English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature, Volumen1Cassell, limited, 1887 |
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... critical France had advanced , with the help of Boileau , far ahead in a new direction . Colbert looked in upon the dictionary - makers when they had been for some years revising letter A , and found them debating on the sense of the ...
... critical France had advanced , with the help of Boileau , far ahead in a new direction . Colbert looked in upon the dictionary - makers when they had been for some years revising letter A , and found them debating on the sense of the ...
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... critical shortcomings of that work , which may be said to have given the law for some years to French and English literature , nearly all pro- ceed from a wholesome but too servile regard or the example of the ancient classic writers ...
... critical shortcomings of that work , which may be said to have given the law for some years to French and English literature , nearly all pro- ceed from a wholesome but too servile regard or the example of the ancient classic writers ...
Página 66
... critical gospel of Bon Sens ; and the light wits of the day were disposed to follow for some short distance in that direction the lead even of an earnest man , at any rate if French . The period of French influ- ence on English ...
... critical gospel of Bon Sens ; and the light wits of the day were disposed to follow for some short distance in that direction the lead even of an earnest man , at any rate if French . The period of French influ- ence on English ...
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... critical inquiry into literary styles and forms of composition . René Rapin , an elegant writer of Latin , whose treatises on Polite Literature were translated into English by B. Kennet ; René le Bossu , Andrew Dacier and his wife ...
... critical inquiry into literary styles and forms of composition . René Rapin , an elegant writer of Latin , whose treatises on Polite Literature were translated into English by B. Kennet ; René le Bossu , Andrew Dacier and his wife ...
Página 68
... critical taste pro- duced for us a Rymer and a Dennis ? There can be no surer test of the quality of English fashionable and high critical taste during this period of French influence than in the slowness of our critics to per- ceive ...
... critical taste pro- duced for us a Rymer and a Dennis ? There can be no surer test of the quality of English fashionable and high critical taste during this period of French influence than in the slowness of our critics to per- ceive ...
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Página 125 - And he said, BLESSED be the Lord God of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant.
Página 114 - Of indignation; and with shouts that drowned The crash it made in falling ! From the wreck A golden palace rose, or seemed to rise, The appointed seat of equitable law And mild paternal sway. The potent shock I felt; the transformation I perceived, As marvellously seized as in that moment When, from the blind mist issuing, I beheld Glory — beyond all glory ever seen, 720 Confusion infinite of heaven and earth, Dazzling the soul.
Página 83 - If one severe law were made and punctually executed, that whoever was found at a conventicle should be banished th'e nation and the preacher be hanged, we should soon see an end of the tale. They would all come to church, and one age would make us all one again.
Página 51 - Her voice was good, and the ditty fitted for it; it was that smooth song which was made by Kit Marlow, now at least fifty years ago; and the milkmaid's mother sung an answer to it, which was made by Sir Walter Raleigh, in his younger days.
Página 105 - As I am not at all disposed to be either so indulgent, or so correspondent, as they desire, I have but one bad way left to escape the honour they would inflict upon me ; and therefore am obliged to desire you would make Dodsley print it immediately (which may be done in less than a week's time) from your copy, but without my name...
Página 68 - Macbeth', which, though I saw it lately, yet appears a most excellent play in all respects, but especially in divertisement, though it be a deep tragedy; which is a strange perfection in a tragedy, it being most proper here, and suitable.
Página 68 - Dream, which I had never seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life.
Página 65 - I drink, I huff, I strut, look big and stare; And all this I can do, because I dare.
Página 230 - Or the grape's ecstatic juice. Flush'd with mirth and hope they burn: But none from Cattraeth's vale return, Save Aeron brave, and Conan strong (Bursting through the bloody throng), And I, the meanest of them...
Página 74 - I am often put to a stand, in considering whether what I write be the idiom of the tongue, or false grammar, and nonsense couched beneath that specious nameof Anglicism; and have no other way to clear my doubts, but by translating my English into Latin, and thereby trying what sense the words will bear in a more stable language.