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... criticism . I have also received at every step valuable suggestions from Pro- fessor Samuel Henry Dickson , of the Jefferson Medical School , Phila- delphia . The materials for the sketches of writers still living , containing facts not ...
... criticism . I have also received at every step valuable suggestions from Pro- fessor Samuel Henry Dickson , of the Jefferson Medical School , Phila- delphia . The materials for the sketches of writers still living , containing facts not ...
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... critics spoke of it slightingly . Extracts from it , however , were printed from time to time , by differ- ent explorers , which gradually increased the public estimation of its merits , and , at length , in 1847 , it was printed , Sir ...
... critics spoke of it slightingly . Extracts from it , however , were printed from time to time , by differ- ent explorers , which gradually increased the public estimation of its merits , and , at length , in 1847 , it was printed , Sir ...
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... critics , and is still occasionally read . Though written in a style now antiquated , it is in some respects to this day the best argument extant on the subject of which it treats . Sidney's fame as an author now rests upon these two ...
... critics , and is still occasionally read . Though written in a style now antiquated , it is in some respects to this day the best argument extant on the subject of which it treats . Sidney's fame as an author now rests upon these two ...
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... critics of a later date ; but his poems have failed to hold a permanent place in literature . Works : Britannia's Pastorals ; The Shep- herd's Pipe ; The Inner Temple , a Masque , etc. SAMUEL ROWLANDS , - - 1634 , was the author of many ...
... critics of a later date ; but his poems have failed to hold a permanent place in literature . Works : Britannia's Pastorals ; The Shep- herd's Pipe ; The Inner Temple , a Masque , etc. SAMUEL ROWLANDS , - - 1634 , was the author of many ...
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... critics . He was the author of a poem called Parænesis ; Aurora , which was a collection of sonnets , songs , and ele- gies ; and four tragedies , Darius , Croesus , The Alexandrian Tragedy , and Julius Cæsar . These are in rhyme , and ...
... critics . He was the author of a poem called Parænesis ; Aurora , which was a collection of sonnets , songs , and ele- gies ; and four tragedies , Darius , Croesus , The Alexandrian Tragedy , and Julius Cæsar . These are in rhyme , and ...
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Page 180 - The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a study to every person who wishes to obtain a wide command over the English language. The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. There is not an expression, if we except a few technical terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. We have observed several pages which do not contain a single word of more than two syllables. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say.
Page 130 - 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 choir 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 207 - An apology for the true Christian divinity as the same is held forth and preached by the people called in scorn Quakers...
Page 271 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Page 145 - His spirits do not seem to have been high, but they were singularly equable. His temper was serious, perhaps stern ; but it was a temper which no sufferings could render sullen or fretful. Such as it was when, on the eve of great events, he returned from his travels, in the prime of health and manly beauty, loaded with literary distinctions, and glowing with patriotic hopes, such it continued to be when, after having experienced every calamity...
Page 322 - Look then abroad through Nature, to the range Of planets, suns, and adamantine spheres, Wheeling unshaken through the void immense ; And speak, O man ! does this capacious scene With half that kindling majesty dilate Thy strong conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of...
Page 146 - ... little read. As compositions, they deserve the attention of every man who wishes to become acquainted with the full power of the English language. They abound with passages compared with which the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance. They are a perfect field of cloth of gold. The style is stiff, with gorgeous embroidery.
Page 272 - I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.
Page 180 - There is no book in our literature, on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old, unpolluted English language ; no book which shows so well, how rich that language is, in its own proper wealth, and how little it has been improved by all that it has borrowed.
Page 180 - Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation, for subtle disquisition, for every purpose of the poet, the orator, and the divine, this homely dialect, the dialect of plain working men, was perfectly sufficient.