History of English Literature, Volumen1Chatto & Windus, 1871 |
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... tastes , the degree of his refinement or rusticity , his extravagance or his economy , his stupidity or his cunning . You listen to his conversation , and you note the inflexions of his voice , the changes in his attitudes ; and that in ...
... tastes , the degree of his refinement or rusticity , his extravagance or his economy , his stupidity or his cunning . You listen to his conversation , and you note the inflexions of his voice , the changes in his attitudes ; and that in ...
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... taste , the irregularity and revolutions of his conception , which arrest in him the birth of fair dispositions and harmonious forms , the disdain of appearances , the desire of truth , the attachment to bare and abstract ideas , which ...
... taste , the irregularity and revolutions of his conception , which arrest in him the birth of fair dispositions and harmonious forms , the disdain of appearances , the desire of truth , the attachment to bare and abstract ideas , which ...
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... taste of the Latin writers . VIII . Contrast of German and Latin races - Character of the Saxon race - Its endurance under the Norman conquest . A I. S you coast the North Sea from the Scheldt to Jutland , you will mark in the first ...
... taste of the Latin writers . VIII . Contrast of German and Latin races - Character of the Saxon race - Its endurance under the Norman conquest . A I. S you coast the North Sea from the Scheldt to Jutland , you will mark in the first ...
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... taste for voluptuousness ; love was tardy , edu- cation severe , their food simple ; all the recreation they indulged in was the hunting of the aurochs , and a dance amongst naked swords . Violent intoxication and perilous wagers were ...
... taste for voluptuousness ; love was tardy , edu- cation severe , their food simple ; all the recreation they indulged in was the hunting of the aurochs , and a dance amongst naked swords . Violent intoxication and perilous wagers were ...
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... taste and architecture - Their spirit of inquiry and their literature - Chivalry and amusements - Their tactics and their success . III . Bent of the French genius - Two principal characteristics ; clear and con- secutive ideas ...
... taste and architecture - Their spirit of inquiry and their literature - Chivalry and amusements - Their tactics and their success . III . Bent of the French genius - Two principal characteristics ; clear and con- secutive ideas ...
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action amid amongst amusement arms Beaumont and Fletcher beauty Ben Jonson Beowulf blood Cædmon Canterbury Tales century character Chaucer Christian church civilisation comedy conscience Coriolanus Country Wife court death doth drama dream England English eyes fancy father flowers French genius give gold grace hand hath head hear heart heaven honour human Ibid ideas images imagination imitation instincts Jonson king labour lady Latin light literature living look Lord lover manners marriage married Milton mind Molière moral nature never night noble painting Paradise Lost passion Petrarch play pleasure poem poet poetic poetry Puritan race reason religion Renaissance Robert Wace Saxon says Sejanus sentiment Shakspeare sing song soul speak spirit style sweet sword taste thee Thierry and Theodoret things thou thought tion trouvères verse voice Volpone whole wife woman words writing
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Página 216 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; or a tower of state, for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contention ; or a shop, for profit or sale ; and not a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Página 339 - In form and moving how express and admirable ! In action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world! The paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me, — no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.
Página 430 - ... teeth: and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Página 450 - And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks ; and in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
Página 337 - Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married. O most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets, It is not nor it cannot come to good; But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue!
Página 218 - The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible.
Página 337 - Hold, hold, my heart ; And you, my sinews, grow not instant old, But bear me stiffly up. Remember thee ! Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe.
Página 308 - Such an act, That blurs the grace and blush of modesty ; Calls virtue hypocrite ; takes off the rose From the fair forehead of an innocent love, And sets a blister there; makes marriage vows As false as dicers...
Página 384 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven and climb above the clouds ; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the libration and frequent weighing of his wings, till the little creature was forced to sit down and pant and stay till the storm was over ; and then...
Página 370 - Almighty and most merciful Father, We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. We have offended against thy holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; And we have done those things which we ought not to have done; And there is no health in us.