The Great English Essayists: With Introductory Essays and NotesHarper & brothers, 1909 - 351 páginas |
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... hand which dispensed the bread of eternal life held in jealous custody the pearl of earthly wisdom ; within the same walls the priest prac- tised the mysteries of his religion and inculcated the rudi- ments of literature ; and to these ...
... hand which dispensed the bread of eternal life held in jealous custody the pearl of earthly wisdom ; within the same walls the priest prac- tised the mysteries of his religion and inculcated the rudi- ments of literature ; and to these ...
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... - books , and still more by the examples of classical antiquity and the great Italians of the Re- naissance ; but he contributed an entirely new element— viz . , the personal note . In his hands 10 THE GENESIS OF THE ESSAY.
... - books , and still more by the examples of classical antiquity and the great Italians of the Re- naissance ; but he contributed an entirely new element— viz . , the personal note . In his hands 10 THE GENESIS OF THE ESSAY.
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... hands the essay approaches to conversation , conversation that is frankly and genially egoistic . He writes to please himself , he follows with de- lighted curiosity the vagrancies of his own mind , he is obsessed by no homiletical ...
... hands the essay approaches to conversation , conversation that is frankly and genially egoistic . He writes to please himself , he follows with de- lighted curiosity the vagrancies of his own mind , he is obsessed by no homiletical ...
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... hand , he gave to the world his Urn Burial . If his heavenly horizon was large , his earthly landscape was proportionately narrow ; his essays are evidently the work of a gentlemanly dreamer , who was born and lived out his life in an ...
... hand , he gave to the world his Urn Burial . If his heavenly horizon was large , his earthly landscape was proportionately narrow ; his essays are evidently the work of a gentlemanly dreamer , who was born and lived out his life in an ...
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... hand . Our life is a pilgrimage on earth , which wise men pass with great alacrity . If thou be in woe , sorrow , want , distress , in pain , or sickness , think of that of our Apostle , God chastiseth them whom he loveth : They that ...
... hand . Our life is a pilgrimage on earth , which wise men pass with great alacrity . If thou be in woe , sorrow , want , distress , in pain , or sickness , think of that of our Apostle , God chastiseth them whom he loveth : They that ...
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Addison admirable April Fool Bacon beauty Bishop Bishop of Beauvais called Carlyle character Charles Lamb Charlesfort critical Daniel Defoe death Defoe delight Doctor Johnson Domrémy earth English essayist eyes fancy fear feel France garret genius give Goldsmith grave Gray hand hath hear heard heart heaven honour human humour hundred John Milton Johnson Jonathan Swift lady learned letter essay literary literature live look Lord ment Milton mind Montaigne moral nature never night observe Oliver Goldsmith once pain pass passion perhaps person pleasure poem poet poetry poor prose reader rest Richard Dowling Samuel Johnson seemed short-story essay sometimes soul spirit Stella style suffer sweet Swift thee things Thomas De Quincey thou thought tion told true truth turn verse whole William Hazlitt words writes young
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Página 329 - Fair youth beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal — yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!
Página 290 - And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age, who will deny that Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling us nearer to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection, — to beauty, in a word, which is only truth seen from another side?
Página 337 - Its loveliness increases ; it will never Pass into nothingness ; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing A flowery band to bind us to the earth...
Página 319 - Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances.
Página 41 - Truth, indeed, came once into the world with her divine Master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on...
Página 222 - So great a man he seems to me, that thinking of him is like thinking of an empire falling. We have other great names to mention — none I think, however, so great or so gloomy.
Página 262 - He heeded not reviling tones, Nor sold his heart to idle moans, Tho' cursed and scorn'd, and bruised with stones; 'But looking upward, full of grace, He pray'd, and from a happy place God's glory smote him on the face.
Página 291 - Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face; some tone on the hills or the sea is choicer than the rest; some mood of passion or insight or intellectual excitement is irresistibly real and attractive to us, — for that moment only.
Página 183 - I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum.
Página 145 - I sat with them until it was very late, sometimes in merry, sometimes in serious discourse, with this particular pleasure which gives the only true relish to all conversation, a sense that every one of us liked each other. I went home, considering the different conditions of a married life and that of a bachelor ; and I must confess it struck me with a secret concern to reflect that whenever I go off I shall leave no traces behind me. In this pensive mood I...