A First Sketch of English LiteratureCassell & Company, 1883 - 914 páginas |
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... verses of which this is the sense : - " Now we ought to praise the Author of the Heavenly Kingdom , the power of the ... verse . He returned next day with the work so well done that his teachers became in turn his hearers . Hilda then ...
... verses of which this is the sense : - " Now we ought to praise the Author of the Heavenly Kingdom , the power of the ... verse . He returned next day with the work so well done that his teachers became in turn his hearers . Hilda then ...
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... verse , chiefly in praise of chastity , survive , but those English songs of his which were still on the lips of the people in King Alfred's day are lost to us . William of Malmesbury has re- corded , on King Alfred's authority , that ...
... verse , chiefly in praise of chastity , survive , but those English songs of his which were still on the lips of the people in King Alfred's day are lost to us . William of Malmesbury has re- corded , on King Alfred's authority , that ...
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... verse , a Life of Edward the Confessor , which he dedicated to his patroness when she was Edward's widow . This writer was an honest man and clever , with personal affection for Earl Godwin and his TO A.D. 1006. ] THE NORMAN CONQUEST ...
... verse , a Life of Edward the Confessor , which he dedicated to his patroness when she was Edward's widow . This writer was an honest man and clever , with personal affection for Earl Godwin and his TO A.D. 1006. ] THE NORMAN CONQUEST ...
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... verse ,. by adding the series of Saxon kings ; and this latter part of his work was all that survived when Wace's more popular version of the famous history into French verse for the use of the court , caused that of Gaimar to be ...
... verse ,. by adding the series of Saxon kings ; and this latter part of his work was all that survived when Wace's more popular version of the famous history into French verse for the use of the court , caused that of Gaimar to be ...
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... verse purporting to be poems of a certain Bishop Golias , a gluttonous dignitary , glorying in self- indulgence , his name probably derived from gula , the gullet . The verses were audacious , lively , and so true to the assumed ...
... verse purporting to be poems of a certain Bishop Golias , a gluttonous dignitary , glorying in self- indulgence , his name probably derived from gula , the gullet . The verses were audacious , lively , and so true to the assumed ...
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Página 485 - But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held ; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
Página 721 - Tis resolved, for Nature pleads that he Should only rule who most resembles me. Shadwell alone my perfect image bears, Mature in dulness from his tender years ; Shadwell alone of all my sons is he Who stands confirmed in full stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense.
Página 550 - Enlarged winds, that curl the flood, Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
Página 552 - Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven ; All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye.
Página 484 - I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is?
Página 560 - Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumour lies, But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes And perfect witness of all-judging Jove; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed.
Página 807 - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease...
Página 438 - I am as sorry as if the original fault had been my fault, because myself have seen his demeanour no less civil than he excellent in the quality he professes: besides, divers of worship have reported his uprightness of dealing which argues his honesty, and his facetious grace in writing, that approves his art.
Página 602 - CYRIACK, this three years' day these eyes, though clear, To outward view, of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot ; Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Página 519 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit, or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect, or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon, or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention, or a shop for profit and sale ; and not a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.