Studies in English literatureBeing typical selections of British and American authorship, from Shakespeare to the present time ..with definitions, notes, analyses, and glossary as an aid to systematic literary study .. . that love the twi-light, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their en-vious gabble would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms. 105. noise, set, company. 106. flocking birds: that is, those that hover about in companies—not birds, like the gabble, meaningless sounds pointed out that a rhythmical movement pervades this passage, the character
Studies in English literatureBeing typical selections of British and American authorship, from Shakespeare to the present time ..with definitions, notes, analyses, and glossary as an aid to systematic literary study .. . that love the twi-light, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their en-vious gabble would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms. 105. noise, set, company. 106. flocking birds: that is, those that hover about in companies—not birds, like the gabble, meaningless sounds pointed out that a rhythmical movement pervades this passage, the characterof which appears from the following division : Metkinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nationRousing herself like a strong man after sleep,And shaking her invincible locks; Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth,And kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam,Purging and unsealing her long-abused sightAt the fountain itself of heavenly radiance ;While the whole noise of timorous and flocking those also that love the twilight,Flutter about, amazed at what she means,And in their envious gabble would prognosticateA year of sects and schisms. IV. SAMUEL BUTLER. \u^. HALLAMS CRITIQUE ON BUTLERS Hiidibras was incomparably more popular than ParadiseLost: no poem in our language rose at once to greater reputa-tion. Nor can this be called ephemeral, like most politicalpoetry. For at least half a century after its publication, it was HALLAMS CRITIQUE ON BUTLERS HUDIBRAS. 73 generally read and perpetually quoted. The wit of Butler hasstill preserved many lines; but Hudibras now attracts compar-atively few readers. The eulogies of Johnson seem ratheradapted to what he remembered to have been the fame of But-ler than to the feelings of the surrounding generation; andsince his time new sources of anmsement have sprung up, andwriters of a more intelligible pleasantry have superseded thoseof the seventeenth century. 2. In the
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