau , dressed in a long periwig , and reposing himself upon velvet cushions under a canopy of state . The inscription is answerable to the monument ...
... character of that plain gallant man , he is represented on his tomb by the figure of a beau , dressed in a long periwig , and reposing himself upon velvet cushions under a canopy of state . The inscription is answerable to the monument ...
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... characters composing it . The Spectator himself was Addi- son's creation , and Addison also elaborated Sir Roger , though Steele originated him . Whatever may be the respective claims of Addison and Steele to the credit for the success ...
... characters composing it . The Spectator himself was Addi- son's creation , and Addison also elaborated Sir Roger , though Steele originated him . Whatever may be the respective claims of Addison and Steele to the credit for the success ...
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abuse Addison admiration Æsop ancient Aristotle beauty BEN JONSON called Cato character Church Church of England common conversation Crantor death delight divine doth effect enemy England essay ESTHER JOHNSON evil excellent expression eyes faculty friends genius give hath HC VOL Hesiod honor human imagination imitation Italy Juba Julius Cæsar kind King knowledge ladies language learning less Levana live Livy Lord Machiavelli manners matter measure ment mind moral nation nature never object observed opinion pain passion person Petrarch philosopher Pindar Plato play pleasure Plutarch poem poesy poetical poetry poets political Pope praise principles reason religion seems Sempronius sense sentiment Shakespeare Shakspere shew speak Spectator spirit Steele supposed Syphax taste Tatler things thought tion tragedy true truly truth Ulubrae verse virtue Whig whole words writings
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Seite 315 - Desiring this man's art and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate...
Seite 364 - Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
Seite 69 - 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 anything I had ever heard.
Seite 51 - Sufflaminandus erat," as Augustus said of Haterius. His wit was in his own power; would the rule of it had been so, too! Many times he fell into those things, could not escape laughter, as when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him, "Ca:sar, thou dost me wrong.
Seite 18 - ... he cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well enchanting skill of music; and with a tale forsooth he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.
Seite 6 - Poesy, therefore, is an art of imitation, for so Aristotle termeth it in his word Mimesis, that is to say, a representing, counterfeiting, or figuring forth: to speak metaphorically, a speaking picture : with this end, to teach and delight; of this have been three several kinds.
Seite 203 - What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetick * ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Seite 70 - Bridge, said I, standing in the Midst of the Tide. The Bridge thou seest, said he, is human Life, consider it attentively. Upon a more leisurely Survey of it, I found that it consisted of threescore and ten entire Arches, with several broken Arches, which added to those that were entire, made up the Number about an hundred.
Seite 8 - ... the highest end of the mistress-knowledge, by the Greeks called arckitektonike, 360 which stands, as I think, in the knowledge of a man's self, in the ethic and politic consideration, with the end of well-doing, and not of well-knowing only...
Seite 23 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet; and yet it is sung but by some blind crowder, with no rougher voice than rude style; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivil age, what would it work, trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar?