Lives of Great English Writers from Chaucer to BrowningHoughton Mifflin, 1908 - 569 páginas |
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... character and conception . Boccaccio gathered his ladies and gen- tlemen together in the Florentine villa and let them tell their charming tales ; but there is neither character in the description of the group nor fitness in the ...
... character and conception . Boccaccio gathered his ladies and gen- tlemen together in the Florentine villa and let them tell their charming tales ; but there is neither character in the description of the group nor fitness in the ...
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... character which Chaucer has impressed upon his poetic work . He is above all an observer of men and their ways , an interested , if reticent , specta- tor of the life about him . He is quite contented with the spectacle and has no mind ...
... character which Chaucer has impressed upon his poetic work . He is above all an observer of men and their ways , an interested , if reticent , specta- tor of the life about him . He is quite contented with the spectacle and has no mind ...
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... character by the weakest link in the chain . Bacon's enemies , foremost among them Coke , the greatest English lawyer , brought about his downfall , and have , in a manner , written the verdict passed upon Bacon by history ; his friends ...
... character by the weakest link in the chain . Bacon's enemies , foremost among them Coke , the greatest English lawyer , brought about his downfall , and have , in a manner , written the verdict passed upon Bacon by history ; his friends ...
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... can be explained only by that fatal weakness in his character which has been noticed before . He had been an able Lord Chancellor ; but he was after all the creature of Buckingham , and when the storm broke 64 GREAT ENGLISH WRITERS.
... can be explained only by that fatal weakness in his character which has been noticed before . He had been an able Lord Chancellor ; but he was after all the creature of Buckingham , and when the storm broke 64 GREAT ENGLISH WRITERS.
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... characters . Every one knows Ben Jonson's account of the poet's " small Latin and less Greek . " But when discussing Shakespeare's education we must remember that its importance lay in what it did for him as a reader and not as a ...
... characters . Every one knows Ben Jonson's account of the poet's " small Latin and less Greek . " But when discussing Shakespeare's education we must remember that its importance lay in what it did for him as a reader and not as a ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Addison admiration Bacon Barry Cornwall became began Ben Jonson brought Browning Bunyan Burke Byron called Carlyle century Charles Lamb Chaucer chiefly Coleridge Coleridge's court daughter death Dickens died Dryden Dunciad early Edinburgh England English essays fact Faerie Queen fame famous father favor French friends genius George Eliot Goldsmith Grasmere heart humor interest Italy John Johnson Keats King Lady Lamb's later Leigh Hunt letters literary literature lived London Lord Macaulay marriage married Mary Matthew Arnold Milton Moor Park moreover nature never Oxford person Pilgrim's Progress play poem poet poet's poetic poetry Pope Pope's praise published Puritan quarrel Queen Quincey Ralegh remarkable Ruskin Sartor Resartus satire says Scott Shakespeare Shelley sonnets soon Spenser spirit story Swift Tennyson Thackeray things Thomas thought tion took verse Whig whole wife Wordsworth write written wrote young youth
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Página 396 - Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is : What if my leaves are falling like its own ! The tumult of thy mighty harmonies Will take from both a deep, autumnal tone, Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit fierce, My spirit ! Be thou me, impetuous one...
Página 184 - It was said of Socrates that he brought Philosophy down from heaven, to inhabit among men ; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of closets and libraries, schools and colleges, to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea-tables and in coffeehouses.
Página 312 - Come back into memory, like as thou wert in the day-spring of thy fancies, with hope like a fiery column before thee — the dark pillar not yet turned — /Samuel Taylor Coleridge — Logician, Metaphysician, Bard...
Página 94 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Página 39 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet...
Página 449 - Homer were reading of my own election, but my mother forced me, by steady daily toil, to learn long chapters of the Bible by heart, as well as to read it every syllable through, aloud, hard names and all, from Genesis to the Apocalypse, about once a year ; and to that discipline — patient, accurate, and resolute — I owe not only a knowledge of the book', which I find occasionally serviceable, but much of my general power of taking pains, and the best part of my taste in literature.
Página 404 - The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy ; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted...
Página 432 - Behold, thou art fatherless, outcast, and the Universe is mine (the Devil's)"; to which my whole Me now made answer: "I am not thine, but Free, and forever hate thee!" 'It is from this hour that I incline to date my Spiritual New-birth, or Baphometic Fire-baptism; perhaps I directly thereupon began to be a Man.
Página 356 - Deep lie the roots of her power ; but narrow is the nation that she rules. For she can approach only those in whom a profound nature has been upheaved by central convulsions ; in whom the heart trembles and the brain rocks under conspiracies of tempest from without and tempest from within. Madonna moves with uncertain steps, fast or slow, but still with tragic grace. Our Lady of Sighs creeps timidly and stealthily. But this youngest sister moves with incalculable motions, bounding, and with a tiger's...
Página 94 - Only this my mind gave me, that every free and gentle spirit, without that oath, ought to be born a knight, nor needed to expect the gilt spur or the laying of a sword upon his shoulder to stir him up both by his counsel and his arms to secure and protect the weakness of any attempted chastity.