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, 1887 - 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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... , Antonio himself . you regret , etc. 239. presently , immediately . 241. Which : for who . In Shakespeare's time , which was applicable to persons as well as to things . I would she were in heaven , so she could MERCHANT OF VENICE . 25.
... , Antonio himself . you regret , etc. 239. presently , immediately . 241. Which : for who . In Shakespeare's time , which was applicable to persons as well as to things . 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 5 ...
... 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 5 ...
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Page 519 - Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho...
Page 411 - To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language ; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Page 163 - Or in the natal, or the mortal hour. All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good: And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.
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 50 - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and cranks,* and wanton* wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Page 519 - Death closes all: but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods. [The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices.
Page 10 - Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And sure, he is an honorable man. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke. But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause ; What cause withholds you, then, to mourn for him ? O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts. And men have lost their reason. — Bear with me.: My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause till it come back to me.
Page 245 - Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom.
Page 582 - The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves. And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer it receives ; His mate feels the eggs beneath her wings, And the heart in her dumb breast flutters and sings ; He sings to the wide world, and she to her nest, — In the nice ear of nature which song is the best...
Page 191 - The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached the ground encumbers him with help?