English EssaysBlackie & son, limited, 1896 - 257 стор. |
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Сторінка xxv
... genius , Steele possessed but a slender stock . His talent lay not in elaboration , but in striking out disconnected happy thoughts , and for this purpose the earlier and looser form of the Tatler was best adapted . Of his sustained ...
... genius , Steele possessed but a slender stock . His talent lay not in elaboration , but in striking out disconnected happy thoughts , and for this purpose the earlier and looser form of the Tatler was best adapted . Of his sustained ...
Сторінка xxxviii
... genius of the language ; and however great their diversity , all essays henceforth could trace their lineage back to the reign of Queen Anne . Defoe , whose meteoric incursions into the domain of letters during a period of forty years ...
... genius of the language ; and however great their diversity , all essays henceforth could trace their lineage back to the reign of Queen Anne . Defoe , whose meteoric incursions into the domain of letters during a period of forty years ...
Сторінка xlii
... genius employed in little things appears , to use the simile of Longinus , like the sun in his evening declination : he remits his splendour but retains his magnitude , and pleases more though he dazzles less . " Johnson was far from ...
... genius employed in little things appears , to use the simile of Longinus , like the sun in his evening declination : he remits his splendour but retains his magnitude , and pleases more though he dazzles less . " Johnson was far from ...
Сторінка lv
... genius . He craved for " more elbow - room and fewer encum- brances " , and , as Professor Saintsbury has said , " what he could do , as hardly any other man has ever done in England , was a causerie of about the · same length as Sainte ...
... genius . He craved for " more elbow - room and fewer encum- brances " , and , as Professor Saintsbury has said , " what he could do , as hardly any other man has ever done in England , was a causerie of about the · same length as Sainte ...
Сторінка lix
... genius precluded in his own day , as it still precludes , the possibility of successful imitation ; he created no new school of essayists , and he left no abiding mark on the development of English prose ; but he is within certain well ...
... genius precluded in his own day , as it still precludes , the possibility of successful imitation ; he created no new school of essayists , and he left no abiding mark on the development of English prose ; but he is within certain well ...
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Сторінка 3 - Reading maketh a full man ; conference a ready man ; and writing an exact man ; and, therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit ; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets, witty ; the mathematics, subtile ; natural philosophy, deep ; moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend...
Сторінка 3 - Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.
Сторінка 3 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. That is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Сторінка 29 - With thee conversing I forget all time, All seasons and their change, all please alike : Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Сторінка 41 - His tenants grow rich, his servants look satisfied, all the young women profess love to him, and the young men are glad of his company.
Сторінка 75 - I here fetched a deep sigh. Alas, said I, man was made in vain ! how is he given away to misery and mortality ! tortured in life, and swallowed up in death ! The genius being moved with compassion towards me, bade me quit so uncomfortable a prospect. Look no more...
Сторінка 40 - ... a gentleman of Worcestershire, of ancient descent, a baronet, his name Sir Roger de Coverley. His great-grandfather was inventor of that famous country-dance which is called after him. All who know that shire are very well acquainted with the parts and merits of Sir Roger. He is a gentleman that is very singular in his behaviour, but his singularities proceed from his good sense, and are contradictions to the manners of the world, only as he thinks the world is in the wrong.
Сторінка 234 - Then I told how for seven long years, in hope sometimes, sometimes in despair, yet persisting ever, I courted the fair Alice W n ; and, as much as children could understand, I explained to them what coyness, and difficulty, and denial meant in maidens — when suddenly, turning to Alice, the soul of the first Alice looked out at her eyes with such a reality of re-presentment, that I became in doubt which of them stood there before me, or whose that bright hair was...
Сторінка 74 - ... is the vale of misery, and the tide of water that thou seest is part of the great tide of eternity. What is the reason, said I, that the tide I see rises out of a thick mist at one end, and again loses itself in a thick mist at the other? What thou seest...
Сторінка 211 - The Devil was sick, the Devil a monk would be : The Devil grew well, the devil a monk was he...