A Literary Laboratory Research Manual for the Study of Constructive British Authors in Fourth Year High School EnglishFratcher Printing Company, 1901 - 58 Seiten |
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Addison Alexander Pope appellations beautiful brief tributes Briefly sketch Burns character Chaucer choice quotations Comedy Commit choice passages compared Contemporaneous notes Contrast Dowden's dramas Dramatist English Literature essay Give GOLDEN EPOCH Goldsmith Hamlet Henry incidents influence Johnson Julius Caesar kind of verse King Lear Lake School Lear lines literary criticism Locksley Hall Love's Labor's Lost Manual of English Maud G Mediated Memorize Merchant of Venice Milton motive NOTE-BOOK notes by countries original Othello Outline of Topics Paradise Lost Paragraph VIII parentage Passionate Pilgrim Phillips poems points Pope popular PRELUDE prose pupil Quote freely rank Read reader recital in class reputable writers Richard III Samson Agonistes Samuel Johnson Scott's sentiment Shakspere Shaw Sir Roger song writer Sonnet Spectator speech spirit story Study style subjects Suggestive Outline Taine Tennyson theme thought Title Topics and Questions Tragedy Ward's English Poets Welsh Wimble
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Seite 5 - twill pass for wit; Care not for feeling; pass your proper jest, And stand a critic, hated yet caress'd. And shall we own such judgment? No! as soon Seek roses in December, ice in June, Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff, Believe a woman or an epitaph, Or any other thing that's false, before You trust in critics, who themselves are sore; Or yield one single thought to be misled By Jeffrey's heart or Lambe's Boeotian head.
Seite 7 - ... incapable person; every device by which the empty head tries to come to the assistance of the empty purse, that is to say, about nine-tenths of all existing books, should be mercilessly scourged. Literary journals would then perform their duty, which is to keep down the craving for writing and put a check upon the deception of the public, instead of furthering these evils by a miserable toleration, which plays into the hands of author and publisher, and robs the reader of his time and his money....
Seite 5 - Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all you know on earth and all you need to know!
Seite 2 - ... the terms which all men learn somehow to use, — the terms of language. Some of these records, and most, are of so little moment that they are soon neglected and forgotten ; others, like the fancied story of the swallow, linger through the ages. It is to these that we give the name of literature. Literature is the lasting expression in words of the meaning of life.
Seite 5 - I am Sir Oracle ; When I ope my mouth let no dog bark." But a close and critical examination of these always discovers fissures in the character fatally blemishing the perfection which they pretend to, and preserve the appearance of, by keeping at a distance from their peers. General Taylor is not of this class of great men. Any one may approach him as...
Seite 24 - Wolsey's fall that broken-hearted man, who had not served his God as well as he had served his King, left Yorkplace in his barge for Esher.
Seite 7 - Literary journals should be a dam against the unconscionable scribbling of the age, and the ever-increasing deluge of bad and useless books. Their judgments should be uncorrupted, just and rigorous ; and every piece of bad work done by an incapable person ; every device by which the empty head tries to come to the assistance of the empty purse, that is to say, about nine-tenths of all existing books, should be mercilessly scourged. Literary journals would then perform their duty, which is to keep...
Seite 38 - Which one of Sir Roger's club associates might we expect to be least affected by the news of his death? Is this expectation realized? If not, why not?
Seite 7 - If literary journals were only properly edited, they would be a check to the miserable and conscienceless scribbling of the age, and the ever increasing deluge of bad and useless books.
Seite 24 - XVII.—Who believes that we are made of such stuff as dreams are made of, and that life ends in a sleep?