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... Modern Literature Appears to Begin with Time of Addison and Pope . II . Beginnings of Modern English Prose . -Hobbes's " Leviathan . " - Burton's " Anatomy of Melancholy . " - Mil- ton's Prose . - Change appears with Dryden . III ...
... Modern Literature Appears to Begin with Time of Addison and Pope . II . Beginnings of Modern English Prose . -Hobbes's " Leviathan . " - Burton's " Anatomy of Melancholy . " - Mil- ton's Prose . - Change appears with Dryden . III ...
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... modern literature , it is necessary to go back to find out the origin of the theories and the formulas then existing , to see what influences were at work , and to learn the general current of the thought of the time . Even if these ...
... modern literature , it is necessary to go back to find out the origin of the theories and the formulas then existing , to see what influences were at work , and to learn the general current of the thought of the time . Even if these ...
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... modern civilization began to be fixed towards the end of the seventeenth century . Ad- miration for intellectual greatness does not produce this feeling of kinship so surely as does agreement in looking at practical questions , and our ...
... modern civilization began to be fixed towards the end of the seventeenth century . Ad- miration for intellectual greatness does not produce this feeling of kinship so surely as does agreement in looking at practical questions , and our ...
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... modern acquirement . Even Milton , with his wonderful ear for rhythm , was often as clumsy as the others when he undertook to write prose , which was the work , as he said , of his left hand . For instance ( " The Reason of Church ...
... modern acquirement . Even Milton , with his wonderful ear for rhythm , was often as clumsy as the others when he undertook to write prose , which was the work , as he said , of his left hand . For instance ( " The Reason of Church ...
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... modern society . The light came from an- tiquity that expelled the dull gloom of the dark ages , and the world seemed young again . The fall of Con- stantinople in 1453 sent a number of Greeks to seek new homes in Europe , where they ...
... modern society . The light came from an- tiquity that expelled the dull gloom of the dark ages , and the world seemed young again . The fall of Con- stantinople in 1453 sent a number of Greeks to seek new homes in Europe , where they ...
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Page 137 - 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 passed), 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 52 - He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
Page 249 - A brighter wash; to curl their waving hairs, Assist their blushes, and inspire their airs; Nay oft, in dreams, invention we bestow, To change a flounce, or add a furbelow.
Page 53 - In the first rank of these did Zimri stand ;* A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 106 - tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and, while it says, we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
Page 245 - Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Page 389 - In our little journey up to the Grande Chartreuse, I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an exclamation, that there was no restraining. Not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry.
Page 52 - With public zeal to cancel private crimes. How safe is treason and how sacred ill, Where none can sin against the people's will, "Where crowds can wink and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own ! Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge.
Page 53 - Blest madman! who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy. Railing and praising were his usual themes; And both, to show his judgment, in extremes; So over violent, or over civil, That every man with him was god or devil.
Page 23 - That hath a mint of phrases in his brain : One, whom the music of his own vain tongue Doth ravish, like enchanting harmony...