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... sense which characterises , with occasional splendid excep- tions , the prose ; and that unimaginative and monotonous clas- sicism which marks the courtly school of poetry , and which was not to be supplanted by anything truly national ...
... sense which characterises , with occasional splendid excep- tions , the prose ; and that unimaginative and monotonous clas- sicism which marks the courtly school of poetry , and which was not to be supplanted by anything truly national ...
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... sense a man of the world : he was the ornament of two of the most brilliant courts in the annals of England those of Edward III . , and his successor Richard II . He also accompanied the former king in his expedition into France , and ...
... sense a man of the world : he was the ornament of two of the most brilliant courts in the annals of England those of Edward III . , and his successor Richard II . He also accompanied the former king in his expedition into France , and ...
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... sense of Terence's : homo sum ; humani nihil a me alienum puto " -is the heritage of only the greatest among mankind ; and is but an example of that deep truth which Nature herself has taught us , when she placed in the hu- man heart ...
... sense of Terence's : homo sum ; humani nihil a me alienum puto " -is the heritage of only the greatest among mankind ; and is but an example of that deep truth which Nature herself has taught us , when she placed in the hu- man heart ...
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... sense with which honest Harry Bailey , the Host , sways the merry sceptre of his temporary sovereignty . This then is the framework or scaffolding on which Chaucer has erected his Canterbury Tales . The practice of connecting together a ...
... sense with which honest Harry Bailey , the Host , sways the merry sceptre of his temporary sovereignty . This then is the framework or scaffolding on which Chaucer has erected his Canterbury Tales . The practice of connecting together a ...
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... sense of the services he had rendered to the human race , “ his name and memory to foreign nations , and to mine own coun- try after some time is passed over . " It is singular enough that the death of this great philosopher should have ...
... sense of the services he had rendered to the human race , “ his name and memory to foreign nations , and to mine own coun- try after some time is passed over . " It is singular enough that the death of this great philosopher should have ...
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Page 41 - Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine: I have never heard Praise of love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine.
Page 297 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
Page 187 - Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.
Page 288 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berccau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
Page 231 - I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives, to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.
Page 239 - 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 242 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Page 127 - Invest me in my motley ; give me leave To speak my mind, and I will through and through Cleanse the foul body of the infected world, If they will patiently receive my medicine.
Page 151 - With antic pillars massy proof, And storied windows, richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow To the full-voiced choir below, In service high and anthems clear, As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all heaven before mine eyes.
Page 116 - You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!