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... merits of his style , the Editor has chosen to rely upon his own reading and judgment , and has given his own words , rather than quotations from such writers as Hallam and Macaulay . The absence of the brilliant patchwork produced by ...
... merits of his style , the Editor has chosen to rely upon his own reading and judgment , and has given his own words , rather than quotations from such writers as Hallam and Macaulay . The absence of the brilliant patchwork produced by ...
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... merits , and to bear a strong resemblance in thought and style to Chaucer and Gower , whom , indeed , he professedly ... merit were to be judged by the quantity of matter produced , Lydgate would be the first of our English poets , for ...
... merits , and to bear a strong resemblance in thought and style to Chaucer and Gower , whom , indeed , he professedly ... merit were to be judged by the quantity of matter produced , Lydgate would be the first of our English poets , for ...
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... merit as literary works : they show the high degree of excel- lence which the language had already reached , and enable us to de- termine the character and extent of the changes which , since that period , now upwards of three centuries ...
... merit as literary works : they show the high degree of excel- lence which the language had already reached , and enable us to de- termine the character and extent of the changes which , since that period , now upwards of three centuries ...
Strona 9
... merit . Dunbar , a clergyman who flourished at the Court of James IV . , was a poet of a still higher order ; and his works , which embrace allegorical , moral , and humorous pieces , display poetical merit which may be compared with ...
... merit . Dunbar , a clergyman who flourished at the Court of James IV . , was a poet of a still higher order ; and his works , which embrace allegorical , moral , and humorous pieces , display poetical merit which may be compared with ...
Strona 10
... merit , full of humour and incident ; the characters are drawn firmly and with great skill ; the plot is happily contrived and ably developed ; and it is totally free from that grossness and indelicacy which occasionally disfigure the ...
... merit , full of humour and incident ; the characters are drawn firmly and with great skill ; the plot is happily contrived and ably developed ; and it is totally free from that grossness and indelicacy which occasionally disfigure the ...
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Strona 195 - Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from EXPERIENCE; in that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives itself.
Strona 80 - So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores.
Strona 177 - I SAID, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue : I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
Strona 79 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Strona 126 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds : but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant — descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the...
Strona 324 - We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust to which the order of Providence has called us. By adverting to the dignity of this high calling, our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire; and have made the most extensive, and the only honorable conquests; not by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness, of the human race.
Strona 240 - A MAN'S first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart ; his next, to escape the censures of the world. If the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected ; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applauses of the public.
Strona 110 - Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of Truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them.
Strona 71 - That which doth assign unto each thing the kind, that which doth moderate the force and power, that which doth appoint the form and measure, of working, the same we term a law.
Strona 463 - FOR there is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in Work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works : in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.