Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 sivua |
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... verse . The Critique de l'Ecole des Femmes , ' the dialogue of which is prose , is written in a very different style . Among other things , this little piece contains an exquisite , and almost unanswerable defence of the superiority of ...
... verse . The Critique de l'Ecole des Femmes , ' the dialogue of which is prose , is written in a very different style . Among other things , this little piece contains an exquisite , and almost unanswerable defence of the superiority of ...
Sivu 35
... verse over , that we may get upon safe ground again , and recover our good opinion of the author ! A striking and lamentable instance of this may be found ( by any one who chooses ) in the high - flown speeches in Sir Richard Steele's ...
... verse over , that we may get upon safe ground again , and recover our good opinion of the author ! A striking and lamentable instance of this may be found ( by any one who chooses ) in the high - flown speeches in Sir Richard Steele's ...
Sivu 55
... verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so imperfect , that they were only found to be verses by counting the syllables . " If the father of criticism has ...
... verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so imperfect , that they were only found to be verses by counting the syllables . " If the father of criticism has ...
Sivu 56
... verses read like riddles or an allegory . They neither belong to the class of lively or severe poetry . They have not the force of the one , nor the gaiety of the other ; but are an ill - assorted , unprofitable union of the two ...
... verses read like riddles or an allegory . They neither belong to the class of lively or severe poetry . They have not the force of the one , nor the gaiety of the other ; but are an ill - assorted , unprofitable union of the two ...
Sivu 57
... verse . The imagination of the writers , instead of being conversant with the face of nature , or the secrets of the heart , was lost in the labyrinths of intellectual abstraction , or entangled in the technical quibbles and impertinent ...
... verse . The imagination of the writers , instead of being conversant with the face of nature , or the secrets of the heart , was lost in the labyrinths of intellectual abstraction , or entangled in the technical quibbles and impertinent ...
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Sivu 116 - The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of heaven, O how canst thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven ! X.
Sivu 133 - At thirty man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan ; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves and re-resolves; then dies the same.
Sivu 187 - But Nature, in due course of time, once more Shall here put on her beauty and her bloom. "She leaves these objects to a slow decay, That what we are, and have been, may be known ; But at the coming of the milder day These monuments shall all be overgrown.
Sivu 74 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Sivu 132 - tis madness to defer: Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Sivu 91 - Villiers lies — alas ! how changed from him, That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim ! Gallant and gay, in Cliveden's proud alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love ; Or just as gay at council, in a ring Of mimic statesmen and their merry King.
Sivu 189 - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...
Sivu 96 - By a daisy whose leaves spread Shut when Titan goes to bed ; Or a shady bush or tree, She could more infuse in me, Than all Nature's beauties can, In some other wiser man.
Sivu 158 - Kate soon will be a woefu' woman! Now, do thy speedy utmost, Meg, And win the key-stane of the brig; There, at them thou thy tail may toss, A running stream they dare na cross! But ere the key-stane she could make, The fient a tail she had to shake: For Nannie, far before the rest, Hard upon noble Maggie prest, And flew at Tam wi' furious ettle; But little wist she Maggie's mettle!
Sivu 193 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.