The Cambridge History of English Literature: The nineteenth century. ISir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller The University Press, 1915 - English literature |
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... Letters and State Papers of Sir Ralph Sadler , 3 vols . ( 1809 ) ; The Secret History of James I , 2 vols . ( 1811 ) ; the Works of Jonathan Swift with life and notes , 19 vols . ( 1814 ) ; Memorie of the Somervilles ( 1814 ) ; and ...
... Letters and State Papers of Sir Ralph Sadler , 3 vols . ( 1809 ) ; The Secret History of James I , 2 vols . ( 1811 ) ; the Works of Jonathan Swift with life and notes , 19 vols . ( 1814 ) ; Memorie of the Somervilles ( 1814 ) ; and ...
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... letters abundantly show - Byron's great capacity for friendship . In spite of all his misanthropy , no poet has ... letter written from Switzerland in July 1816 , he censures its tone and temper , and acknowledges ' the injustice of much ...
... letters abundantly show - Byron's great capacity for friendship . In spite of all his misanthropy , no poet has ... letter written from Switzerland in July 1816 , he censures its tone and temper , and acknowledges ' the injustice of much ...
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... letters he declares , ' It was the Staubach and the Jungfrau and something else , much more than Faustus , that made ... Letter to John Murray , 7 June 1820 . impenetrable . Speculation has been rife as to the precise 11 ] 47 Manfred.
... letters he declares , ' It was the Staubach and the Jungfrau and something else , much more than Faustus , that made ... Letter to John Murray , 7 June 1820 . impenetrable . Speculation has been rife as to the precise 11 ] 47 Manfred.
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... letters for the full disclosure of his genius and personality , and for a complete understanding of the fact that 1 ... ( Letter to John Murray , 12 October 1817. ) Byron was infinitely greater and more versatile than the Byronic 52 [ CH ...
... letters for the full disclosure of his genius and personality , and for a complete understanding of the fact that 1 ... ( Letter to John Murray , 12 October 1817. ) Byron was infinitely greater and more versatile than the Byronic 52 [ CH ...
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... Letter to Maria Gisborne , of the preceding August , had commemorated a purely intellectual friendship . Unlike Pope's Epistle to Arbuthnot - its only rival among English letters in verse - it ' imitates ' neither Horace nor anyone else ...
... Letter to Maria Gisborne , of the preceding August , had commemorated a purely intellectual friendship . Unlike Pope's Epistle to Arbuthnot - its only rival among English letters in verse - it ' imitates ' neither Horace nor anyone else ...
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Page 341 - The Missing Fragment of the Latin Translation of the Fourth Book of Ezra, discovered, and edited with an Introduction and Notes, and a facsimile of the MS., by ROBERT L.
Page 116 - My own dim life should teach me this, That life shall live for evermore, Else earth is darkness at the core, And dust and ashes all that is ; This round of green, this orb of flame, Fantastic beauty ; such as lurks In some wild Poet, when he works Without a conscience or an aim.
Page 237 - The work is rather too light, and bright, and sparkling; it wants shade; it wants to be stretched out here and there with a long Chapter of sense, if it could be had; if not, of solemn specious nonsense, about something unconnected with the Story; an Essay on Writing, a critique on Walter Scott, or the history of Buonaparte, or anything that would form a contrast, and bring the reader with increased delight to the playfulness and Epigrammatism of the general style.
Page 45 - The Giaour, the Bride of Abydos, the Corsair, Lara, the Siege of Corinth...
Page 105 - Having quitted the Borders, to seek new renown, Is coming, by long Quarto stages to Town : And beginning with ROKEBY (the job's sure to pay.) Means to do all the Gentlemen's Seats on the way. Now, the Scheme is (though none of our Hackneys can beat him) To start a fresh Poet through Highgate to meet him ; ' , Who, by means of quick proofs— no revises— long coaches — May do a few Villas, before Sc — TT approaches.
Page 29 - The disk of the sun became almost totally obscured ere he had altogether sunk below the horizon, and an early and lurid shade of darkness blotted the serene twilight of a summer evening.
Page 175 - I hate to see a load of bandboxes go along the street, and I hate to see a parcel of big words without anything in them.
Page 203 - When I heard of the death of Coleridge, it was without grief. It seemed to me that he long had been on the confines of the next world, — that he had a hunger for eternity. I grieved then that I could not grieve. But since, I feel how great a part he was of me. His great and dear spirit haunts me. I cannot think a thought, I cannot make a criticism on men or books, without an ineffectual turning and reference to him. He was the proof and touchstone of all my cogitations.
Page 2 - No funeral hearse crept more leisurely than did his landau up the Canongate or the Cowgate ; and not a queer tottering gable but recalled to him some long-buried memory of splendour or bloodshed, which, by a few words, he set before the hearer in the reality of life.