Literary Studies: A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays, Volumes 1-2E. Walker, 1847 - English literature |
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... true secret of excellence , to discriminate the pe- culiar and characteristic traits of the author and award him the palm which shall continue fresh and green in the eyes of posterity . Of many copious authors , how little is now ...
... true secret of excellence , to discriminate the pe- culiar and characteristic traits of the author and award him the palm which shall continue fresh and green in the eyes of posterity . Of many copious authors , how little is now ...
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... true and genial criticism , speculations on life and the principles and motives of human actions ; these form the favorite reading of the best class of readers in all ages— and although the readers of Addison and Steele may , at the ...
... true and genial criticism , speculations on life and the principles and motives of human actions ; these form the favorite reading of the best class of readers in all ages— and although the readers of Addison and Steele may , at the ...
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... true position of this author in the literary republic , has been well defined by Macaulay , as that of a most liberal , fair and accurate political historian . But it will be readily seen that the very qualities that best fit Hallam for ...
... true position of this author in the literary republic , has been well defined by Macaulay , as that of a most liberal , fair and accurate political historian . But it will be readily seen that the very qualities that best fit Hallam for ...
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... true moral wisdom as genuine learning is different from the pedant- ry of books and colleges . The morality of ethical novels is generally a conventional mannerism : the pretensions to piety savor of puritanical assumption . The ...
... true moral wisdom as genuine learning is different from the pedant- ry of books and colleges . The morality of ethical novels is generally a conventional mannerism : the pretensions to piety savor of puritanical assumption . The ...
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... true field — and there she was admirable- ( for , in spite of many drawbacks , she had great talent ) , was , prose fiction in the shape of moral tracts ( good Sunday reading ) for the plainer class of people , and which would impress ...
... true field — and there she was admirable- ( for , in spite of many drawbacks , she had great talent ) , was , prose fiction in the shape of moral tracts ( good Sunday reading ) for the plainer class of people , and which would impress ...
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Page 71 - MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel...
Page 68 - Piety displays Her mouldering roll, the piercing eye explores New manners, and the pomp of elder days, Whence culls the pensive bard his pictur'd stores. Nor rough, nor barren, are the winding ways Of hoar Antiquity, but strown with flowers.
Page 63 - SLEEP, Silence' child, sweet father of soft rest, Prince, whose approach peace to all mortals brings, Indifferent host to shepherds and to kings, Sole comforter of minds with grief...
Page 86 - With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows, richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow To the full-voiced quire 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 58 - Come, Sleep, O Sleep, the certain knot of peace, The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, The indifferent judge between the high and low!
Page 58 - ... most alone in greatest company, With dearth of words, or answers quite awry, To them that would make speech of speech arise; They deem, and of their doom the rumour flies, That poison foul of bubbling Pride doth lie So in my swelling breast, that only I Fawn on myself, and others do despise; Yet Pride, I think, doth not my soul possess, Which looks too oft in his unflattering glass; But one worse fault — Ambition — I confess, That makes me oft my best friends overpass, Unseen, unheard —...
Page 105 - THERE are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as these. The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an Angel's wing.
Page 65 - If deed of honour did thee ever please, Guard them, and him within protect from harms. He can requite thee, for he knows the charms That call fame on such gentle acts as these, And he can spread thy name o'er lands and seas, Whatever clime the sun's bright circle warms. Lift not thy spear against the Muses...
Page 86 - But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embow-ed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.
Page 113 - It is, properly, from the elevated mind of France, that the folly of titles has been abolished.