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... original sources . These are arranged , so far as possible , according to their first striking word — a plan which has seemed to the Author the most useful and intelligible that could be adopted . CHARACTERS in POETRY and FICTION are ...
... original sources . These are arranged , so far as possible , according to their first striking word — a plan which has seemed to the Author the most useful and intelligible that could be adopted . CHARACTERS in POETRY and FICTION are ...
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... original . A romance on the same subject was printed by one Alexander Arbuthnot , in Scotland , and is described by Weber as also a translation from the French , and the work of an anonymous Scotch poet of the fifteenth century . See ...
... original . A romance on the same subject was printed by one Alexander Arbuthnot , in Scotland , and is described by Weber as also a translation from the French , and the work of an anonymous Scotch poet of the fifteenth century . See ...
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... original and striking poem - a poem brimful of the breath of his Oxford culture , of Dr. Newman's metaphysics , of classical tradition , of the political enthusiasm of the time , and of his own large , speculative humour , subtle ...
... original and striking poem - a poem brimful of the breath of his Oxford culture , of Dr. Newman's metaphysics , of classical tradition , of the political enthusiasm of the time , and of his own large , speculative humour , subtle ...
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... original and pregnant passage of Origen , which is so honestly prefixed to it as a motto , " it was , notwithstanding , " the most original and profound work , extant in any language , on the Philosophy of Religion . " The motto from ...
... original and pregnant passage of Origen , which is so honestly prefixed to it as a motto , " it was , notwithstanding , " the most original and profound work , extant in any language , on the Philosophy of Religion . " The motto from ...
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... original . In this tale , the deceased Sir John of Bordeaux has three sons , Saladine , Fernandine , and Rosader ; the banished duke being Gerismond , King of France . Celia is first Alinda and afterwards Aliena ; Corin and Silvius ...
... original . In this tale , the deceased Sir John of Bordeaux has three sons , Saladine , Fernandine , and Rosader ; the banished duke being Gerismond , King of France . Celia is first Alinda and afterwards Aliena ; Corin and Silvius ...
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Page 7 - 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.
Page 254 - I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Chr — 's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Page 96 - On the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as manifested in the Creation ; illustrating such work by all reasonable arguments, as for instance the variety and formation of God's creatures in the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms ; the effect of digestion, and thereby of conversion ; the construction of the hand of man, and an infinite variety of other arguments; as also by discoveries ancient and modern, in arts, sciences, and the whole extent of literature.
Page 396 - These poems differ from others, as attar of roses differs from ordinary rose water. the close packed essence from the thin diluted mixture. They are indeed not so much poems, as collections of hints, from each of which the reader is to make out a poem for himself. Every epithet is a text for a stanza.
Page 121 - I waked one morning in the beginning of last June from a dream, of which all I could recover was, that I had thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head filled like mine with Gothic story) and that on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour.
Page 92 - Several Poems Compiled with great variety of Wit and Learning, full of Delight; Wherein especially is contained a compleat Discourse, and Description of The Four Elements. Constitutions, Ages of Man, Seasons of the Year.
Page 396 - The most striking characteristic of the poetry of Milton is the extreme remoteness of the associations, by means of which it acts on the reader. Its effect is produced, not so much by what it expresses, as by what it suggests, not so much by the ideas which it directly conveys, as by other ideas which are connected with them. He electrifies the mind through conductors. The most unimaginative man must understand the Iliad.
Page 293 - HE that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men ; which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public.
Page 399 - Cast thy eyes eastward, said he, and tell me what thou seest. I see, said I, a huge valley, and a prodigious tide of water rolling through it. The valley that thou seest, said he, 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...
Page 164 - Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an uninhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates. Written by Himself.