Amenities of Literature: Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature, Volume 2Harper, 1855 - Authors, English |
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... inventions . A curious instance of the monstrous anomalies of our orthography in the infancy of our literature , when a spelling - book was yet a precious thing which had no existence , appears in this letter of the Dutchess of Nor ...
... inventions . A curious instance of the monstrous anomalies of our orthography in the infancy of our literature , when a spelling - book was yet a precious thing which had no existence , appears in this letter of the Dutchess of Nor ...
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... invention of alphabets , to establish the correspondence of pronunciation with orthography , and at their vowelly conceits to melodise our orthoepy . All these , however , demonstrate that our language has never been written as it ought ...
... invention of alphabets , to establish the correspondence of pronunciation with orthography , and at their vowelly conceits to melodise our orthoepy . All these , however , demonstrate that our language has never been written as it ought ...
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... invention of our own , that odd - looking monster in philology , " a pronouncing dictionary , " which offends our eyes by this unhappy attempt to write down sounds . They whose eyes have run over Sheridan , Walker , and other ...
... invention of our own , that odd - looking monster in philology , " a pronouncing dictionary , " which offends our eyes by this unhappy attempt to write down sounds . They whose eyes have run over Sheridan , Walker , and other ...
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... invention and a barbarous ornament , and of a comparatively modern invention . The opinions of the learned are transmitted , till by length of time they are accepted as facts ; and in this state was Rhyme considered till our own days ...
... invention and a barbarous ornament , and of a comparatively modern invention . The opinions of the learned are transmitted , till by length of time they are accepted as facts ; and in this state was Rhyme considered till our own days ...
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... invention , ) fancied that Rhyme had passed over into Spain from Italy , though in the land of Re- * Warton's Second Dissertation on the Introduction of Learning into England . † Lenglet du Fresnoy - Preface to his edition of the Roman ...
... invention , ) fancied that Rhyme had passed over into Spain from Italy , though in the land of Re- * Warton's Second Dissertation on the Introduction of Learning into England . † Lenglet du Fresnoy - Preface to his edition of the Roman ...
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Page 195 - Yes, trust them not: for there is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart, wrapt in a player's hide, 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.
Page 36 - HARRY, whose tuneful and well-measured song First taught our English music how to span Words with just note and accent, not to scan With Midas' ears, committing short and long, Thy worth and skill exempts thee from the throng, With praise enough for Envy to look wan : To after age thou shalt be writ the man That with smooth air couldst humour best our tongue. Thou honour'st verse, and verse must lend her wing To honour thee, the priest of Phoebus...
Page 199 - But if the first heir of my invention prove deformed, I shall be sorry it had so noble a god-father, and never after ear so barren a land, for fear it yield me still so bad a harvest.
Page 206 - We have but collected them, and done an office to the dead, to procure his orphans guardians; without ambition either of self-profit or fame; only to keep the memory of so worthy a friend and fellow alive as was our Shakespeare, by humble offer of his plays to your most noble patronage.
Page 204 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
Page 117 - Zephyrus did softly play A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan's beams, which then did glister fair; When I, (whom sullen care, Through discontent of my long fruitless stay In princes...
Page 162 - ... very defectious in the circumstances, which grieveth me, because it might not remain as an exact model of all tragedies. For it is faulty both in place and time, the two necessary companions of all corporal actions.
Page 133 - To th' instruments divine respondence meet; The silver sounding instruments did meet With the base murmur of the water's fall: The water's fall with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call: The gentle warbling wind low answered to all.
Page 211 - I do not know that Englishman alive, With whom my soul is any jot at odds, More than the infant that is born to-night; I thank my God for my humility.
Page 12 - ... as well for the recreation of our loving subjects as for our solace and pleasure when we shall think good to see them, during our pleasure.