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... give an account of the English arnals from A. D. 1 ; and though the earlier portion , as might be expected , is filled with trivial and improbable fables , the accuracy and importance of the work , as a historical document , becomes im ...
... give an account of the English arnals from A. D. 1 ; and though the earlier portion , as might be expected , is filled with trivial and improbable fables , the accuracy and importance of the work , as a historical document , becomes im ...
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... give to the world an English version of the same curious work . In his translation of Higden , Trevisa avoids what he calls “ the old and ancient Englische ; " and the same author gives a most terrifying description of the barbarous ...
... give to the world an English version of the same curious work . In his translation of Higden , Trevisa avoids what he calls “ the old and ancient Englische ; " and the same author gives a most terrifying description of the barbarous ...
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... give ( as a multitude of poets , ancient and modern , have striven to do ) an air of antiquity to the language of his Faery Queen , ' in harmony with the romantic chivalry of its subject , set the example - unhappily followed by many ...
... give ( as a multitude of poets , ancient and modern , have striven to do ) an air of antiquity to the language of his Faery Queen , ' in harmony with the romantic chivalry of its subject , set the example - unhappily followed by many ...
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... give a better notion of the present condition of the language than more general description . It has been ascertained that the English now consists of about 38,000 words , of which 23,000 , or nearly five- eighths , are Anglo - Saxon in ...
... give a better notion of the present condition of the language than more general description . It has been ascertained that the English now consists of about 38,000 words , of which 23,000 , or nearly five- eighths , are Anglo - Saxon in ...
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... give a detailed history of all the productions , nor , indeed , even a list of all the names , which figure in the annals of English literature . It will be our aim to direct the reader's attention upon those great works and those ...
... give a detailed history of all the productions , nor , indeed , even a list of all the names , which figure in the annals of English literature . It will be our aim to direct the reader's attention upon those great works and those ...
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Страница 243 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike...
Страница 157 - With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced quire below, In service high and anthems clear, As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes.
Страница 236 - I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives, to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.
Страница 246 - 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.
Страница 168 - Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model: or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept, or nature to be...
Страница 191 - Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.
Страница 243 - Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause ; While wits and templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise ; Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals ? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers...
Страница 123 - You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!
Страница 114 - Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone : regard his hellish fall, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise Only to wonder at unlawful things, Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits To practise more than heavenly power permits.
Страница 268 - The successors of Charles V. may disdain their brethren of England: but the romance of 'Tom Jones,' that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the palace of the Escurial and the Imperial Eagle of Austria.