Macaulay's Essays on Oliver Goldsmith, Frederic the Great and Madame D'ArblayScott, Foresman, 1913 - 262페이지 |
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... all the powers which afterwards pro- duced Evelina and Cecilia , the quickness in catching every odd peculiarity of character and manner , the 35 skill in grouping , the humour , often richly comic 178 MACAULAY'S ESSAYS .
... all the powers which afterwards pro- duced Evelina and Cecilia , the quickness in catching every odd peculiarity of character and manner , the 35 skill in grouping , the humour , often richly comic 178 MACAULAY'S ESSAYS .
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... Cecilia in manuscript pronounced it the best novel of the age . Mrs. Thrale laughed and wept over it . Crisp was even vehement in applause , and offered to 30 insure the rapid and complete success of the book for half a crown . What ...
... Cecilia in manuscript pronounced it the best novel of the age . Mrs. Thrale laughed and wept over it . Crisp was even vehement in applause , and offered to 30 insure the rapid and complete success of the book for half a crown . What ...
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... Cecilia was published in the summer of 1782. The curiosity of the town was intense . We have been in- formed by persons who remember those days that no romance of Sir Walter Scott was more impatiently awaited , or more eagerly snatched ...
... Cecilia was published in the summer of 1782. The curiosity of the town was intense . We have been in- formed by persons who remember those days that no romance of Sir Walter Scott was more impatiently awaited , or more eagerly snatched ...
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... Cecilia . Frances detested cards , and indeed knew nothing about them ; but she soon found that the least 5 miserable way of passing an evening with Madame Schwellenberg was at the card - table and consented , with patient sadness , to ...
... Cecilia . Frances detested cards , and indeed knew nothing about them ; but she soon found that the least 5 miserable way of passing an evening with Madame Schwellenberg was at the card - table and consented , with patient sadness , to ...
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... Cecilia from college to college ! What neat little banquets would she have found set out in their monastic cells ! With what eagerness would pictures , medals , and illuminated missals have been brought forth from the most mys - 15 ...
... Cecilia from college to college ! What neat little banquets would she have found set out in their monastic cells ! With what eagerness would pictures , medals , and illuminated missals have been brought forth from the most mys - 15 ...
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238 페이지 - Standing on earth, not rapt above the pole, More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchanged To hoarse or mute, though fallen on evil days, On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues...
221 페이지 - It may, by metaphor, apply itself Unto the general disposition: As when some one peculiar quality Doth so possess a man, that it doth draw All his affects, his spirits, and his powers, In their confluctions, all to run one way, This may be truly said to be a humour.
83 페이지 - On the head of Frederic is all the blood which was shed in a war which raged during many years and in every quarter of the globe, the blood of the column of Fontenoy, the blood of the mountaineers who were slaughtered at Culloden. The evils produced by his wickedness were felt in lands where the name of Prussia was unknown; and, in order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men. fought on the coast of Coromandel , and red men scalped each other by the Great Lakes of...
161 페이지 - All those whom we have been accustomed to revere as intellectual patriarchs seemed children when compared with her; for Burke had sat up all night to read her writings, and Johnson had pronounced her superior to Fielding, when Rogers was still a schoolboy, and Southey still in petticoats. Her Diary is written in her earliest and best manner; in true woman's English, clear, natural, and lively. It ought to be consulted by every person who wishes to be well acquainted with the history of our literature...
235 페이지 - OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH— A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, And touched nothing that he did not adorn...
227 페이지 - ... adhere. I am but too certain they will now listen to no other. I dread, therefore, to make a trial where I despair of success. I know not how to risk a prayer with those who may silence me by a command.
228 페이지 - Mrs. Selwyn is very kind and attentive to me. She is extremely clever. Her understanding, indeed, may be called masculine; but unfortunately her manners deserve the same epithet; for, in studying to acquire the knowledge of the other sex, she has lost all the softness of her own.
52 페이지 - It is made up of incongruous parts. The village in its happy days is a true English village. The village in its decay is an Irish village. The felicity and the misery which Goldsmith has brought close together belong to two different countries, and to two different stages in the progress of society. He 'had assuredly never seen in his native island such a rural paradise, such a seat of plenty, content, and tranquillity, as his Auburn.
59 페이지 - You are worse," said one of his medical attendants, " than you should be from the degree of fever which you have. Is your mind at ease ? " " No, it is not,'' were the last recorded words of Oliver Goldsmith.
190 페이지 - Only one must not say so. But what think you ? What? Is- there not sad stuff? What? What?