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... beginning , and with no analytic index at the end . It is lacking in perspective ; in sharp and obvious divisions of the great departments of the subject ; in such an adjustment of materials under these departments as to separate the ...
... beginning , and with no analytic index at the end . It is lacking in perspective ; in sharp and obvious divisions of the great departments of the subject ; in such an adjustment of materials under these departments as to separate the ...
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... Beginning of the Era of French Literary Influence in Eng- land . - 3 . The New Criticism ; Thomas Rymer . -4 . Edmund Waller . - 5 . Abraham Cowley ; Henry Vaughan . - 6 . Samuel Butler . - 7 . Andrew Marvel . - 8 . Sir William Davenant ...
... Beginning of the Era of French Literary Influence in Eng- land . - 3 . The New Criticism ; Thomas Rymer . -4 . Edmund Waller . - 5 . Abraham Cowley ; Henry Vaughan . - 6 . Samuel Butler . - 7 . Andrew Marvel . - 8 . Sir William Davenant ...
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... beginning of a litera- ture , he thought himself at the end of one ; and in his poems he asks forbearance of his readers , on the plea that all the harvest of poetry had then been reaped by his predecessors , and that he could only go ...
... beginning of a litera- ture , he thought himself at the end of one ; and in his poems he asks forbearance of his readers , on the plea that all the harvest of poetry had then been reaped by his predecessors , and that he could only go ...
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... beginning with 1350 , - at the threshold of our Period of Early Modern English , we have arranged English writers and their works in groupings of half - centuries , as " The First Half of the Eigh- teenth Century , " " The Second Half ...
... beginning with 1350 , - at the threshold of our Period of Early Modern English , we have arranged English writers and their works in groupings of half - centuries , as " The First Half of the Eigh- teenth Century , " " The Second Half ...
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... beginning earlier or learning faster , brought higher results of experience out of some part of the region that we now call Asia . Generation after generation came and went , and then Europe was peopled by tribes different in temper ...
... beginning earlier or learning faster , brought higher results of experience out of some part of the region that we now call Asia . Generation after generation came and went , and then Europe was peopled by tribes different in temper ...
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Page 324 - Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
Page 477 - The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind who will but consult it that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.
Page 523 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel by divine command With rising tempests shakes a guilty land, Such as of late o'er pale Britannia past, Calm and serene he drives the furious blast ; And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm.
Page 288 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! Heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtle flame As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life.
Page 360 - ... a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit, or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect, or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon, or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention, or a shop for profit and sale ; and not a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Page 407 - THERE was an ancient sage philosopher That had read Alexander Ross over, And swore the world, as he could prove, Was made of fighting and of love. Just so Romances are, for what else Is in them all but love and battles ? O' th' first of these w' have no great matter To treat of, but a world o' th' latter, In which to do the injured right We mean, in what concerns just fight.
Page 332 - YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due; For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.
Page 539 - Humour can prevail, When Airs, and Flights, and Screams, and Scolding fail. Beauties in vain their pretty Eyes may roll ; Charms strike the Sight, but Merit wins the Soul.
Page 388 - The conscience, friend, to have lost them overplied In Liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which all Europe rings from side to side. This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content, though blind, had I no better guide.
Page 398 - All is best, though we oft doubt, What the unsearchable dispose Of Highest Wisdom brings about, And ever best found in the close. Oft He seems to hide His face, But unexpectedly returns, And to His faithful champion hath in place Bore witness gloriously...