The Cambridge History of English Literature: From Steele and Addison to Pope and SwiftSir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller The University Press, 1912 |
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... admiration for Defoe's realistic power . That power is seen to a less extent in The Impartial History of Peter Alexowitz the Present Czar of Muscovy and in The History and Remarkable Life of the truly Honourable Colonel Jacque ; but ...
... admiration for Defoe's realistic power . That power is seen to a less extent in The Impartial History of Peter Alexowitz the Present Czar of Muscovy and in The History and Remarkable Life of the truly Honourable Colonel Jacque ; but ...
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... admiration virtue , especially in his wellknown portrait of Lady Elizabeth Hastings , whose passion is so high- souled and graceful that ' to love her is a liberal education . ' Such portraits would have had but little effect if Steele ...
... admiration virtue , especially in his wellknown portrait of Lady Elizabeth Hastings , whose passion is so high- souled and graceful that ' to love her is a liberal education . ' Such portraits would have had but little effect if Steele ...
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... admirable story of the maidservant ( really ' an arch baggage ' ) sent to consult the astrologer on the health of Cupid , her mistress's lap- dog ; pedants are defined as ' all men of deep learning without common - sense , ' and their ...
... admirable story of the maidservant ( really ' an arch baggage ' ) sent to consult the astrologer on the health of Cupid , her mistress's lap- dog ; pedants are defined as ' all men of deep learning without common - sense , ' and their ...
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... admirably characteristic letters on the education of a girl , one from Célimène , who despairs of breaking in her charge to all the artificialities of polite society and the other from a self - styled ' rough man ' who fears that ' the ...
... admirably characteristic letters on the education of a girl , one from Célimène , who despairs of breaking in her charge to all the artificialities of polite society and the other from a self - styled ' rough man ' who fears that ' the ...
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... admiration quite apart from its intrinsic merits . Milton's tumultuous and over - burdened similes seemed perfect , in contrast with the artifices of the little wits1 . Eve's purity and modesty exercised an exaggerated charm in view of ...
... admiration quite apart from its intrinsic merits . Milton's tumultuous and over - burdened similes seemed perfect , in contrast with the artifices of the little wits1 . Eve's purity and modesty exercised an exaggerated charm in view of ...
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Addison admirable afterwards Alexander Pope appeared Arbuthnot Bentley bishop Boehme Bolingbroke Burnet called Cambridge chap character Charles Christian church coffeehouses controversy criticism death Defoe Defoe's deists Divine Dryden Dublin Dunciad earl edition eighteenth century England English Epistle Essay French friends George Harley History Horace Hudibras humour Iliad interest Ireland Jacobite John John Bull Jonathan Swift Journal King Lady later Latin Law's learning letters literary literature living London Lord Matthew Prior Memoirs mind Miscellany modern moral mystical nature Ned Ward never original Oxford pamphlets papers philosophical pindarics poem poet poetry political Pope Pope's printed Prior prose published queen readers reason reign religion Remarks Rptd Samuel Clarke satire says Scotland seems spirit Steele style Swift Tatler things Thomas thought Tom Brown tory tracts translation treatise verse volume Walpole whig William William Law writings written wrote
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Página 285 - Some truths there are so near and obvious to the mind that a man need only open his eyes to see them. Such I take this important one to be, viz. that all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth, in a word all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any subsistence without a mind...
Página 85 - But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.
Página 302 - ... the nearer we search into human nature, the more we shall be convinced, that the moral virtues are the political offspring which flattery begot upon pride.
Página 172 - Can I forget the dismal night, that gave My soul's best part for ever to the grave ? How silent did his old companions tread, By midnight lamps, the mansions of the dead, Through breathing statues, then unheeded things, Through rows of warriors, and through walks of kings...
Página 123 - He gave the little wealth he had, To build a house for fools and mad: And showed by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much: That kingdom he hath left his debtor, I wish it soon may have a better.
Página 102 - ... instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax ; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
Página 103 - I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.
Página 313 - Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it a dull book (as such books generally are), and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch for me ; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry'.
Página 120 - STELLA this day is thirty-four, (We sha'n't dispute a year or more :) However, Stella, be not troubled, Although thy size and years are doubled Since first I saw thee at sixteen, The brightest virgin on the green ; So little is thy form declined ; Made up so largely in thy mind.