The literary reader: prose authors, with biogr. notices &c. by H.G. RobinsonHugh George Robinson 1867 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 92
Page iv
... writers . They include the leading names connected with each epoch of our National Literature . Many of our great masters of English Prose are indeed passed over , but it is neverthe- less believed that almost every variety of style is ...
... writers . They include the leading names connected with each epoch of our National Literature . Many of our great masters of English Prose are indeed passed over , but it is neverthe- less believed that almost every variety of style is ...
Page iv
... writers . They include the leading names connected with each epoch of our National Literature . Many of our great masters of English Prose are indeed passed over , but it is neverthe- less believed that almost every variety of style is ...
... writers . They include the leading names connected with each epoch of our National Literature . Many of our great masters of English Prose are indeed passed over , but it is neverthe- less believed that almost every variety of style is ...
Page 1
... writers . But the design of this short Essay is less comprehensive , and it will be sufficient to commence our notice at an epoch when the language had so far assumed its present form as to be in a great degree intelligible to modern ...
... writers . But the design of this short Essay is less comprehensive , and it will be sufficient to commence our notice at an epoch when the language had so far assumed its present form as to be in a great degree intelligible to modern ...
Page 2
... writers is too remote from modern usage to make it necessary to say anything of their style in its relation to the art of composition . It may be useful , however , to point out some of the philological or grammatical peculiarities by ...
... writers is too remote from modern usage to make it necessary to say anything of their style in its relation to the art of composition . It may be useful , however , to point out some of the philological or grammatical peculiarities by ...
Page 3
... writers , however , whom we would select to represent the English of the Reformation Period are Sir Thomas More and Roger Ascham . The style of both these authors is good . It is , indeed , simpler , more English , and , so to speak ...
... writers , however , whom we would select to represent the English of the Reformation Period are Sir Thomas More and Roger Ascham . The style of both these authors is good . It is , indeed , simpler , more English , and , so to speak ...
Other editions - View all
The Literary Reader: Prose Authors, With Biogr. Notices &C. by H.G. Robinson Hugh George Robinson No preview available - 2019 |
Common terms and phrases
actions admiration Alemanni amongst ancient Aristotle Atheism beauty body called cause character Christian Church Cicero Clovis common commonwealth consent death delight Demosthenes divine Dryden effect eloquence enemy England English Epaminondas Essay Faery Queen father favour fortune Gaul genius Gentlemen of Verona give Greece happiness hath honour House of Stuart human Hyder Ali ideas imagination judgment Juvenal king knowledge Lacedaemonians language Latin learning liberty lived Lord mankind manners matter means memory ment Milton mind monarchy moral nation nature never object observed opinion Paradise Lost passions peace perhaps persons philosophy pleasure Plutarch poem poet poetry political possession Prince principle prose reason religion Roman seems sense sentiments Shakspere society sometimes Sparta Spenser spirit style Syagrius Tacitus Thebans Thebes things thou thought tion truth unto victory virtue Visigoths whole words writers
Popular passages
Page 329 - Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone...
Page 313 - Straits — while we are looking for them beneath the Arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of Polar cold — that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen Serpent of the south...
Page 329 - Little did I dream when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic, distant, respectful love, that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote against disgrace concealed in that bosom; little did I dream...
Page 163 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Page 109 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle, mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam, — purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance, while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble...
Page 195 - ... them into the tide and immediately disappeared. These hidden pitfalls were set very thick at the entrance of the bridge, so that throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud, but many of them fell into them. They grew thinner towards the middle, but multiplied and lay closer together towards the end of the arches that were entire.
Page 419 - MEN in great place are thrice servants — servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business ; so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty ; or to seek power over others, and to lose. power over a man's self.
Page 15 - ... if celestial spheres should forget their wonted motions, and by irregular volubility turn themselves any way as it might happen; if the prince of the lights of heaven, which now as a giant doth run his unwearied course, should as it were through a languishing faintness begin to stand and to rest himself; if the moon should wander from her beaten way, the times and seasons of the year blend themselves by disordered and confused mixture, the winds breathe out their last gasp...
Page 196 - I could discover nothing in it: but the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits with garlands...
Page 35 - ... most properly do imitate to teach and delight; and, to imitate, borrow nothing of what is, hath been, or shall be: but range, only reined with learned discretion, into the divine consideration of what may be, and should be.