English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century: Ford Lectures, 1903Duckworth and Company, 1904 - 224 pages |
Contents
| 114 | |
| 116 | |
| 120 | |
| 122 | |
| 124 | |
| 138 | |
| 168 | |
| 178 | |
| 49 | |
| 60 | |
| 66 | |
| 74 | |
| 76 | |
| 80 | |
| 81 | |
| 87 | |
| 88 | |
| 97 | |
| 100 | |
| 102 | |
| 110 | |
| 180 | |
| 181 | |
| 182 | |
| 184 | |
| 188 | |
| 191 | |
| 192 | |
| 194 | |
| 200 | |
| 202 | |
| 208 | |
| 211 | |
| 220 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
accepted Addison admirable appeal to Nature appeared appreciate aristocratic audience authority became become beginning beliefs Bolingbroke century characteristic charm Chesterfield circle club coffee-houses comedy common sense congenial Congreve conspicuous contemporaries contempt corruption Crabbe creed critic decay Defoe deism deist denounced doctrine Dryden embodied English epic poem essay express fact famous feeling French Revolution garden genius give Grub Street historian Homer Horace Walpole human Iliad implies intellectual interest Johnson LESLIE STEPHEN literary class literature meant Meanwhile ment merits Molière moral movement nation Nature Ossian patronage period philosophical poet poetical poetry political Pope Pope's principles problem Puritan reason recognised religious remarkable repre represented revolution Richardson ridicule Rousseau satire scepticism seems sentiment Shakespeare social society speak stage stratum suggest Swift taste theory thought tion Tom Jones tradition true utterance Voltaire Walpole Whig Whiggism whole writer
Popular passages
Page 124 - There my retreat the best companions grace, Chiefs out of war, and statesmen out of place: There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul: And he, whose lightning pierced the' Iberian lines, Now forms my quincunx, and now ranks my vines; Or tames the genius of the stubborn plain, Almost as quickly as he conquer'd Spain.
Page 82 - These pastorals became popular, and were read with delight as just representations of rural manners and occupations by those who had no interest in the rivalry of the poets, nor knowledge of the critical dispute.
Page 115 - FATHER of all ! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord ! Thou great First Cause, least understood, Who all my sense confined To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind ; Yet...
Page 56 - Jonson derived from particular persons, they made it not their business to describe; they represented all the passions very lively, but above all, love. I am apt to believe the English language in...
Page 218 - On the other side, it means that the literature must be produced by the class which embodies the really vital and powerful currents of thought which are moulding society. The great author must have a people behind him; utter both what he really thinks and feels and what is thought and felt most profoundly by his contemporaries.
Page 88 - Fly, Grecians, fly, your sails and oars employ, And dream no more of heaven-defended Troy.' His deep design unknown, the hosts approve Atrides
Page 114 - For forms of government let fools contest ; Whate'er is best administered is best : For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight ; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Page 51 - In happy climes, the seat of innocence, Where nature guides and virtue rules, Where men shall not impose for truth and sense, The pedantry of courts and schools...
Page 87 - That means that he received a kind of commission from the upper class to execute the translation.
Page 80 - Those rules of old discovered, not devised. Are nature still, but nature methodised ; Nature, like liberty, is but restrained By the same laws which first herself ordained. Hear how learned Greece her useful rules indites, When to repress, and when indulge our flights : High on Parnassus...