Among My Books, Том 1J. R. Osgood, 1877 - 380 стор. |
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... tion , long reading and digesting of those few good authors we have amongst us , the knowledge of men and manners , the freedom of habitudes and conversation with the best company of both sexes , and , in short , without wear- ing off ...
... tion , long reading and digesting of those few good authors we have amongst us , the knowledge of men and manners , the freedom of habitudes and conversation with the best company of both sexes , and , in short , without wear- ing off ...
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... tion ; Providence is engaged too deeply when the cause becomes so general . " In his " account " of the poem in a letter to Sir Robert Howard he says : " I have chosen to write my poem in quatrains or stanzas of four in al- ternate ...
... tion ; Providence is engaged too deeply when the cause becomes so general . " In his " account " of the poem in a letter to Sir Robert Howard he says : " I have chosen to write my poem in quatrains or stanzas of four in al- ternate ...
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... tion . He is an exception to the proverb , and is none the worse pleader that he is always pleading his own cause . The blunder about Chapman is of a kind into which his hasty temperament often betrayed him . He remem- bered that ...
... tion . He is an exception to the proverb , and is none the worse pleader that he is always pleading his own cause . The blunder about Chapman is of a kind into which his hasty temperament often betrayed him . He remem- bered that ...
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... For Mather , like a true pro- vincial , appropriates only the mannerism , and , as is usual in such cases , betrays all its weakness by the unconscious parody of exaggera- tion . here at least was poetry ! This is one of 38 DRYDEN .
... For Mather , like a true pro- vincial , appropriates only the mannerism , and , as is usual in such cases , betrays all its weakness by the unconscious parody of exaggera- tion . here at least was poetry ! This is one of 38 DRYDEN .
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... tion of his happier muse , we shall be inclined to think his example one of the strongest cases against the theory in question . He began his dramatic career , as usual , by rowing against the strong current of his nature , and pulled ...
... tion of his happier muse , we shall be inclined to think his example one of the strongest cases against the theory in question . He began his dramatic career , as usual , by rowing against the strong current of his nature , and pulled ...
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Сторінка 208 - If to do were as easy as to know what were^ good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Сторінка 7 - The lonely mountains o'er and the resounding shore a voice of weeping heard and loud lament ; from haunted spring and dale edged with poplar pale the parting Genius is with sighing sent; with flower-inwoven tresses torn the nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn.
Сторінка 264 - Your serpent of Egypt is bred, now, of your mud by the operation of your sun : so is your crocodile.
Сторінка 316 - In bigness to surpass Earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless...
Сторінка 258 - O good old man ; how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed...
Сторінка 181 - This castle hath a pleasant seat ; the air Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself Unto our gentle senses. BAN. This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
Сторінка 180 - When proud-pied April dressed in all his trim Hath put a spirit of youth in everything', That heavy Saturn laughed and leaped with him. Yet nor the lays of birds nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue Could make me any summer's story tell, Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew; Nor did I wonder at the...
Сторінка 205 - I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum.