A History of English Literature: In a Series of Biographical SketchesNelson, 1871 - 549 sider |
Inni boken
Resultat 1-5 av 85
Side 9
... words , which ever point us back to the green and per- fumed woodland where sprang the earliest ancestor of those wondrous and innumerable compounds of author's brain , printer's 10 CAIRNS , GROVES , AND CORDS . ink ,
... words , which ever point us back to the green and per- fumed woodland where sprang the earliest ancestor of those wondrous and innumerable compounds of author's brain , printer's 10 CAIRNS , GROVES , AND CORDS . ink ,
Side 10
... word beech , into which it easily changes when we tone down k to ch soft ; and what could our Saxon forefathers have found , in the thick forests of their native Germany , better fitted for their rude in- scribings than the smooth and ...
... word beech , into which it easily changes when we tone down k to ch soft ; and what could our Saxon forefathers have found , in the thick forests of their native Germany , better fitted for their rude in- scribings than the smooth and ...
Side 12
... word formed of alphabetic symbols -cannot here be traced . Take two specimens of the phases which the growing art assumed . A piece of cotton cloth is before us , brilliant with crimson and yellow and pale blue , and oblong like our ...
... word formed of alphabetic symbols -cannot here be traced . Take two specimens of the phases which the growing art assumed . A piece of cotton cloth is before us , brilliant with crimson and yellow and pale blue , and oblong like our ...
Side 15
... words are made . Much of this opening chapter deals with countries far from Britain , and an age anterior , in the Old World at least , to the birth of British literature . But it is not a rash conjecture , that , among the ancestors of ...
... words are made . Much of this opening chapter deals with countries far from Britain , and an age anterior , in the Old World at least , to the birth of British literature . But it is not a rash conjecture , that , among the ancestors of ...
Side 18
... words in the first line beginning with the same letter , which letter must also be the initial of the first word , on which the stress of the voice falls in the second line . The only approach to a metrical system yet discovered is ...
... words in the first line beginning with the same letter , which letter must also be the initial of the first word , on which the stress of the voice falls in the second line . The only approach to a metrical system yet discovered is ...
Andre utgaver - Vis alle
A History of English Literature: In a Series of Biographical Sketches William Francis Collier Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1869 |
A History of English Literature: In a Series of Biographical Sketches William Francis Collier Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1877 |
A History of English Literature: In a Series of Biographical Sketches William Francis Collier Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1880 |
Vanlige uttrykk og setninger
Addison afterwards amid Anglo-Saxon appeared Archbishop of Canterbury beauty became Bible born brilliant called Cambridge century CHAPTER character Charles chief chiefly Church College coloured court death died dramatic Dublin Earl early Edinburgh Edinburgh Review England English poetry Essays Faerie Queene fame father finest France genius gentle heart Henry History honour Illustrative extract James John John Milton King Lady land Latin letters literary lived London Lord Milton mind minstrels night noble novel novelist Oxford paper Paradise Lost picture play poem poet poet's poetic poetry political poor prose published Puritan Queen reign ROGER ASCHAM romance round royal scene Scotland Scottish Shakspere song SPECIMEN spent story style Supplementary List sweet Tatler Thomas Thomas Fuller thought took tragedy translation Trinity College University of Edinburgh verse wife WILLIAM words writer written wrote young
Populære avsnitt
Side 210 - The other shape, If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint or limb; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed; For each seemed either; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on...
Side 211 - Hail, horrors ! hail, Infernal world ! and thou, profoundest Hell, Receive thy new possessor ! one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
Side 212 - No sooner had the Almighty ceased but — all The multitude of Angels, with a shout Loud as from numbers without number, sweet As from blest voices, uttering joy — Heaven rung With jubilee, and loud hosannas filled The eternal regions.
Side 379 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Side 243 - That every man with him was God or devil. In squandering wealth was his peculiar art; Nothing went unrewarded but desert. Beggared by fools, whom still he found too late ; He had his jest, and they had his estate.
Side 190 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds : but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant — descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the...
Side 243 - He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
Side 227 - I' th' middle of his speech, or cough, H' had hard words ready to show why, And tell what rules he did it by ; Else, when with greatest art he spoke, You'd think he talked like other folk.
Side 447 - Who gave you your invulnerable life, Your strength, your speed, your fury, and your joy, Unceasing thunder and eternal foam ? And who commanded — and the silence came — Here let the billows stiffen, and have rest...
Side 149 - Yet his real power is not shown in the splendour of particular passages, but by the progress of his fable and the tenor of his dialogue ; and he that tries to recommend him by select quotations will succeed like the pedant in Hierocles, who, when he offered his house to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen.