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, Volumen1Robert Chambers Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1849 |
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... Faery Queen as the most precious jewel in their coronet . The poet was entered a sizer ( one of the humblest class of students ) of Pembroke College , Cambridge , in May 1569 , and continued to attend college for seven years , taking ...
... Faery Queen as the most precious jewel in their coronet . The poet was entered a sizer ( one of the humblest class of students ) of Pembroke College , Cambridge , in May 1569 , and continued to attend college for seven years , taking ...
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... Faery Queen , and received the visits of Raleigh , whom he fancifully styled the Shepherd of the Ocean ; ' and here he brought home his wife , the Elizabeth ' of his sonnets , welcom- ing her with that noble strain of pure and fervent ...
... Faery Queen , and received the visits of Raleigh , whom he fancifully styled the Shepherd of the Ocean ; ' and here he brought home his wife , the Elizabeth ' of his sonnets , welcom- ing her with that noble strain of pure and fervent ...
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... Faery Queen was enthusiastically received . It could scarcely , indeed , be otherwise , considering how well it was adapted to the court and times of the Virgin Queen , where gallantry and chivalry were so strangely mingled with the ...
... Faery Queen was enthusiastically received . It could scarcely , indeed , be otherwise , considering how well it was adapted to the court and times of the Virgin Queen , where gallantry and chivalry were so strangely mingled with the ...
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... Faery Queen without recalling its wondrous scenes of enchantment and beauty , and feeling ourselves lulled , as it ... queen of fairy lond , ) To win him worship , and her grace to have , Which of all earthly things he most did crave ...
... Faery Queen without recalling its wondrous scenes of enchantment and beauty , and feeling ourselves lulled , as it ... queen of fairy lond , ) To win him worship , and her grace to have , Which of all earthly things he most did crave ...
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... Faery Queen , we have , for the sake of perspicuity , modernised the spelling , without changing a word of the original . The following two highly poetical descriptions are given in the poet's own orthography : - [ The House of Sleep ...
... Faery Queen , we have , for the sake of perspicuity , modernised the spelling , without changing a word of the original . The following two highly poetical descriptions are given in the poet's own orthography : - [ The House of Sleep ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...