English Essays: From Sir Philip Sidney to MacaulayCharles W P.F. Collier, 1910 - 421 Seiten |
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... are notable as a personal estimate of these two giants by the man who , perhaps , approached them in the field of intellect more closely than any other contemporary . I BEN JONSON ON SHAKESPEARE DE SHAKESPEARE NOSTRAT [ I 58.
... are notable as a personal estimate of these two giants by the man who , perhaps , approached them in the field of intellect more closely than any other contemporary . I BEN JONSON ON SHAKESPEARE DE SHAKESPEARE NOSTRAT [ I 58.
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... perhaps , with diligence , in a year or two : and the continual succession of scholars , upon a moderate taxation for their diet , lodging and learning , would be a sufficient constant revenue for maintenance of the house and the ...
... perhaps , with diligence , in a year or two : and the continual succession of scholars , upon a moderate taxation for their diet , lodging and learning , would be a sufficient constant revenue for maintenance of the house and the ...
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... perhaps buried in the plains of Blenheim , or in the bosom of the ocean . I could not but be very much delighted with several mod- ern epitaphs , which are written with great elegance of ex- pression and justness of thought , and ...
... perhaps buried in the plains of Blenheim , or in the bosom of the ocean . I could not but be very much delighted with several mod- ern epitaphs , which are written with great elegance of ex- pression and justness of thought , and ...
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... perhaps proveth at last a story the company hath heard fifty times before ; or , at best , some insipid adventure of the relater . Another general fault in conversation is , that of those who affect to talk of themselves : Some ...
... perhaps proveth at last a story the company hath heard fifty times before ; or , at best , some insipid adventure of the relater . Another general fault in conversation is , that of those who affect to talk of themselves : Some ...
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... perhaps at his return , as much a stranger in his own ; and after all , they are easier to be remembered or forgotten than faces or names . Indeed , among the many impertinencies that superficial young men bring with them from abroad ...
... perhaps at his return , as much a stranger in his own ; and after all , they are easier to be remembered or forgotten than faces or names . Indeed , among the many impertinencies that superficial young men bring with them from abroad ...
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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?