Development of English Literature and Language, Volumes 1-2Griggs, 1888 - English language |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 78
Page xv
... virtue - making powers . Every thinker , the most original , owes his originality to the originality of all . ' Very little of me , ' said Goethe , ' would be left , if I could but say what I owe to my predecessors and contemporaries ...
... virtue - making powers . Every thinker , the most original , owes his originality to the originality of all . ' Very little of me , ' said Goethe , ' would be left , if I could but say what I owe to my predecessors and contemporaries ...
Page 29
... virtue , on the whole , which is to be rewarded —vice which is to be punished . Far from the Sun , ever downward and northward , is the cave of the giantess Hel , -Naastrand , the strand of corpses . Here are the palace Anguish , the ...
... virtue , on the whole , which is to be rewarded —vice which is to be punished . Far from the Sun , ever downward and northward , is the cave of the giantess Hel , -Naastrand , the strand of corpses . Here are the palace Anguish , the ...
Page 58
... virtue , ' is Latin . How inferior is the second , because less definite than the first . The more concrete the terms , the brighter the picture , as wagon and cart are more vivid than vehicle . Therefore , though many words of Latin ...
... virtue , ' is Latin . How inferior is the second , because less definite than the first . The more concrete the terms , the brighter the picture , as wagon and cart are more vivid than vehicle . Therefore , though many words of Latin ...
Page 60
... virtue and humanity , and which as it is a sovereign antidote against super- stition , is also the most effectual remedy against vice and disorder of every kind . - Hume . Politics . From the primitive stock - Angles and Saxons ...
... virtue and humanity , and which as it is a sovereign antidote against super- stition , is also the most effectual remedy against vice and disorder of every kind . - Hume . Politics . From the primitive stock - Angles and Saxons ...
Page 82
... virtue and the strongest incentives to its practice . Here , in the character and example of the crucified Nazarene , Christianity finds an enduring principle of regenera- tion , by which , though shrouded by disastrous eclipse or ...
... virtue and the strongest incentives to its practice . Here , in the character and example of the crucified Nazarene , Christianity finds an enduring principle of regenera- tion , by which , though shrouded by disastrous eclipse or ...
Contents
19 | |
37 | |
60 | |
73 | |
82 | |
101 | |
117 | |
164 | |
173 | |
182 | |
233 | |
242 | |
252 | |
265 | |
269 | |
272 | |
284 | |
294 | |
297 | |
321 | |
401 | |
126 | |
132 | |
146 | |
172 | |
179 | |
356 | |
365 | |
399 | |
543 | |
546 | |
550 | |
558 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Anglo-Saxon Aristotle beauty breath Britons burning Cædmon called Celts century character Chaucer Christian Church dark death Deism delight divine doth dream earth England English English language eternal eyes fair faith fancy father feeling fire flowers genius glory grace hand happy hath hear heart heaven Henry VIII hope human Iago ideas imagination immortal intellectual Italy king lady language Latin learned less light literary literature live look Lord manner marriage Mephistophilis mind moral nation nature never night noble Odin Othello passed passion Petrarch philosophy Plato pleasure poems poet poetic poetry Pope Puritan religion religious rich Roman Rome Saxon says Scholasticism sentiment Shakespeare sing soul spirit stars style sweet taste thee things thou thought thousand tion truth verse virtue voice Whig wife words write