University of Illinois Studies in Language and Literature

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University of Illinois Press, 1924
 

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Página 108 - I believe it was the first gun that had been fired there since the creation of the world...
Página 81 - And stirs the mighty whole. Thence souls of men and cattle spring, And the gay people of the wing, And those strange shapes that ocean hides Beneath the smoothness of his tides. A fiery strength inspires their lives, An essence that...
Página 57 - Hence man may be properly said to be alone in the midst of the crowds and hurry of men and business. All the reflections which he makes are to himself; all that is pleasant he embraces for himself; all that is irksome and grievous is tasted but by his own palate.
Página 211 - The most important of all the sources of the "Memoirs," from which came the pretended observations of Carleton upon Spanish customs and places, and upon which were based his adventures as a prisoner of war, is a work entitled, "The ingenious and diverting Letters of the Lady Travels into Spain. Describing the devotions, nunneries, humours, customs .... and recreations of that people. Intermixt with great variety of modern adventures, and surprising accidents. . . ." This interesting composition of...
Página 175 - THE MEMOIRS OF AN ENGLISH OFFICER, Who serv'd in the Dutch War in 1672 to the Peace of Utrecht, in 1713. Containing Several Remarkable TRANSACTIONS both by Sea and Land, and in divers Countries, but chiefly those wherein the Author was personally concern'd.
Página 25 - Wegehaupt collated it for 20. See Treu, 1884: 6; Hahn, p. .25. Wegehaupt, 1909:1938, decided from a study of 28 that W and M had a common origin; from 20, that the prototype of W was a codex of the Pre-Planudean class, contaminated by a Corpus-manuscript which was not M. 1 According to the Archivist of the Cathedral of Toledo, Eduardo Estella, this manuscript came to Spain toward the end of the 18th century in the library of Cardinal Zelada, which was brought almost intact to Toledo by Cardinal Lorenzana....
Página 178 - Memoirs." And strangely enough both the historians and the students of Defoe were content to let matters rest in "William Lee, Daniel Defoe, I (1869), Pp. 438-9. a Philip Henry, Earl of Stanhope, History of England comprising the Reign of Queen Anne, I (1872), p. 217, note 7; John Hill Burton, Reign of Queen Anne II (1880), p. 173; FW Wyon, History of Great Britain during the Reign of Queen Anne, I (1876), pp.
Página 176 - Johnson said, he had never heard of the book. Lord Eliot had it at Port Eliot; but, after a good deal of inquiry, procured a copy in London, and sent it to Johnson, who told Sir Joshua Reynolds that he was going to bed when it came, but was so much pleased with it, that he sat up till he had read it through, and found in it such an air of truth, that he could not doubt of its...

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