A Popular Manual of English Literature: Containing Outlines of the Literature of France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United States of America, Том 1Harper & brothers, 1885 - 1150 страници |
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... Molière , Addison , Le Sage , Fielding , Richardson , Scott , the romancers of the elder or later schools - one man has far more than sur- passed them all . Others may have been as sublime , others may have been more pathetic , others ...
... Molière , Addison , Le Sage , Fielding , Richardson , Scott , the romancers of the elder or later schools - one man has far more than sur- passed them all . Others may have been as sublime , others may have been more pathetic , others ...
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... Molière , Racine , Boileau , and La Fon- taine had not yet made their appearance on the lit- erary field . Administration Mazarin , the Italian adviser of Anne of Austria . II . Germany . - House of Austria : FERDINAND III . , -1658 ...
... Molière , Racine , Boileau , and La Fon- taine had not yet made their appearance on the lit- erary field . Administration Mazarin , the Italian adviser of Anne of Austria . II . Germany . - House of Austria : FERDINAND III . , -1658 ...
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... Molière . - Jean Baptiste Poquelin ( 1622-1673 ) , called by Voltaire the father of French Comedy , had composed several farces and two comedies before 1659 , but his suc- cessful career as a dramatist began in that year , when the ...
... Molière . - Jean Baptiste Poquelin ( 1622-1673 ) , called by Voltaire the father of French Comedy , had composed several farces and two comedies before 1659 , but his suc- cessful career as a dramatist began in that year , when the ...
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... Molière , Ra- cine , Boileau , and La Fon- taine held weekly dinners Vieux Colom- in the Rue du bier . The chief archi- tect of the age was Mansard ( 1645-1708 ) , who built , be- sides Versailles , the palaces of Marly , and the Great ...
... Molière , Ra- cine , Boileau , and La Fon- taine held weekly dinners Vieux Colom- in the Rue du bier . The chief archi- tect of the age was Mansard ( 1645-1708 ) , who built , be- sides Versailles , the palaces of Marly , and the Great ...
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... Molière , a trifler so agreeable as La Fontaine , a rhetorician so skilful as Bossuet . The literary glory of Italy and of Spain had set ; that of Germany had not yet dawned . The genius , there- fore , of the eminent men who adorned ...
... Molière , a trifler so agreeable as La Fontaine , a rhetorician so skilful as Bossuet . The literary glory of Italy and of Spain had set ; that of Germany had not yet dawned . The genius , there- fore , of the eminent men who adorned ...
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Страница 510 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Страница 191 - Sweet Swan of Avon ! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our James...
Страница 212 - It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown. His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway : It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself, And earthly power doth then show likest God's, When mercy seasons justice.
Страница 295 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Страница 191 - Muses : For if I thought my judgment were of years, I should commit thee surely with thy peers, And tell how far thou didst our Lyly outshine. Or sporting Kyd, or Marlowe's mighty line.
Страница 194 - 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...
Страница 132 - To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Страница 531 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Страница 237 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul, All the images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Страница 191 - Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give.