Studies in English Literature: Being Typical Selections of British and American Authorship, from Shakespeare to the Present Time with Definitions, Notes, Analyses, and Glossary as an Aid to Systematic Literary StudyHarper & brothers, 1888 - 638 pages |
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... person have at last arrived that are to dis- sipate the errors of past ages . " Here a full stop might be put after " reason , " and the following word begun with a cap- ital , thus converting the sentence into two sentences . II . Some ...
... person have at last arrived that are to dis- sipate the errors of past ages . " Here a full stop might be put after " reason , " and the following word begun with a cap- ital , thus converting the sentence into two sentences . II . Some ...
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... persons act and speak by the influence of those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated and the whole sys- tem of life is continued in motion . In the writings of other poets a character is too often an ...
... persons act and speak by the influence of those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated and the whole sys- tem of life is continued in motion . In the writings of other poets a character is too often an ...
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... regret , etc. 239. presently , immediately . 241. Which : for who . In Shakespeare's time , which was applicable to persons as well as to things . 235 240 345 I would she were in heaven , so she could MERCHANT OF VENICE . 25.
... regret , etc. 239. presently , immediately . 241. Which : for who . In Shakespeare's time , which was applicable to persons as well as to things . 235 240 345 I would she were in heaven , so she could MERCHANT OF VENICE . 25.
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... - ALEXANDER SMITH . III . I am old - fashioned enough to admire Bacon , whose remarks are taken in and assented to by persons of ordinary capacity , and seem nothing very profound . But when a man THREE CRITICS ON BACON'S ESSAYS . 31.
... - ALEXANDER SMITH . III . I am old - fashioned enough to admire Bacon , whose remarks are taken in and assented to by persons of ordinary capacity , and seem nothing very profound . But when a man THREE CRITICS ON BACON'S ESSAYS . 31.
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... persons to be , as it were , compan- ions and almost equals to themselves , which many times sorteth * to inconvenience . The modern languages give unto such per- sons the name of favorites , or privadoes , as if it were matter of s ...
... persons to be , as it were , compan- ions and almost equals to themselves , which many times sorteth * to inconvenience . The modern languages give unto such per- sons the name of favorites , or privadoes , as if it were matter of s ...
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Page 48 - MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea : Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou...
Page 215 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Page 202 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Page 71 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Page 346 - Liberty first and Union afterwards ; but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable.
Page 14 - Ingratitude, more strong than traitors' arms, Quite vanquished him ; then burst his mighty heart ; And, in his mantle muffling up his face, Even at the base of Pompey's statue, Which all the while ran blood, great Caesar fell. O, what a fall was there, my countrymen ! Then I, and you, and all of us fell down, Whilst bloody treason flourished over us.
Page 292 - There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
Page 322 - Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother: They parted - ne'er to meet again! But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs, which had been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows between; But neither heat, nor frost...
Page 297 - The years to bring the inevitable yoke. Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife? Full soon thy soul shall have her earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life ! IX.
Page 288 - For a' that, and a' that, Their dignities, and a' that, The pith o' sense, and pride o' worth, Are higher ranks than a' that. Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that — That sense and worth o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, and a' that. For a' that, and a' that, It's coming yet, for a