English EssaysBlackie & son, limited, 1896 - 257 páginas |
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... present series will deal with the development in English literature of some special literary form , which will be illustrated by a series of representative specimens , slightly anno- tated , and preceded by a critical analytical ...
... present series will deal with the development in English literature of some special literary form , which will be illustrated by a series of representative specimens , slightly anno- tated , and preceded by a critical analytical ...
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... present time , to say where literature begins and journalism ends . In Defoe's time the separation was tolerably broad , and he himself in his early efforts at essay - writing did not succeed in deviating into pure literature . With his ...
... present time , to say where literature begins and journalism ends . In Defoe's time the separation was tolerably broad , and he himself in his early efforts at essay - writing did not succeed in deviating into pure literature . With his ...
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... letters , which with their careful workmanship and obvious insincerity present so vivid a contrast to the pathos of the Journal to Stella or to the un- affected candour of Steele's letters , hold an im- portant xxxiv POPE AND THE GUARDIAN .
... letters , which with their careful workmanship and obvious insincerity present so vivid a contrast to the pathos of the Journal to Stella or to the un- affected candour of Steele's letters , hold an im- portant xxxiv POPE AND THE GUARDIAN .
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... trotted back again into its stable in this way " . This is surely an exaggerated expression of a real truth ; but for our present purpose it is more per- tinent to point out that the statement holds good in xlviii THE CITIZEN OF THE WORLD .
... trotted back again into its stable in this way " . This is surely an exaggerated expression of a real truth ; but for our present purpose it is more per- tinent to point out that the statement holds good in xlviii THE CITIZEN OF THE WORLD .
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... present in his style a touch of archaism which makes one rank him with the earlier essayists rather than with his own vigorous contemporaries . In 1812 he was known only as an unusually capable dramatic critic , and it was not till ...
... present in his style a touch of archaism which makes one rank him with the earlier essayists rather than with his own vigorous contemporaries . In 1812 he was known only as an unusually capable dramatic critic , and it was not till ...
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Página 1 - Reading maketh a full man ; conference a ready man ; and writing an exact man ; and, therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit ; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets, witty ; the mathematics, subtile ; natural philosophy, deep ; moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend...
Página 1 - Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.
Página 1 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. That is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Página 27 - With thee conversing I forget all time, All seasons and their change, all please alike : Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Página 38 - ... a gentleman of Worcestershire, of ancient descent, a baronet, his name Sir Roger de Coverley. His great grandfather was inventor of that famous country-dance which is called after him. All who know that shire are very well acquainted with the parts and merits of Sir Roger. He is a gentleman that is very singular in his behaviour, but his singularities proceed from his good sense, and are contradictions to the manners of the world, only as he thinks the world is in the wrong.
Página 39 - His tenants grow rich, his servants look satisfied, all the young women profess love to him, and the young men are glad of his company.
Página 233 - Then, in somewhat a more heightened tone, I told how, though their great-grandmother Field loved all her grand-children, yet in an especial manner she might be said to love their uncle, John L , because he was so handsome and spirited a youth, and a king to the rest of us...
Página 234 - Then I told how for seven long years, in hope sometimes, sometimes in despair, yet persisting ever, I courted the fair Alice W n ; and, as much as children could understand, I explained to them what coyness, and difficulty, and denial meant in maidens — when suddenly, turning to Alice, the soul of the first Alice looked out at her eyes with such a reality of re-presentment, that I became in doubt which of them stood there before me, or whose that bright hair was...
Página 37 - THE first of our society is a gentleman of Worcestershire, of an ancient descent, a baronet, his name Sir Roger de Coverley. His great grandfather was inventor of that famous country-dance which is called after him. All who know that shire are very well acquainted with the parts and merits of Sir Roger.
Página 65 - There is the angry flutter, the modest flutter, the timorous flutter, the confused flutter, the merry flutter, and the amorous flutter. Not to be tedious, there is scarce any emotion in the mind which does not produce a suitable agitation in the fan; insomuch, that if I only see the fan of a disciplined lady, I know very well whether she laughs, frowns, or blushes.