History of the English Language and LiteratureE. Hopkins, 1837 - 328 páginas |
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... genius from his book , was doubtless in conformity with his original plan of bringing into view the English language and literature , as these are exhibited at home . It is not , per- haps , a matter of surprise , that with this ...
... genius from his book , was doubtless in conformity with his original plan of bringing into view the English language and literature , as these are exhibited at home . It is not , per- haps , a matter of surprise , that with this ...
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... genius of Dante and Petrarch , who were the first to pro- duce the sentimental and systematic poetry which has ever since been so considerable a department of Euro- pean literature . Dante wrote chiefly in an allegorical style ; that is ...
... genius of Dante and Petrarch , who were the first to pro- duce the sentimental and systematic poetry which has ever since been so considerable a department of Euro- pean literature . Dante wrote chiefly in an allegorical style ; that is ...
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... genius of the first order , but had improved himself by travel , and by all the learning of the times . Despising alike the dull old rhyming chroniclers , and the more lively minstrels , he aimed at writing after the regular manner of ...
... genius of the first order , but had improved himself by travel , and by all the learning of the times . Despising alike the dull old rhyming chroniclers , and the more lively minstrels , he aimed at writing after the regular manner of ...
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... genius which was suited to satire and burlesque , and a spirit which ventured to attack not obscure indi- viduals only , but men of eminence . His poems consist of satires and sonnets , and similar productions , which are unhappily ...
... genius which was suited to satire and burlesque , and a spirit which ventured to attack not obscure indi- viduals only , but men of eminence . His poems consist of satires and sonnets , and similar productions , which are unhappily ...
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... genius , was a clergyman , and flourished at the Scottish court from about the year 1500 to 1530. Some of his poems are humorous , and refer to humble life ; others are allegorical , and full of beautiful natural im- agery ; a third ...
... genius , was a clergyman , and flourished at the Scottish court from about the year 1500 to 1530. Some of his poems are humorous , and refer to humble life ; others are allegorical , and full of beautiful natural im- agery ; a third ...
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History of the English Language and Literature [by Robert Chambers] Robert Chambers Vista completa - 1857 |
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Página 139 - A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Página 31 - No longer mourn for me when I am dead, Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell : 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 140 - The unfeeling for his own. Yet, ah ! why should they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought would destroy their paradise. No more ; — where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.
Página 206 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean — roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ruin— his control Stops with the shore ; — upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed...
Página 36 - You haste away so soon; As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attain'd his noon. Stay, stay Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having pray'd together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring ; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away Like to the Summer's rain ; Or as the pearls of morning's dew, Ne'er to be found again.
Página 107 - And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies. Not louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or when lapdogs breathe their last ; Or when rich China vessels, fall'n from high, In glitt'ring dust and painted fragments lie ! " Let wreaths of triumph now my temples twine...
Página 115 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Página 108 - For others good, or melt at others woe. What can atone (oh ever-injur'd shade !) Thy fate unpity'd, and thy rites unpaid ? No friend's complaint, no kind domestic tear Pleas'd thy pale ghost, or grac'd thy mournful bier : By foreign hands thy dying eyes were clos'd, By foreign hands thy decent limbs compos'd, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorn'd, By strangers honour'd, and by strangers mourn'd! What tho' no friends in sable weeds appear.
Página 82 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Página 77 - He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a lord may be an owl ; A calf an alderman, a goose a justice, And rooks committee-men and trustees.