History of English Literature, Volume 2Edmonston and Douglas, 1871 - English literature |
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... manners show that literature had become a matter of study rather than of inspiration , an employment for the taste rather than for the enthusiasm , a source of distraction rather than of emotion . His audience , his friendships , his ...
... manners show that literature had become a matter of study rather than of inspiration , an employment for the taste rather than for the enthusiasm , a source of distraction rather than of emotion . His audience , his friendships , his ...
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... manners and tastes of the world of fashion , of the idle , the drawing - room frequenters , lovers of pleasure , conversation , wit , and breeding , occupied with the piece in vogue , less to amuse themselves than to criticise it . Thus ...
... manners and tastes of the world of fashion , of the idle , the drawing - room frequenters , lovers of pleasure , conversation , wit , and breeding , occupied with the piece in vogue , less to amuse themselves than to criticise it . Thus ...
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... manners does the excellency of French poetry consist . Their heroes are the most civil people breathing , but their good breeding seldom extends to a word of sense ; all their wit is in their ceremony ; they want the genius which ...
... manners does the excellency of French poetry consist . Their heroes are the most civil people breathing , but their good breeding seldom extends to a word of sense ; all their wit is in their ceremony ; they want the genius which ...
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... manners , he wishes to marry her lawfully , and to repudiate his wife . Still , to omit no expedient , he employs a magician , who utters invocations ( on the stage ) , summons the in- fernal spirits , and brings up a troop of Spirits ...
... manners , he wishes to marry her lawfully , and to repudiate his wife . Still , to omit no expedient , he employs a magician , who utters invocations ( on the stage ) , summons the in- fernal spirits , and brings up a troop of Spirits ...
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... manners of the guardroom and of the alehouse ; I could only believe in Jack Cade's sedition on hearing the dirty words of bestial lewdness and mobbish stupidity . You must let me have the jests , the coarse laughter , drunkenness , the ...
... manners of the guardroom and of the alehouse ; I could only believe in Jack Cade's sedition on hearing the dirty words of bestial lewdness and mobbish stupidity . You must let me have the jests , the coarse laughter , drunkenness , the ...
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Page 282 - I STOOD in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs ; A palace and a prison on each hand : I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles...
Page 246 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Page 189 - WE were now treading that illustrious Island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible.
Page 523 - Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight.
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Page 204 - This day, black Omens threat the brightest Fair, That e'er deserv'da watchful spirit's care; Some dire disaster, or by force, or slight; But what, or where, the fates have wrapt in night. Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law, Or some frail China jar receive a flaw; Or stain her honour or her new brocade; Forget her pray'rs, or miss a masquerade; Or lose her heart, or necklace, at a ball; Or whether Heav'n has doom'd that Shock must fall.
Page 103 - It was said of Socrates, that he brought philosophy down from heaven, to inhabit among men; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought philosophy out of closets and libraries, schools and colleges, to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea-tables and in coffee-houses.
Page 148 - A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends, and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish...