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 .. . y birthFrom loins enthroned and rulers of the earth;But higher far my proud pretensions rise—The son of parents passed into the now, farewell! Time unrevoked has runHis wonted course; yet what I wished is contemplations help, not sought in vain,I seem to have lived my childhood oer again;To have renewed the joys that once were the sin of violatin
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 .. . y birthFrom loins enthroned and rulers of the earth;But higher far my proud pretensions rise—The son of parents passed into the now, farewell! Time unrevoked has runHis wonted course; yet what I wished is contemplations help, not sought in vain,I seem to have lived my childhood oer again;To have renewed the joys that once were the sin of violating thine ;And, while the wings of fancy still are free,And 1 can view this mimic show of has but half succeeded in his theft—Thyself removed, thy power to soothe me left. Literary Analysis.—103. compass lost. What fact in Cowpers life addsimmense force to this expression ? which explain. 106. and he. Supply the ellipsis. 109. loins. What is the figure of speech ? (See Def. 28.)—Cowpers mothertraced her ancestry through four different lines to Henry III. of England. 119. mimic show. Explain. 121. Thyself removed. .. left. What is the figure of (See Def, 18.) XVI. EDWARD GIBBON. 1737-1794-. GIBBONS OWN ACCOUNT OF HIS GREAT HISTORY. I. It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat mus-ing amidst the ruins of the capitol, wliile the barefooted friarswere singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of From Gibbons Memoir of My Life and 2s8 GIBBON. writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my my original plan was circumscribed to the decay of the city,rather than of the empire; and though my reading and reflec-tions began to point towards that object, some years elapsed,and several avocations mtervened, before I was seriously en-gaged in the execution of that laborious task. 2. No sooner was I settled in my house and library than I un-dertook the composition of the first volume of my History. Atthe ou
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