The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volum 6David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler F.P. Kaiser, 1900 - 4190 sider |
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... our rude and homely manner of vulgar poesie , from that it had been . before , and for that cause may justly be said the first reformers of our English metre and style . In the same 2050 HENRY HALLAM Poets Who Made Shakespeare Possible.
... our rude and homely manner of vulgar poesie , from that it had been . before , and for that cause may justly be said the first reformers of our English metre and style . In the same 2050 HENRY HALLAM Poets Who Made Shakespeare Possible.
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... cause of this tendency to say what is most pleas- ing to women is likely to be as permanent as the distinction of ... causes for apprehension have no existence , and he can safely be more himself . These considerations lead me to hope ...
... cause of this tendency to say what is most pleas- ing to women is likely to be as permanent as the distinction of ... causes for apprehension have no existence , and he can safely be more himself . These considerations lead me to hope ...
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... causes ; but it cannot be by the prowess of an army so inconsiderable as that which has been usually kept up within the kingdom . If we are wise enough to preserve the union , we may for ages enjoy an advantage similar to that of an ...
... causes ; but it cannot be by the prowess of an army so inconsiderable as that which has been usually kept up within the kingdom . If we are wise enough to preserve the union , we may for ages enjoy an advantage similar to that of an ...
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... causes equality of power , and equality of power is the liberty not only of the commonwealth , but of every man . But sure a man would never be thus irreverent with the greatest authors , and positive against all antiquity , without ...
... causes equality of power , and equality of power is the liberty not only of the commonwealth , but of every man . But sure a man would never be thus irreverent with the greatest authors , and positive against all antiquity , without ...
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... cause the whole edifice to give the impression of a dream , which might be dissipated and shat- tered to fragments by merely stamping the foot upon the pave- ment . Yet , with such modifications and repairs as successive ages demand ...
... cause the whole edifice to give the impression of a dream , which might be dissipated and shat- tered to fragments by merely stamping the foot upon the pave- ment . Yet , with such modifications and repairs as successive ages demand ...
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The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volum 6 David Josiah Brewer Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1900 |
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Side 2338 - Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people— a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs...
Side 2273 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill, Smit with the love of sacred song; but chief Thee, Sion, and the...
Side 2334 - The observed of all observers, quite, quite down! And I, of ladies most deject and wretched, That sucked the honey of his music vows, Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh ; That unmatched form and feature of blown youth Blasted with ecstasy. O, woe is me, To have seen what I have seen, see what I see!
Side 2321 - ... and beauty of the grove ; graceful in its form, bright in its foliage, but with the worm preying at its heart. We find it suddenly withering, when it should be most fresh and luxuriant. We see it drooping its branches to the earth, and shedding leaf by leaf; until, wasted...
Side 2199 - It may seem strange to some man that has not well weighed these things that nature should thus dissociate and render men apt to invade and destroy one another; and he may therefore, not trusting to this inference made from the passions, desire perhaps to have the same confirmed by experience.
Side 2438 - In behint yon auld fail dyke I wot there lies a new-slain Knight; And naebody kens that he lies there, But his hawk, his hound, and lady fair. ' His hound is to the hunting gane, His hawk to fetch the wild-fowl hame,. His lady's...
Side 2402 - I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, "Would he had blotted out a thousand!" which they thought a malevolent speech.
Side 2402 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory (on this side Idolatry) as much as any). He was (indeed) honest, and of an open, and free nature : had an excellent fancy; brave notions, and gentle expressions...
Side 2126 - The husband and wife, drinking deep of peaceful joy — a calm bliss of temperate affections — shall pass hand in hand through life, and lie down, not reluctantly, at its protracted close. To them, the past will be no turmoil of mad dreams, nor the future an eternity of such moments as follow the delirium of the drunkard. Their dead faces shall express what their spirits were, and are to be, by a lingering smile of memory and hope.
Side 2400 - Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet, that quality without which judgment is cold and knowledge is inert, that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates, the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden.