Philosophy of English Literature: A Course of Lectures Delivered in the Lowell InstituteG. P. Putnam, 1874 - 318 páginas |
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... temper and moods by their re- lation to the supreme element of his nature , to the ethical temperature of his own soul , so are his works . What the light is to the landscape , grading it in its every degree of emotion , lifting it up ...
... temper and moods by their re- lation to the supreme element of his nature , to the ethical temperature of his own soul , so are his works . What the light is to the landscape , grading it in its every degree of emotion , lifting it up ...
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... temper . The Normans were in many respects the reverse of the Saxons . These had occupied England for six centuries by displacement , with comparatively slight alterations of character and language . The Normans , in less than a third ...
... temper . The Normans were in many respects the reverse of the Saxons . These had occupied England for six centuries by displacement , with comparatively slight alterations of character and language . The Normans , in less than a third ...
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... the actual temper and wants of men , it was a most serviceable task which Cervantes undertook in Don Quixote , that of turn ing into ridicule the notion of knight errantry . We THE MINSTREL OF ENGLISH LITERATURE . 23.
... the actual temper and wants of men , it was a most serviceable task which Cervantes undertook in Don Quixote , that of turn ing into ridicule the notion of knight errantry . We THE MINSTREL OF ENGLISH LITERATURE . 23.
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... temper of mind . For I wol preche and beg in sondry londes , I wol not do no labour with min hondes , Ne make baskettes for to live therby , Because I wol not beggen idelly , I wol non of the apostles contrefete : I wol have money ...
... temper of mind . For I wol preche and beg in sondry londes , I wol not do no labour with min hondes , Ne make baskettes for to live therby , Because I wol not beggen idelly , I wol non of the apostles contrefete : I wol have money ...
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... temper pride with courtesy ; if they are to fight , it is better they should do it in fellowship , for this is partial peace ; if they are to revel , that their indulgences should come with social sentiments and jollity . Chivalry was ...
... temper pride with courtesy ; if they are to fight , it is better they should do it in fellowship , for this is partial peace ; if they are to revel , that their indulgences should come with social sentiments and jollity . Chivalry was ...
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Página 294 - Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from EXPERIENCE; in that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives itself.
Página 172 - It was said of Socrates, that he brought Philosophy down from Heaven to inhabit among Men ; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-tables, and in Coffee-houses.
Página 255 - Blessings be with them and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves and nobler cares — ' The poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays!
Página 159 - She comes ! she comes ! the sable throne behold Of Night primeval and of Chaos old ! Before her, fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sick'ning stars fade off th' ethereal plain ; As Argus
Página 205 - He sacrifices virtue to convenience, and is so much more careful to please than to instruct, that he seems to write without any moral purpose.
Página 294 - Our observation employed either about external sensible objects, or about the internal operations of our minds perceived and reflected on by ourselves, is that which supplies our understandings with all the materials of thinking. These two are the fountains of knowledge, from whence all the ideas we have, or can naturally have, do spring.
Página 304 - The intense view of these manifold contradictions and imperfections in human reason has so wrought upon me, and heated my brain, that I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another.
Página 201 - Sir, he was a scoundrel, and a coward : a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality ; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger after his death...
Página 84 - Commons, and from thence derives itself to a gallant bravery and well grounded contempt of their enemies, as if there were no small number of as great spirits among us as his was who when Rome was nigh...
Página 259 - It is an experiment on the temper of the public mind, as to how far a thirst for a happier condition of moral and political society survives, among the enlightened and refined, the tempests which have shaken the age in which we live.