English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature, Volumen1Cassell, limited, 1887 |
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... tell , of English Literature regarded as expression of a nation's History throughout the sequence of its thought . It is intended to include notes of the literature of all offshoots of the English race . If life and health last , this ...
... tell , of English Literature regarded as expression of a nation's History throughout the sequence of its thought . It is intended to include notes of the literature of all offshoots of the English race . If life and health last , this ...
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... tell the History of English Literature as fully as I can , well knowing that the studies of one life are insufficient for the setting forth even of the little that one man can see . Each reader within the limit of his different range of ...
... tell the History of English Literature as fully as I can , well knowing that the studies of one life are insufficient for the setting forth even of the little that one man can see . Each reader within the limit of his different range of ...
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... telling , presented -- in the best and easiest , though nearly the first , Italian prose- among their hundred tales the choice tales of the day from the French fabliaux , from incidents of actual life , or from whatever source was open ...
... telling , presented -- in the best and easiest , though nearly the first , Italian prose- among their hundred tales the choice tales of the day from the French fabliaux , from incidents of actual life , or from whatever source was open ...
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... who must still be amused with songs and stories struck out for themselves , by telling the King Arthur romances and other metrical tales in plain prose , and by turning other pleasant adventures , without 24 ENGLISH Writers .
... who must still be amused with songs and stories struck out for themselves , by telling the King Arthur romances and other metrical tales in plain prose , and by turning other pleasant adventures , without 24 ENGLISH Writers .
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... tell how , when he could not find out by the secrecy of nature the cause of the ebb- ing and the flowing of the sea , he cried , with a loud voice , O Thing of Things , have mercy upon me ! " In twenty black - letter pages there are but ...
... tell how , when he could not find out by the secrecy of nature the cause of the ebb- ing and the flowing of the sea , he cried , with a loud voice , O Thing of Things , have mercy upon me ! " In twenty black - letter pages there are but ...
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Página 125 - And he said, BLESSED be the Lord God of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant.
Página 114 - Of indignation; and with shouts that drowned The crash it made in falling ! From the wreck A golden palace rose, or seemed to rise, The appointed seat of equitable law And mild paternal sway. The potent shock I felt; the transformation I perceived, As marvellously seized as in that moment When, from the blind mist issuing, I beheld Glory — beyond all glory ever seen, 720 Confusion infinite of heaven and earth, Dazzling the soul.
Página 83 - If one severe law were made and punctually executed, that whoever was found at a conventicle should be banished th'e nation and the preacher be hanged, we should soon see an end of the tale. They would all come to church, and one age would make us all one again.
Página 51 - Her voice was good, and the ditty fitted for it; it was that smooth song which was made by Kit Marlow, now at least fifty years ago; and the milkmaid's mother sung an answer to it, which was made by Sir Walter Raleigh, in his younger days.
Página 105 - As I am not at all disposed to be either so indulgent, or so correspondent, as they desire, I have but one bad way left to escape the honour they would inflict upon me ; and therefore am obliged to desire you would make Dodsley print it immediately (which may be done in less than a week's time) from your copy, but without my name...
Página 68 - Macbeth', which, though I saw it lately, yet appears a most excellent play in all respects, but especially in divertisement, though it be a deep tragedy; which is a strange perfection in a tragedy, it being most proper here, and suitable.
Página 68 - Dream, which I had never seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life.
Página 65 - I drink, I huff, I strut, look big and stare; And all this I can do, because I dare.
Página 230 - Or the grape's ecstatic juice. Flush'd with mirth and hope they burn: But none from Cattraeth's vale return, Save Aeron brave, and Conan strong (Bursting through the bloody throng), And I, the meanest of them...
Página 74 - I am often put to a stand, in considering whether what I write be the idiom of the tongue, or false grammar, and nonsense couched beneath that specious nameof Anglicism; and have no other way to clear my doubts, but by translating my English into Latin, and thereby trying what sense the words will bear in a more stable language.