English EssaysBlackie & son, limited, 1896 - 257 páginas |
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... tion activity had finally resumed a normal beat , a vast change had taken place in the nature of social life , and there was need of some new form of litera- ture to gratify the cravings of Queen Anne society . It was the work of the ...
... tion activity had finally resumed a normal beat , a vast change had taken place in the nature of social life , and there was need of some new form of litera- ture to gratify the cravings of Queen Anne society . It was the work of the ...
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... tion in literature is that , improving on Evelyn , he pointed out the way to Dryden , who made a yet bolder inroad on the stiffness of Elizabethan prose . When Dryden's masculine vigour had quite broken adrift from the influence of ...
... tion in literature is that , improving on Evelyn , he pointed out the way to Dryden , who made a yet bolder inroad on the stiffness of Elizabethan prose . When Dryden's masculine vigour had quite broken adrift from the influence of ...
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... tion of passages from the Coverley papers , he has framed a character of Sir Roger analogous to Overbury's character of a country squire , and the comparison of this selection with the fully elabo- Their rated conception in the ...
... tion of passages from the Coverley papers , he has framed a character of Sir Roger analogous to Overbury's character of a country squire , and the comparison of this selection with the fully elabo- Their rated conception in the ...
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... support of his conten- tion . The first number of the Bee , Goldsmith's first effort at periodical writing , exhibits the ludicrous spectacle of its author masquerading in Johnsonian buckram . " IMITATIONS OF JOHNSON . xlv.
... support of his conten- tion . The first number of the Bee , Goldsmith's first effort at periodical writing , exhibits the ludicrous spectacle of its author masquerading in Johnsonian buckram . " IMITATIONS OF JOHNSON . xlv.
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... tion unique in English poetry . Of the fourth Letter , with its droll exposure of the inconsistency and brusqueness of the national character , Mr. Dobson remarks that " it is Goldsmith , and Gold- smith only , who could have imagined ...
... tion unique in English poetry . Of the fourth Letter , with its droll exposure of the inconsistency and brusqueness of the national character , Mr. Dobson remarks that " it is Goldsmith , and Gold- smith only , who could have imagined ...
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acquaintance Addison admiration alive almanac appear April Fool beauty Bickerstaff called Cardinal de Noailles character club Cluverius coffee-house conversation criticism Daily Courant death Defoe Defoe's delight discourse Dryden Dunciad endeavour English EPIC POETRY essay essayist fancy followed fool garret genius gentleman give Glastonbury thorn Goldsmith grin hand happy head heart honour hour Hudibras humour imagination Johnson kind lady learning Leigh Hunt letter lion literary literature lived look manner matter mind nature never night objects observed occasion once pain paper Partridge passed passion persons play pleased pleasure poet present Queen readers reason Roger de Coverley says seems Sir Richard Baker Sir Roger sleep Spectator Steele's style Swift Sylvanus Urban Tatler tell things thou thought Tibbs tion told town turn verses whist whole words writing
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Página 3 - Reading maketh a full man ; conference a ready man ; and writing an exact man ; and, therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit ; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets, witty ; the mathematics, subtile ; natural philosophy, deep ; moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend...
Página 3 - Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.
Página 3 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. That is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Página 29 - With thee conversing I forget all time, All seasons and their change, all please alike : Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Página 41 - His tenants grow rich, his servants look satisfied, all the young women profess love to him, and the young men are glad of his company.
Página 75 - I here fetched a deep sigh. Alas, said I, man was made in vain ! how is he given away to misery and mortality ! tortured in life, and swallowed up in death ! The genius being moved with compassion towards me, bade me quit so uncomfortable a prospect. Look no more...
Página 40 - ... a gentleman of Worcestershire, of ancient descent, a baronet, his name Sir Roger de Coverley. His great-grandfather was inventor of that famous country-dance which is called after him. All who know that shire are very well acquainted with the parts and merits of Sir Roger. He is a gentleman that is very singular in his behaviour, but his singularities proceed from his good sense, and are contradictions to the manners of the world, only as he thinks the world is in the wrong.
Página 234 - Then I told how for seven long years, in hope sometimes, sometimes in despair, yet persisting ever, I courted the fair Alice W n ; and, as much as children could understand, I explained to them what coyness, and difficulty, and denial meant in maidens — when suddenly, turning to Alice, the soul of the first Alice looked out at her eyes with such a reality of re-presentment, that I became in doubt which of them stood there before me, or whose that bright hair was...
Página 74 - ... is the vale of misery, and the tide of water that thou seest is part of the great tide of eternity. What is the reason, said I, that the tide I see rises out of a thick mist at one end, and again loses itself in a thick mist at the other? What thou seest...
Página 211 - The Devil was sick, the Devil a monk would be : The Devil grew well, the devil a monk was he...