The Great English Essayists: With Introductory Essays and NotesHarper & brothers, 1909 - 351 páginas |
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... live more close to the common people . They often chose the site of their homes among the lepers . At London they established themselves in the noisome shambles of Newgate ; at Ox- ford on the swampy land between the Thames and the ...
... live more close to the common people . They often chose the site of their homes among the lepers . At London they established themselves in the noisome shambles of Newgate ; at Ox- ford on the swampy land between the Thames and the ...
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... live under the sweet liberty of nature's first and uncorrupted lawes , I assure thee , I would most willingly have pourtrayed my selfe fully and naked . Thus gentle reader my selfe am the groundworke of my booke . " No exposition of ...
... live under the sweet liberty of nature's first and uncorrupted lawes , I assure thee , I would most willingly have pourtrayed my selfe fully and naked . Thus gentle reader my selfe am the groundworke of my booke . " No exposition of ...
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... Lives of the Poets , which are critical essays . These " sallies " of a full mind , written with an easy sense of power and complete command of wide resources , bring us nearer to Johnson than anything else which he has written . It is ...
... Lives of the Poets , which are critical essays . These " sallies " of a full mind , written with an easy sense of power and complete command of wide resources , bring us nearer to Johnson than anything else which he has written . It is ...
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... live in extreme anguish and pain , all of which thou art free from ? O fortunatos nimium bona si sua norint ; thou art most happy , if thou couldst be content and acknowledge thy happiness ; Rem carendo , non fruendo cognoscimus , when ...
... live in extreme anguish and pain , all of which thou art free from ? O fortunatos nimium bona si sua norint ; thou art most happy , if thou couldst be content and acknowledge thy happiness ; Rem carendo , non fruendo cognoscimus , when ...
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... live in his substance in Heaven , rather than his name and shadow in the earth . And therefore at my death I mean to take a total adieu of the World , not caring for a Monument , History , or Epitaph , not so much as the bare memory of ...
... live in his substance in Heaven , rather than his name and shadow in the earth . And therefore at my death I mean to take a total adieu of the World , not caring for a Monument , History , or Epitaph , not so much as the bare memory of ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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...