Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from the Earliest to the Present Time, Connected by a Critical and Biographical History, Том 1Robert Chambers Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1849 |
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... English intellect , from Anglo - Saxon to the present times , in the various depart- ments headed by Chaucer , Shakspeare , Milton - by More , Bacon , Locke - by Hooker , Taylor , Barrow- by Addison , Johnson , Goldsmith - by Hume ...
... English intellect , from Anglo - Saxon to the present times , in the various depart- ments headed by Chaucer , Shakspeare , Milton - by More , Bacon , Locke - by Hooker , Taylor , Barrow- by Addison , Johnson , Goldsmith - by Hume ...
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... English in 1544 , 305 The Spirit's Epilogue in Comus , L'Allegro , 334 335 JOHN SPOTISWOOD , 306 Il Penseroso , 336 Destruction of Religious Edifices in 1559 , · 306 From Lycidas , 337 James VI . and a Refractory Preacher , 307 Satan's ...
... English in 1544 , 305 The Spirit's Epilogue in Comus , L'Allegro , 334 335 JOHN SPOTISWOOD , 306 Il Penseroso , 336 Destruction of Religious Edifices in 1559 , · 306 From Lycidas , 337 James VI . and a Refractory Preacher , 307 Satan's ...
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A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from the Earliest to the Present Time, Connected by a Critical and Biographical History Robert Chambers. Page 419 Page 8858 88866 6 CYCLOPÆDIA OF ENGLISH LITERATURE . First. Page ...
A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from the Earliest to the Present Time, Connected by a Critical and Biographical History Robert Chambers. Page 419 Page 8858 88866 6 CYCLOPÆDIA OF ENGLISH LITERATURE . First. Page ...
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... English history , written , it is believed , by a series of authors , commencing soon after the time of Alfred , and continued till the reign of Henry II . Altogether , considering the general state of Western Europe in the middle ages ...
... English history , written , it is believed , by a series of authors , commencing soon after the time of Alfred , and continued till the reign of Henry II . Altogether , considering the general state of Western Europe in the middle ages ...
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... English literature . These writers composed most frequently in rhymed couplets , each line containing eight syllables . † COMMENCEMENT OF THE PRESENT FORM OF ENGLISH . Of the century following the Conquest , the only other compositions ...
... English literature . These writers composed most frequently in rhymed couplets , each line containing eight syllables . † COMMENCEMENT OF THE PRESENT FORM OF ENGLISH . Of the century following the Conquest , the only other compositions ...
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Страница 185 - Here, under leave of Brutus, and the rest, (For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men;) Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral. He was my friend, faithful and just to me: But Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man.
Страница 132 - Sweet Day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die.
Страница 329 - MAY MORNING. Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire ; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long.
Страница 107 - Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it : for I love you so. That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, If thinking on me then should make you woe.
Страница 395 - ... teeth: and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Страница 331 - Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful jollity, Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek ; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides...
Страница 333 - Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That owned the virtuous ring and glass, And of the wondrous horse of brass, On which the Tartar king did ride...
Страница 243 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business.
Страница 187 - To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling...
Страница 334 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new world ; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...