A Survey of English Literature, 1730-1780, Volumen1E. Arnold & Company, 1928 - 367 páginas Volume 1: Prospective - Memoirs and letters - Memoirs and letters: Women - The essay: Goldsmith - Johnson and Boswell - The novel: Samuel Richardson - Fielding and Smollett - Sterne: other fiction - Comedy - Tragedy - Followers of Pope, Milton and Spenser; Volume 2: Poetry - The Wartons, Collins and Gray - Poetry after 1760 - Critics - Philosophy and letters - Divinity and letters - Some political writers - History and letters. |
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Términos y frases comunes
Addison admired afterwards amusing Batheaston Boswell Burke called Carlyle Caroline Carter Castle of Otranto Catherine Talbot character Chesterfield Clarissa comedy critic death describes Dryden Duchess of Northumberland Earl English Epictetus essay father fiction Fielding Fielding's French Garrick genius George Goldsmith happy hear heart Hervey Horace Walpole humour Johnson Joseph Warton Journal kind king Lady Mary language letters literary literature lived Lord Lord Hervey manner married memoirs Milton mind Miss Montagu moral nature never novel once passion play poem poetry poets political Pope Pope's praises prose rhymes Richard Owen Cambridge Richardson scene sense sentiment Shakespeare Sir Charles Smollett speaks spirit Stephen Duck story style talk taste tells temper things Thomas Warton Thomson thought Tom Jones tragedy true verse Voltaire Walpole's William women words write written wrote young youth
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Página 225 - Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine;— they are the life, the soul of reading;— take them out of this book for instance,— you might as well take the book along with them...
Página 376 - Tis but a night, a long and moonless night ; We make the grave our bed, and then are gone.
Página 24 - Pray send me no more such laurels, which I desire no more than their leaves when decked with a scrap of tinsel and stuck on twelfthcakes that lie on the shop-boards of pastry-cooks at Christmas. I shall be quite content with a sprig of rosemary thrown after me, when the parson of the parish commits my dust to dust.
Página 145 - ... able to hold himself erect till they were laced, and he then put on a flannel waistcoat. One side was contracted. His legs were so slender that he enlarged their bulk with three pair of stockings, which were drawn on and off by the maid ; for he was not able to dress or undress himself, and neither went to bed nor rose without help. His weakness made it very difficult for him to be clean.
Página 358 - Let down the flood, and half dissolv'd by day. Rustles no more ; but to the sedgy bank Fast grows, or gathers round the pointed stone, A crystal pavement, by the breath of Heaven Cemented firm ; till, seiz'd from shore to shore, The whole imprison'd river growls below.
Página 371 - And charm through distant ages : wrapt in shade, Prisoner of darkness ! to the silent hours, How often I repeat their rage divine, To lull my griefs, and steal my heart from woe ! I roll their raptures, but not catch their fire. Dark, though not blind, like thee, Mseouides! Or, Milton ! thee ; ah, could I reach your strain ! Or his, who made Maeonides our own.
Página 132 - He that condemns himself to compose on a stated day, will often bring to his task an attention dissipated, a memory embarrassed, an imagination overwhelmed, a mind distracted with anxieties, a body languishing with disease : he will labour on a barren topic, till it is too late to change it; or, in the ardour of invention, diffuse his thoughts into wild exuberance, which the pressing hour of publication cannot suffer judgment to examine or reduce.
Página 344 - Which can the meanest of my thoughts control, Or shake one settled purpose of my soul : Free and at large, might their wild curses roam, If all, if all, alas ! were well at home.
Página 26 - They have put in the papers a good story made on White's: a man dropped down dead at the door, was carried in; the club immediately made bets whether he was dead or not, and when they were going to bleed him, the wagerers for his death interposed, and said it would affect the fairness of the bet.
Página 127 - Prepare for death, if here at night you roam. And sign your will before you sup from home.