The Age of Pope (1700-1744).G. Bell and sons, 1899 - 260 sider |
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... literary statistics , and has nothing more to offer . Historical facts and figures have their uses , and are , indeed , indispensable ; but it is possible to gain the most accurate knowledge of a literary period and to be totally ...
... literary statistics , and has nothing more to offer . Historical facts and figures have their uses , and are , indeed , indispensable ; but it is possible to gain the most accurate knowledge of a literary period and to be totally ...
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... literary herald of a century which , in the earlier half at least , is remarkable in the use it makes of our mother tongue for the exercise of common sense . The Revolution of 1688 produced a change in English politics scarcely more ...
... literary herald of a century which , in the earlier half at least , is remarkable in the use it makes of our mother tongue for the exercise of common sense . The Revolution of 1688 produced a change in English politics scarcely more ...
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... literary merits of the Queen Anne time are due to inven- tion , fancy , and wit , to a genius for satire exhibited in verse and prose , to a regard for correctness of form and to the sen- sitive avoidance of extremes . The poets of the ...
... literary merits of the Queen Anne time are due to inven- tion , fancy , and wit , to a genius for satire exhibited in verse and prose , to a regard for correctness of form and to the sen- sitive avoidance of extremes . The poets of the ...
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... literary character of the age . If Englishmen owed a debt to France the obligation was reciprocal . Voltaire affords a prominent illustration of the power wielded by our literature . He imitated Addison , he imi- tated , or caught ...
... literary character of the age . If Englishmen owed a debt to France the obligation was reciprocal . Voltaire affords a prominent illustration of the power wielded by our literature . He imitated Addison , he imi- tated , or caught ...
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... literary journal did not exist in the days when Addison gave his little senate laws ' at Button's , and perhaps it does not exist now , but if critical injustice be done in our day it is rarely owing to political causes . 6 One of the ...
... literary journal did not exist in the days when Addison gave his little senate laws ' at Button's , and perhaps it does not exist now , but if critical injustice be done in our day it is rarely owing to political causes . 6 One of the ...
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Side 99 - Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Side 92 - I hear a voice, you cannot hear, Which says, I must not stay; I see a hand, you cannot see, Which beckons me away.
Side 26 - Ixion fixed, the wretch shall feel The giddy motion of the whirling mill, In fumes of burning chocolate shall glow, And tremble at the sea that froths below!
Side 128 - She was a very beautiful woman, of a noble spirit, and there was a dignity in her grief amidst all the wildness of her transport; which, methought, struck me with an instinct of sorrow, that, before I was sensible of what it was to grieve, seized my very soul, and has made pity the weakness of my heart ever since.
Side 196 - Sir, he was a scoundrel, and a coward : a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality ; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger after his death...
Side 66 - How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful is man...
Side 73 - As home he goes beneath the joyous moon. Ye that keep watch in heaven, as earth asleep Unconscious lies, effuse your mildest beams, Ye constellations, while your angels strike, Amid the spangled sky, the silver lyre. Great source of day! best image here below Of thy Creator, ever pouring wide, From world to world, the vital ocean round, On Nature write with every beam His praise.
Side 26 - Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride...
Side 224 - Comes slowly grazing through the adjoining meads, Whose stealing pace and lengthened shade we fear, Till torn-up forage in his teeth we hear; When nibbling sheep at large pursue their food, And unmolested kine rechew the cud; When curlews cry beneath the village walls, And to her straggling brood the partridge calls...
Side 98 - Now was excited his delight in rural pleasures, and his ambition of rural elegance : he began from this time to point his prospects, to diversify his surface, to entangle his walks, and to wind his waters ; which he did with such judgment and such fancy, as made his little domain the envy of the great, and the admiration of the .skilful ; a place to be visited by travellers, and copied by designers.