Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United KingdomJ. Murray, 1914 - English literature |
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... early in 1809. That passage settled the complexion of my politics beyond all dispute ; and , " Of course it must have been somebody else whom she had confounded with myself . " Thus far she was compelled to do justice . But , as ...
... early in 1809. That passage settled the complexion of my politics beyond all dispute ; and , " Of course it must have been somebody else whom she had confounded with myself . " Thus far she was compelled to do justice . But , as ...
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... earliest known separate publication of De Quincey was a pamphlet occasioned by the effort made in 1818 by the Whigs , with Brougham as their candidate , to break the electoral ascendancy of the Lowther family in Westmoreland . A casual ...
... earliest known separate publication of De Quincey was a pamphlet occasioned by the effort made in 1818 by the Whigs , with Brougham as their candidate , to break the electoral ascendancy of the Lowther family in Westmoreland . A casual ...
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... earliest ages of European culture . Both in his scientific views and his personal arrogance he presented an im- personation of all the bad qualities distributed in different ages , amongst Apollonius of Tyana - the worst of the ...
... earliest ages of European culture . Both in his scientific views and his personal arrogance he presented an im- personation of all the bad qualities distributed in different ages , amongst Apollonius of Tyana - the worst of the ...
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... early printers was to represent the sounds ; and on the whole the books of the sixteenth century show a spelling that often records contemporary pronuncia- tion quite adequately . It is true that there is great variety , the same word ...
... early printers was to represent the sounds ; and on the whole the books of the sixteenth century show a spelling that often records contemporary pronuncia- tion quite adequately . It is true that there is great variety , the same word ...
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... early stage in school life it is essential that the child should not depend only on the teacher's voice for the communication of know- ledge , but should learn how to use the instrument of the written and printed word ; and we cannot ...
... early stage in school life it is essential that the child should not depend only on the teacher's voice for the communication of know- ledge , but should learn how to use the instrument of the written and printed word ; and we cannot ...
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Page 157 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown ! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword : The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
Page 171 - The observ'd of all observers, quite, quite down ! And I, of ladies most deject and wretched, That suck'd the honey of his music vows, Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled out of tune and harsh; That unmatch'd form and feature of blown
Page 138 - Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot shed Your leaves, nor ever bid the Spring adieu: And, happy melodist, unwearied, For ever piping songs for ever new; More happy love! more happy, happy love! For ever warm and still to be enjoyed, For ever panting, and for ever young; All breathing human passion far above, That leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloyed, A burning forehead, and a parching tongue.
Page 142 - Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night ! Comets, importing change of times and states, Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky, And with them scourge the bad revolting stars That have consented unto Henry's death ! King Henry the Fifth, too famous to live long ! England ne'er lost a king of so much worth.
Page 189 - By all the eagle in thee, all the dove; By all thy lives and deaths of love; By thy large draughts of intellectual day And by thy thirsts of love, more large than they; By all thy...
Page 184 - Whinny-muir thou com'st at last : And Christe receive thy saule. If ever thou gavest hosen and shoon, — Every nighte and alle, Sit thee down and put them on ; And Christe receive thy saule.
Page 262 - So, when this loose behaviour I throw off, And pay the debt I never promised, By how much better than my word I am, By so much shall I falsify men's hopes ; And, like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation, glittering o'er my fault, Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes Than that which hath no foil to set it off.
Page 204 - I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts ; a sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused, Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, And the round ocean and the living air, And the blue sky, and in the mind of man : A motion and a spirit, that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thoughts, And rolls through all things.
Page 55 - ... or for him that farms; But when amid such pleasing scenes I trace The poor laborious natives of the place, And see the mid-day sun, with fervid ray, On their bare heads and dewy temples play; While some, with feebler heads and fainter hearts, Deplore their fortune, yet sustain their parts: Then shall I dare these real ills to hide In tinsel trappings of poetic pride?
Page 130 - ... supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes Factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.