Literary Leaves; Or, Prose and Verse Chiefly Written in India, Volume 2W.H. Allen & Company, 1840 - English literature |
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... popular at the time , and which was certainly the most easy to construct , and perhaps the most agreeable to his own ear . That the form of three elegiac quatrains , concluding with a cou- plet , is infinitely less difficult than the ...
... popular at the time , and which was certainly the most easy to construct , and perhaps the most agreeable to his own ear . That the form of three elegiac quatrains , concluding with a cou- plet , is infinitely less difficult than the ...
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... popular author , distinguished for his knowledge of literary history , has done me the honor to read the first edition of this work , and in an interest- ing and most obliging private letter , communicates the following characteristic ...
... popular author , distinguished for his knowledge of literary history , has done me the honor to read the first edition of this work , and in an interest- ing and most obliging private letter , communicates the following characteristic ...
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... popular . The poet be- wails his unsuccessful love for a beautiful youth , in " a strain of the most tender passion , yet with professions of the chastest affection . " The meaning attached to the ardent phrases that are now con- fined ...
... popular . The poet be- wails his unsuccessful love for a beautiful youth , in " a strain of the most tender passion , yet with professions of the chastest affection . " The meaning attached to the ardent phrases that are now con- fined ...
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... popular poet at that time ) , who it is known had dedicated to William Herbert , whereas Spenser , erroneously supposed to be alluded to , did not dedicate to Herbert . From these and other " united proofs " as he calls them , the ...
... popular poet at that time ) , who it is known had dedicated to William Herbert , whereas Spenser , erroneously supposed to be alluded to , did not dedicate to Herbert . From these and other " united proofs " as he calls them , the ...
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... popular . His first two poems went through six editions in thirteen years , while during the same period , Romeo and Juliet ( his most po- . pular play ) passed through the press but twice . The following are the conclusions I have ...
... popular . His first two poems went through six editions in thirteen years , while during the same period , Romeo and Juliet ( his most po- . pular play ) passed through the press but twice . The following are the conclusions I have ...
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Addison admiration amongst Anna Seward appears beauty Ben Jonson breathe Byron Campbell character charm critic delight diction Don Quixote dramatic dreams Drummond Dryden English English language excellence exquisite Falstaff fame fancy feeling genius Grongar Hill hath Hazlitt heart human humour Iago imagination imitation India intellectual Italian Johnson language Leigh Hunt less literary literature living look Lord Lord Byron Massinger merit Milton mind Moore moral Muse nature never noble o'er object observed Othello passages passion perhaps Petrarch poems poet poet's poetical poetry Pope popular praise prose racter reader remarkable respect rhymes Roger de Coverley Sancho Sancho Panza says scene seems sense Shakespeare Shylock Sir Roger sonnets soul speak spirit stanza strange style sweet taste thee thine thing Thomas Moore thou thought tion Tory true truth uncle Toby verse vulgar words Wordsworth writer written
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Page 193 - I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice...
Page 14 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Page 191 - Tis not to make me jealous, To say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company, Is free of speech, sings, plays, and dances well ; Where virtue is, these are more virtuous : Nor from mine own weak merits will I draw The smallest fear or doubt of her revolt ; For she had eyes, and chose me. No, lago ; I'll see before I doubt; when I doubt, prove; And, on the proof, there is no more but this, — Away at once with love or jealousy!
Page 10 - ... this line, remember not The hand that writ it; for I love you so That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot If thinking on me then should make you woe. O, if, I say, you look upon this verse When I perhaps compounded am with clay, Do not so much as my poor name rehearse, But let your love even with my life decay, Lest the wise world should look into your moan And mock you with me after I am gone.
Page 11 - Saturn laugh'd and leap'd with him. Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue, Could make me any summer's story tell...
Page 218 - I do remember him at Clement's Inn, like a man made after supper of a cheese-paring : when he was naked, he was, for all the world, like a forked radish, with a head fantastically carved upon it with a knife...
Page 190 - I'd make a life of jealousy ; To follow still the changes of the moon With fresh suspicions ? No ! to be once in doubt, Is once to be resolved.
Page 27 - Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace: Even so my sun one early morn did shine With all-triumphant splendour on my brow; But, out, alack!
Page 226 - As Sir Roger is landlord to the whole congregation, he keeps them in very good order, and will suffer nobody to sleep in it besides himself; for if, by chance, he has been surprised into a short nap at sermon, upon recovering out of it he stands up and looks about him, and, if he sees anybody else nodding, either wakes them himself, or sends his servants to them.
Page 27 - I'll read, his for his love." XXXIII Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace.