Introduction to American Literature: Or, The Origin and Development of the English Language, with Gems of PoetryDerby, Bradley, 1846 - 420 sivua |
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... eighteenth century is analysed in a few words , as it embraced but a single school . Mr. Griswold's complete work on the Poets and Poetry of England in the nine- teenth century has rendered any thing further on the English 4 PREFACE .
... eighteenth century is analysed in a few words , as it embraced but a single school . Mr. Griswold's complete work on the Poets and Poetry of England in the nine- teenth century has rendered any thing further on the English 4 PREFACE .
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... words ; It rose , -It flour- ished , and declined : and that embraces the whole of it . Here its career closes , and is sealed up forever . It is a solemn truth , that when a nation's literature becomes corrupt , its sun sinks to rise ...
... words ; It rose , -It flour- ished , and declined : and that embraces the whole of it . Here its career closes , and is sealed up forever . It is a solemn truth , that when a nation's literature becomes corrupt , its sun sinks to rise ...
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... words , which results in precision of thought , and harmony of construction , are derived from the poet . credulous times , his mission would have been thought divine , had he done no more than this : to raise his native tongue above ...
... words , which results in precision of thought , and harmony of construction , are derived from the poet . credulous times , his mission would have been thought divine , had he done no more than this : to raise his native tongue above ...
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... words as sensibly as the cultivated ear enjoys the charm of music . If the charms of music are ever wholly independent of language , its fine harmo- nies always increase the effect of music , and being always in unison with , and ...
... words as sensibly as the cultivated ear enjoys the charm of music . If the charms of music are ever wholly independent of language , its fine harmo- nies always increase the effect of music , and being always in unison with , and ...
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... words with childish trips , Half unpronounced , slide through my infant lips , Driving dum silence from the portal door , Where he had mutely sat two years before : Here I salute thee . MILTON . We may define language , if we consider ...
... words with childish trips , Half unpronounced , slide through my infant lips , Driving dum silence from the portal door , Where he had mutely sat two years before : Here I salute thee . MILTON . We may define language , if we consider ...
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