A Manual of English Literature: A Text Book for Schools and CollegesEldredge & Brother, 1872 - 636 pages |
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... mind , which is the only sure way of interesting the minds of others , but from his commonplace work , and making an immense patch- work of most grave and learned morality , having in it nothing that comes home to men's " business and ...
... mind , which is the only sure way of interesting the minds of others , but from his commonplace work , and making an immense patch- work of most grave and learned morality , having in it nothing that comes home to men's " business and ...
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... mind of some original vigor . Few English writers come nearer , in this respect , to Rabelais , whom Skelton preceded . His attempts in serious poetry are utterly contemptible ; but the satirical lines on Cardinal Wolsey were probably ...
... mind of some original vigor . Few English writers come nearer , in this respect , to Rabelais , whom Skelton preceded . His attempts in serious poetry are utterly contemptible ; but the satirical lines on Cardinal Wolsey were probably ...
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... mind . They were dramatic entertain- ments , founded on parts of Scripture history , and were often played in the churches and on Sunday . Two of his plays , John the Baptist , and God's Promises , which were publicly acted on Sunday ...
... mind . They were dramatic entertain- ments , founded on parts of Scripture history , and were often played in the churches and on Sunday . Two of his plays , John the Baptist , and God's Promises , which were publicly acted on Sunday ...
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... mind was preg- nant with deep reflection upon multifarious learning , but he struggles to give utter- ance to thoughts which he had not fully endowed with words , and amidst the shackles of rhyme and metre which he had not learned to ...
... mind was preg- nant with deep reflection upon multifarious learning , but he struggles to give utter- ance to thoughts which he had not fully endowed with words , and amidst the shackles of rhyme and metre which he had not learned to ...
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... mind made an impression on his son's genius , who passed as an exquisite poet . He carried , in his Christian [ name ] and surname , two holy prophets , his monitors , so to qualify his raptures , that he abhorred all profaneness . He ...
... mind made an impression on his son's genius , who passed as an exquisite poet . He carried , in his Christian [ name ] and surname , two holy prophets , his monitors , so to qualify his raptures , that he abhorred all profaneness . He ...
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Page 180 - The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a study to every person who wishes to obtain a wide command over the English language. The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. There is not an expression, if we except a few technical terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. We have observed several pages which do not contain a single word of more than two syllables. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say.
Page 130 - With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light: There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced choir below, In service high, and anthems clear, As may with sweetness through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes.
Page 207 - An apology for the true Christian divinity as the same is held forth and preached by the people called in scorn Quakers...
Page 271 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Page 145 - His spirits do not seem to have been high, but they were singularly equable. His temper was serious, perhaps stern ; but it was a temper which no sufferings could render sullen or fretful. Such as it was when, on the eve of great events, he returned from his travels, in the prime of health and manly beauty, loaded with literary distinctions, and glowing with patriotic hopes, such it continued to be when, after having experienced every calamity...
Page 322 - Look then abroad through Nature, to the range Of planets, suns, and adamantine spheres, Wheeling unshaken through the void immense ; And speak, O man ! does this capacious scene With half that kindling majesty dilate Thy strong conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of...
Page 146 - ... little read. As compositions, they deserve the attention of every man who wishes to become acquainted with the full power of the English language. They abound with passages compared with which the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance. They are a perfect field of cloth of gold. The style is stiff, with gorgeous embroidery.
Page 272 - I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.
Page 180 - There is no book in our literature, on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old, unpolluted English language ; no book which shows so well, how rich that language is, in its own proper wealth, and how little it has been improved by all that it has borrowed.
Page 180 - Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation, for subtle disquisition, for every purpose of the poet, the orator, and the divine, this homely dialect, the dialect of plain working men, was perfectly sufficient.