Manual of English Literature: Era of Expansion, 1750-1850. Its Characteristics and Influences, and the Poetry of Its Period of Preparation, 1750-1800. With Biographical AppendixWhitcombe and Tombs Limited, 1894 - 406 páginas |
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... took the side of Wilkes and reform against the king and Bute , and attacked most of the eminent men of the time including Garrick , Smollett , and Falconer , who replied . ( 3 ) He quarrelled with Hogarth and Dr. Johnson , and in all ...
... took the side of Wilkes and reform against the king and Bute , and attacked most of the eminent men of the time including Garrick , Smollett , and Falconer , who replied . ( 3 ) He quarrelled with Hogarth and Dr. Johnson , and in all ...
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... took to novel- writing . It became indeed one of the most striking phenomena of our period , the number of authoresses who appeared . And it was women like Jane Austen , Miss Mitford , Miss Edgeworth , and Miss Ferrier who did most to ...
... took to novel- writing . It became indeed one of the most striking phenomena of our period , the number of authoresses who appeared . And it was women like Jane Austen , Miss Mitford , Miss Edgeworth , and Miss Ferrier who did most to ...
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... took up their abode in Florence . Say + was like s 6. There can be little doubt that this was the great era of decentralisation of English literature ; and though the move- ment did not wholly cease after 1850 on account of the great ...
... took up their abode in Florence . Say + was like s 6. There can be little doubt that this was the great era of decentralisation of English literature ; and though the move- ment did not wholly cease after 1850 on account of the great ...
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... took the place of listening ; or rather , by incorporating the sermon , essay , satire , study of character , philosophical theory , biography , travels , or history in it , it superseded all other literature for the new reading public ...
... took the place of listening ; or rather , by incorporating the sermon , essay , satire , study of character , philosophical theory , biography , travels , or history in it , it superseded all other literature for the new reading public ...
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... took new colour and life . It glowed with such passion that it seemed to the writers and speakers to be born again . Such a hackneyed theme B as love , dealt with a thousand times over from CHARACTERISTICS AND INFLUENCES 17.
... took new colour and life . It glowed with such passion that it seemed to the writers and speakers to be born again . Such a hackneyed theme B as love , dealt with a thousand times over from CHARACTERISTICS AND INFLUENCES 17.
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Página 236 - An honest man's the noblest work of God ;" And, certes,* in fair virtue's heavenly road, The cottage leaves the palace far behind. What is a lordling's pomp ? A cumbrous load, Disguising oft the wretch of human kind! Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refined ! O Scotia, my dear, my native soil!
Página 311 - But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover! A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover!
Página 301 - If the time should ever come when what is now called science, thus familiarized to men, shall be ready to put on, as it were, a form of flesh and blood, the Poet will lend his divine spirit to aid the transfiguration, and will welcome the Being thus produced, as a dear and genuine inmate of the household of man...
Página 118 - Remembrance wakes with all her busy train, Swells at my breast, and turns the past to pain.
Página 240 - O'er a' the ills o' life victorious! But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the...
Página 312 - I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome! those caves of ice! And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware! Beware! His flashing eyes, his floating hair! Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.
Página 288 - Action is transitory — a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle — this way or that — 'Tis done, and in the after-vacancy We wonder at ourselves like men betrayed : Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
Página 276 - Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: "Pipe a song about a Lamb!' So I piped with merry cheer. 'Piper, pipe that song again;
Página 250 - He loved the world that hated him : the tear That dropped upon his Bible was sincere : Assailed by scandal and the tongue of strife, His only answer was, a blameless life ; And he that forged, and he that threw the dart, Had each a brother's interest in his heart.
Página 294 - Love, now a universal birth, From heart to heart is stealing, From earth to man, from man to earth: — It is the hour of feeling.