A First Book in English LiteratureH. Holt, 1910 - 497 lappuses |
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152. lappuse - and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was indeed honest, and of an open and free nature; had an .excellent phantasy, brave notions, an'd gentle expressions, wherein^ he flowed with that facility that sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped."
319. lappuse - A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me!
309. lappuse - A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might, Quid faith he mauna fa' that! For a' that, and a' that, Their dignities, and a' that, The pith o' sense, and pride o' worth, Are higher rank than a
316. lappuse - me like a passion: the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
254. lappuse - He has restored virtue to its dignity, and taught innocence not to be ashamed. This is an elevation of literary character, above all Greek, above all Roman fame. . . . 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.
327. lappuse - His descriptions of Nature are often condensed and vivid, like those of Dante, showing the power to enter into the spirit of a scene and reproduce it with a few quick strokes: "The sun's rim dips; the stars rush out; At one stride comes the dark.
268. lappuse - From what you tell me of your country," says the gigantic King of Brobdingnag to Gulliver, " I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the face of the earth.
162. lappuse - And in the same spirit, Portia declares: "That in the course of justice none of us Should see salvation; we do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.
219. lappuse - We conquer'd France, but felt our captive's charms; Her arts victorious triumphed o'er our arms; Britain, to soft refinements less a foe, Wit grew polite, and numbers learn'd to flow. Waller was smooth; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full-resounding line, The long majestic march, and energy divine." — POPE. THE restoration of the monarchy
316. lappuse - all in all." "The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.