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... original compiler had neither the leisure nor the inclination to undertake ; and with his entire concurrence , it was entrusted to the capable and experienced hands of Mr. W. Hall Griffin , Professor of English Language and Litera- ture ...
... original compiler had neither the leisure nor the inclination to undertake ; and with his entire concurrence , it was entrusted to the capable and experienced hands of Mr. W. Hall Griffin , Professor of English Language and Litera- ture ...
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... original Introduction , ' which , as before , correctly describes its scope and purpose , is there- fore , with a few verbal alterations , still retained . A. D. December 1896 . INTRODUCTION CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. From A.D. 600 to the vi ...
... original Introduction , ' which , as before , correctly describes its scope and purpose , is there- fore , with a few verbal alterations , still retained . A. D. December 1896 . INTRODUCTION CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. From A.D. 600 to the vi ...
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... original research and a philosophic plan do not come within its scheme . To trace the growth and develop- ment of those great latent forces which have determined the direction and the course of English Literature - to recount its ...
... original research and a philosophic plan do not come within its scheme . To trace the growth and develop- ment of those great latent forces which have determined the direction and the course of English Literature - to recount its ...
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... original northern . But West - Saxon writers from King Alfred to Abbot Ælfric still called their language English . The remains of our early literature are but fragmentary . Beo- * Various divisions of English into ' periods ' have been ...
... original northern . But West - Saxon writers from King Alfred to Abbot Ælfric still called their language English . The remains of our early literature are but fragmentary . Beo- * Various divisions of English into ' periods ' have been ...
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... original . Not an accurate scholar himself , he , like Pope in later days , was obliged to render the sense of a passage rather than its exact meaning , while his thoroughly practical nature led him to omit , rearrange , or add to his ...
... original . Not an accurate scholar himself , he , like Pope in later days , was obliged to render the sense of a passage rather than its exact meaning , while his thoroughly practical nature led him to omit , rearrange , or add to his ...
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Page 169 - Lyrical Ballads, in which it was agreed that my endeavours should be directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least romantic — yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief, for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
Page 167 - Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith that all which we behold Is...
Page 87 - "Thou hast said much here of Paradise Lost,' but what hast thou to say of 'Paradise Found?
Page 149 - Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat, To persuade Tommy Townshend ' to lend him a vote ; Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining: Though equal to all things, for all things unfit, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit ; For a patriot, too cool; for a drudge, disobedient, And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. In short 'twas his fate, unemploy'd, or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and...
Page 294 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water ; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them, the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Page 117 - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease : Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Page 303 - Our lingering parents, and to th' eastern gate Led them direct, and down the cliff as fast To the subjected plain; then disappear'd. They looking back, all th...
Page 149 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind...
Page 64 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory (on this side Idolatry) as much as any). He was (indeed) honest, and of an open and free nature : had an excellent Phantsie ; brave notions, and gentle expressions...
Page 224 - He saw thro' life and death, thro' good and ill, He saw thro' his own soul. The marvel of the everlasting will, An open scroll, Before him lay : with echoing feet he threaded The...