From Shakespeare to Pope: An Inquiry Into the Causes and Phenomena of the Rise of Classical Poetry in England, Volume 1 |
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... interesting people enough to be met with , but there were no Boswells . Literary curiosity was a thing forgotten , although the pre- ceding generation had to some degree possessed it . Sir Aston Cockaine , that egotistical poetaster ...
... interesting people enough to be met with , but there were no Boswells . Literary curiosity was a thing forgotten , although the pre- ceding generation had to some degree possessed it . Sir Aston Cockaine , that egotistical poetaster ...
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... interesting to them as London , or more interesting . The novels that pleased best were those in which the scenes re- vealed some forest of palm - trees dividing the Empire of Russia from the Kingdom of Peru , some wild strand where the ...
... interesting to them as London , or more interesting . The novels that pleased best were those in which the scenes re- vealed some forest of palm - trees dividing the Empire of Russia from the Kingdom of Peru , some wild strand where the ...
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... interesting as a letter of any dying soldier to any lady he had loved , and that it is obviously written to please readers who took a great deal more interest in hearing about a handsome earl who died for love of a fair queen , than in ...
... interesting as a letter of any dying soldier to any lady he had loved , and that it is obviously written to please readers who took a great deal more interest in hearing about a handsome earl who died for love of a fair queen , than in ...
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... interesting or pretty . This was the decline of the spirit of adventure . The poetry of the Elizabethans had been very largely animated by this spirit . It had been written by men of adventure , by soldiers such as Sidney , by ...
... interesting or pretty . This was the decline of the spirit of adventure . The poetry of the Elizabethans had been very largely animated by this spirit . It had been written by men of adventure , by soldiers such as Sidney , by ...
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... century . If it were my duty here to call attention to what is good in those interesting writers of the age of Charles , the task would be an easy and a gratifying one . But I desire to keep close to Death of Shakespeare . 37.
... century . If it were my duty here to call attention to what is good in those interesting writers of the age of Charles , the task would be an easy and a gratifying one . But I desire to keep close to Death of Shakespeare . 37.
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Page 239 - The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more. For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries. The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home.
Page 69 - Go, LOVELY rose ! Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts, where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died.
Page 215 - To move, but doth, if th' other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet when the other far doth roam, It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th...
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Page 173 - Elisha-like (but with a wish much less, More fit thy greatness, and my littleness) Lo here I beg (I whom thou once didst prove So humble to esteem, so good to love) Not that thy spirit might on me doubled be, I ask but half thy mighty spirit for me ; And when my muse soars with so strong a wing, 'Twill learn of things divine, and first of thee to sing.
Page 51 - Whereupon the King turned and said to the bishop of Winchester, "Well, my Lord, what say you?" "Sir," replied the bishop, "I have no skill to judge of parliamentary cases." The King answered, "No put-offs, my Lord; answer me presently." "Then, Sir," said he, "I think it is lawful for you to take my brother Neale's money; for he offers it.
Page 299 - An Analysis of the Exposition of the Creed, written by the Right Rev. Father in God, JOHN PEARSON, DD, late Lord Bishop of Chester. Compiled for the use of the Students of Bishop's College, Calcutta, by WH MILL, DD late Regius Professor of Hebrew in the University of Cambridge.