Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England: With Specimens of the Principal WritersCharles Knight, 1845 |
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... never shall aslake , SORROW I am ; in endless torments pained Among the Furies in the infernal lake ; Where Pluto , God of Hell , so grisly blake , Doth hold his throne , and Lethe's deadly taste Doth reave remembrance of each thing ...
... never shall aslake , SORROW I am ; in endless torments pained Among the Furies in the infernal lake ; Where Pluto , God of Hell , so grisly blake , Doth hold his throne , and Lethe's deadly taste Doth reave remembrance of each thing ...
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... never to enjoy again The gladsome light , but , in the ground ylain , In depth of darkness waste and wear to nought , As he had ne'er into the world been brought . But who had seen him sobbing how he stood Unto himself , and how he ...
... never to enjoy again The gladsome light , but , in the ground ylain , In depth of darkness waste and wear to nought , As he had ne'er into the world been brought . But who had seen him sobbing how he stood Unto himself , and how he ...
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... Gammer Gurton's Needle was printed , or at least written , some years before the date of the earliest edition of it now extant . Yet came my foote never within those doore cheekes , 26 LITERATURE AND LEARNING IN ENGLAND .
... Gammer Gurton's Needle was printed , or at least written , some years before the date of the earliest edition of it now extant . Yet came my foote never within those doore cheekes , 26 LITERATURE AND LEARNING IN ENGLAND .
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With Specimens of the Principal Writers George Lillie Craik. Yet came my foote never within those doore cheekes , To seek flesh or fysh , garlyke , onyons , or leekes , That ever I saw a sorte in such a plyght , As here within this house ...
With Specimens of the Principal Writers George Lillie Craik. Yet came my foote never within those doore cheekes , To seek flesh or fysh , garlyke , onyons , or leekes , That ever I saw a sorte in such a plyght , As here within this house ...
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... never expressly contradicted , and it is not improbable that it may have a general foundation of truth . It must be con- fessed , however , that no change of style gives any indi- ing the first publication of Tom Tiler and his Wife to ...
... never expressly contradicted , and it is not improbable that it may have a general foundation of truth . It must be con- fessed , however , that no change of style gives any indi- ing the first publication of Tom Tiler and his Wife to ...
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Страница 118 - Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime. We would sit down and think which way To walk, and pass our long love's day; Thou by the Indian Ganges' side Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide Of Humber would complain. I would Love you ten years before the Flood; And you should, if you please, refuse Till the conversion of the Jews.
Страница 28 - Our hearts with loyal flames ; When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths and draughts go free, Fishes that tipple in the deep Know no such liberty.
Страница 101 - All in a moment through the gloom were seen Ten thousand banners rise into the air With orient colours waving...
Страница 105 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite...
Страница 118 - But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near, And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.
Страница 56 - With a refined traveller of Spain; A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain : One, whom the music of his own vain tongue Doth ravish, like enchanting harmony...
Страница 114 - Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Страница 77 - Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances. Shakespeare...
Страница 49 - Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone : regard his hellish fall, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise Only to wonder at unlawful things, Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits To practise more than heavenly power permits.
Страница 120 - Gather the flowers, but spare the buds; Lest Flora, angry at thy crime, To kill her infants in their prime, Do quickly make th' example yours; And, ere we see, Nip in the blossom all our hopes and thee.