Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History Critical and Biographical of Authors in the English Tongue from the Earliest Times Till the Present Day, with Specimens of Their Writing, Volumen2W. & R. Chambers, 1902 |
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... charm of a sequent narrative and an effortless style which was as pleasant to read as a fairy - tale . After Hume comes Robertson with histories of Scotland , of Charles V. , of America , a writer whose style was almost equal to that of ...
... charm of a sequent narrative and an effortless style which was as pleasant to read as a fairy - tale . After Hume comes Robertson with histories of Scotland , of Charles V. , of America , a writer whose style was almost equal to that of ...
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... charms in it against all the little phantoms of ceremony . If it be not so that true friendship sets one free from a scrupulous observance of all those little circumstances , I shall be able to give but a very ill account of myself to ...
... charms in it against all the little phantoms of ceremony . If it be not so that true friendship sets one free from a scrupulous observance of all those little circumstances , I shall be able to give but a very ill account of myself to ...
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... charms , That have made nature start from her old course ; The sun has been eclipsed , the moon drawn down From her career still paler , and subdued To the abuses of this under world . Now I believe all possible . This ring , This ...
... charms , That have made nature start from her old course ; The sun has been eclipsed , the moon drawn down From her career still paler , and subdued To the abuses of this under world . Now I believe all possible . This ring , This ...
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... charms to soothe a savage breast , To soften rocks , or bend a knotted oak . I've read that things inanimate have moved , And , as with living souls , have been informed By magic numbers and persuasive sound . What then am I ? Am I more ...
... charms to soothe a savage breast , To soften rocks , or bend a knotted oak . I've read that things inanimate have moved , And , as with living souls , have been informed By magic numbers and persuasive sound . What then am I ? Am I more ...
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... charms ; The themes of vulgar lays , with just disdain , I leave unsung , the flocks , the amorous swain , The pleasures of the land , and terrors of the main . How abject , how inglorious ' tis to lie Grovelling in dust and darkness ...
... charms ; The themes of vulgar lays , with just disdain , I leave unsung , the flocks , the amorous swain , The pleasures of the land , and terrors of the main . How abject , how inglorious ' tis to lie Grovelling in dust and darkness ...
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Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History Critical ..., Volumen2 Robert Chambers Vista de fragmentos - 1901 |
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Página 360 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply; And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die.
Página 359 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hushed in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
Página 359 - Elegy written in a Country Churchyard. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Página 365 - Tempe's vale her native maids. Amidst the festal sounding shades, To some unwearied minstrel dancing; While, as his flying fingers kissed the strings, Love framed with Mirth a gay fantastic round ; Loose were her tresses seen, her zone unbound; And he, amidst his frolic play, As if he would the charming...
Página 185 - The world recedes: it disappears! Heaven opens on my eyes! my ears With sounds seraphic ring: Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O Grave! where is thy Victory? O Death! where is thy Sting.
Página 358 - Far, far aloof the affrighted ravens sail; The famished eagle screams, and passes by. Dear lost companions of my tuneful art, Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes, Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart, Ye died amidst your dying country's cries! — No more I weep. They do not sleep. On yonder cliffs, a...
Página 356 - Henry's holy shade; And ye, that from the stately brow Of Windsor's heights th' expanse below Of grove, of lawn, of mead survey, Whose turf, whose shade, whose flowers among Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver-winding way: Ah happy hills!
Página 360 - Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire; Hands, that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre. But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll ; Chill Penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.
Página 213 - Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale ; And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth; Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings, as they roll And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Página 211 - Heaven itself, that points out an here-after, And intimates Eternity to man. Eternity ! thou pleasing dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass ! The wide, the unbounded prospect lies before me ; But shadows, clouds, and darkness, rest upon it.