The Cambridge History of English Literature: The nineteenth century. IIISir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller The University Press, 1916 |
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The Cambridge History of English Literature, Volume 14 Sir Adolphus William Ward,Alfred Rayney Waller Affichage du livre entier - 1917 |
The Cambridge History of English Literature, Volume 14 Sir Adolphus William Ward,Alfred Rayney Waller Affichage du livre entier - 1917 |
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2nd edn afterwards Anglo-Indian Australian Australian poetry Ballads bibliography biographical British Brougham Calcutta Cambridge Canada chap Charles criticism Dublin E. L. XIV earl early Edinburgh Edinburgh Review edited Edward eighteenth century Essays France French George George Cruikshank Henry historian History of England History of India History of Scotland illustrated India influence instruction Ireland Irish James John Joseph Lancaster Journal knowledge language later edns Lectures Letters literary London Lord lyric Magazine mathematics Melbourne Memoirs Middle English modern moral narrative nature newspapers nineteenth century original Orpington Oxford Pamphleteer paper period Philosophy Philosophy of Perception poems poet Poetical poetry political popular principles prose published reform Review Richard Robert Rptd Sam Slick schools Scottish Sketches society South African poetry speech story Sydney theory Thomas thought translated Travels verse vols volume voyage weekly William words writers written wrote
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Page 21 - That principle is that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number is self-protection.
Page 436 - Waller was smooth ; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full-resounding line, The long majestic march, and energy divine.
Page 30 - Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion ; during which the matter passes from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity ; and during •which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation.
Page 461 - Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return back to the primitive purity, and shortness, when men deliver'd so many things, almost in an equal number of words. They have exacted from all their members, a close, naked, natural way of speaking; positive expressions, clear senses; a native easiness: bringing all things as near the Mathematical plainness, as they can: and preferring the language of Artizans, Countrymen, and Merchants, before that, of Wits,...
Page 542 - AN ACADEMY FOR GROWN HORSEMEN : Containing the completes! Instructions for Walking, Trotting, Cantering, Galloping, Stumbling, and Tumbling. Illustrated with 27 Coloured Plates, and adorned with a Portrait of the Author. By Geoffrey Gambado, Esq.
Page 499 - Sharon Turner's History of the AngloSaxons, from the Earliest Period to the Norman Conquest.
Page 298 - I can remember the very spot in the road, whilst in my carriage, when to my joy the solution occurred to me; and this was long after I had come to Down.
Page 543 - LIFE IN LONDON : or, the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq., and his Elegant Friend, Corinthian Tom.
Page 418 - I say, from the nature of the case, if literature is to be made a study of human nature, you cannot have a Christian literature. It is a contradiction in terms to attempt a sinless literature of sinful man.
Page 380 - No more by thee my steps shall be, For ever and for ever. Flow, softly flow, by lawn and lea, A rivulet then a river: No where by thee my steps shall be, For ever and for ever. But here will sigh thine alder tree, And here thine aspen shiver; And here by thee will hum the bee, For ever and for ever.