Five Short Courses of Reading in English LiteratureGinn, 1891 - 99 páginas |
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A. C. Swinburne Addison ADDITIONAL READING Arthur Hugh Clough AUTHORS ALREADY MENTIONED BIOGRAPHICAL Birrell Books Browning's Burke Burke's Burns Chapter Charles Eliot Norton Charles Lamb Clarendon Press Series Complete Poetical Cowper David Masson dramatic Dryden E. P. Whipple EDITIONS RECOMMENDED Edward Dowden English Literature Epistle Essays on Poetry George Globe Edition Goldsmith illustrate Introduction and Notes J. C. Shairp J. R. Lowell Keats Landor Leslie Stephen Letters Series Literary History Literary Studies Lord Byron Mary Masson's edition Matthew Arnold Memoir Milton Obiter Dicta passages Poetry and Poets Pope Pope's R. H. Hutton Rasselas reference Robert Browning Roden Noel Ruskin Samuel Johnson Sartor Resartus Second edition Second Series Shakespeare Shakspere Shelley sketch Sonnets Southey stanzas Steele Studies in Letters style Swift T. B. Macaulay Tennyson Theological and Literary Thomas Carlyle Thomas De Quincey Transcripts and Studies volume of Selections Walter Bagehot Walter Scott William Minto Wordsworth Writers Series Writings
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Página 93 - The cheerfu' supper done, wi' serious face, They, round the ingle, form a circle wide ; The sire turns o'er wi...
Página 95 - Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong.
Página 24 - Sir, I think you must perceive that I am resolved this day to have nothing at all to do with the question of the right of taxation. Some gentlemen startle, but it is true. I put it totally out of the question. It is less than nothing in my consideration.
Página 90 - His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Página 83 - tis true: 'tis true, 'tis pity; And pity 'tis, 'tis true: a foolish figure ; But farewell it, for I will use no art. Mad let us grant him then : and now remains, That we find out the cause of this effect ; Or, rather say, the cause of this defect; For this effect, defective, comes by cause: Thus it remains, and the remainder thus.
Página 88 - Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobey'd. 130 The muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, To help me thro' this long disease, my life, To second, Arbuthnot!
Página 88 - Yet absent, wounds an author's honest fame: Who can your merit selfishly approve, And show the sense of it without the love; Who has the vanity to call you friend...
Página 88 - Soft were my numbers; who could take offence While pure description held the place of sense? Like gentle Fanny's was my flowery theme, A painted mistress, or a purling stream.
Página 88 - Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky...
Página 90 - Can you not? A blow on the brain can destroy the intelligence! Do you think it can destroy the soul? "'From Marlbro's eyes the tears of dotage flow, And Swift expires, a driveller and a show.