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Philosophy of Human Mind; Outlines of William Wordsworth (1770- Excursion; The Prelude; Lyrics. 1850) Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832). Lay of Last Minstrel, Marmion, Lady of the Lake, Rokeby (Poems); Waverley Novels. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772- The Ancient Mariner, Christabel, Gene1834) vieve (Poems); Aids to Reflection, Lectures on Shakespeare (Prose). Robert Southey (1774-1843). Thalaba, Roderick, Curse of Kehama Charles Lamb (1775-1834) Thomas Campbell (1771-1844) Henry Hallam (1778-1859) Thomas Moore (1779-1852) . Thomas De Quincey (17851859) (Poems); Life of Nelson (Prose). Essays of Elia. Pleasures of Hope, Gertrude of Wyoming (Poems); Life of Petrarch (Prose). Europe during Middle Ages; Constitu tional History of England. Lalla Rookh; Irish Melodies. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (Prose). Sir William Hamilton (1788- Lectures on Metaphysics and Logics. 1854) Lord Byron (1788-1824). Childe Harold, Corsair, Lara, Don Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792- Queen Mab, Revolt of Islam, Pro1822) Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881). French Revolution; Oliver Cromwell ; metheus Unbound, The Cloud (Poems). Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804- Twice Told Tales; History of New York 1864) Lord Lytton (1805-1873) Earl of Beaconsfield (Benjamin John Stuart Mill (1806-1873). (American). Lady of Lyons (Poem); My Novel; The Henrietta Temple; Coningsby, etc. Political Economy; Logics. Golden Legend, Evangeline, Tales of a William Makepeace Thackeray Colonel Newcombe, Vanity Fair (Novels); (1811-1863) Charles Dickens (1812-1870). Charlotte Bronte (1815-1855). Mary Evans (George Eliot) (1820-1880) The Four Georges. Pickwick Papers, Bleak House, Dombey Villette, Shirley, etc. (Novels). Newspapers and Magazines. The Weekly News, 1622. The Kingdom's Intelligencer, 1662. Gentleman's Journal, 1692, FIRST magazine. The Review, 1704 (Defoe). The Daily Courant, the FIRST Morning Paper, 1709. The Tatler, 1709-1711. The Spectator, 1711-1712. (Addison and Steele.) The Guardian, 1713. The Craftsman, 1726 (Bolingbroke). Gentleman's Magazine, 1731. The Rambler, 1750-1752. The Idler, 1758-1760. (Dr. Johnson.) The Mirror, 1779-1780 (Henry Mackenzie, Author of The Man of Feeling). The Daily Universal Register, 1785, called THE TIMES in 1788. The Edinburgh Review, 1802 (Jeffrey, Macaulay, Sydney Smith, Macintosh, Hazlitt, Brougham). The Quarterly Review, 1809 (Gifford, Croker, Heber, Coleridge, Scott, Southey). THE BIBLE. If the student will study carefully the language of Shakespeare and the Scriptures, he will acquire no mean knowledge of Our Mother Tongue.' (The peculiarities of Shakespeare have already been briefly discussed.) Apart from its claims to Inspiration, THE BIBLE deserves at least a passing notice on account of its literary excellence and influence. It is the richest specimen we have of the beauty and force of the old Saxon speech. The conversation of unlettered persons who have read their Bible only, is often marked by nervous force and simple dignity. In many and extensive passages thirtynine-fortieths of the words are of Saxon origin. To a considerable extent, the above remarks apply to the Prayer-book also. Into Anglo-Saxon Translations. Bishop Adhelm translated the Psalter; Bede, the Gospel of St. John; King Alfred, several chapters of Exodus, and various other portions. Into English Wiclif, 1388: Tyndale, 1526; Coverdale, 1535; Matthews and (a) Adjectives are expressed by Prepositional Phrases, e.g.(1 Thess. i. 3.) 'Your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope'= 'Your faithful work, your loving labour, your hopeful patience.' (b) Definite numbers are often used indefinitely— Ten means several (Gen. xxxi. 7; Dan. i. 20). Seven and seventy are used to express a large and complete, though uncertain number. (c) Comparison is frequently intimated by Adverbs of Negation. (Gen. xlv. 8; Prov. viii. 10; Mark ix. 37; Eph. vi. 12.) (d) Use of Cognate Objectives instead of Adverbs (a) After Intransitive Verbs, e.g. I have fought a good fight ;' 'They have slept their sleep.' (b) After Prepositions-They rejoiced with exceeding great joy;' 'The people shouted with a great shout.' III. Words used in Obsolete Senses. Advertise (Numb. xxiv. 14) Audience (Luke vii. 1) Artillery (1 Sam. xx. 40) Carriage (Acts xxi. 15) Charity (2 Cor. xiii. 2) Coasts (Jud. xviii. 2) Damnation (1 Cor. ii. 29) To ear the ground (1 Sam. viii. 12) Convince (John viii. 46) Dispensation (1 Cor. ix. 17) Frankly (Luke vii. 42) Harness (Ex. xiii. 18) Heads (Gen. ii. 10) Leasing (Ps. iv. 2) means to inform. bows and arrows. love. condemnation. to till. freely. armour. sources. lying. |