A History of English Literature, in a Series of Biographical SketchesT. Nelson and Sons, 1862 - 538 pagina's |
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Pagina 15
... became phonetic ; that is , expressive of sounds , not things . The Phoenicians , who had much to do with early Egypt , in adopting the art of writing probably abandoned the pictorial part of the hieroglyphic system , and retaining only ...
... became phonetic ; that is , expressive of sounds , not things . The Phoenicians , who had much to do with early Egypt , in adopting the art of writing probably abandoned the pictorial part of the hieroglyphic system , and retaining only ...
Pagina 24
... became acquainted at Parma with the Emperor Charle- magne , who invited him to France . Going thither in 782 , he speedily became one of the most cherished friends of his imperial patron , who was never happier than when he was chatting ...
... became acquainted at Parma with the Emperor Charle- magne , who invited him to France . Going thither in 782 , he speedily became one of the most cherished friends of his imperial patron , who was never happier than when he was chatting ...
Pagina 25
... became his place of retirement , where he spent his learned leisure in training a new generation of scholars , and in writing most of those books by which his name has come down to us . At Tours he died in 804 . The Letters of Alcuin ...
... became his place of retirement , where he spent his learned leisure in training a new generation of scholars , and in writing most of those books by which his name has come down to us . At Tours he died in 804 . The Letters of Alcuin ...
Pagina 26
... became a monk at an early age . His advances in learning were surprisingly rapid , in spite of the convulsive fits to which he was subject , and under the influence of which he thought that he was hunted by devils . Arithmetic ...
... became a monk at an early age . His advances in learning were surprisingly rapid , in spite of the convulsive fits to which he was subject , and under the influence of which he thought that he was hunted by devils . Arithmetic ...
Pagina 33
... became Canon of Bayeux on the recommendation of Henry II . , is thought to have died in England about 1184 . There are two among the Anglo - Norman romancers who are worthy to be named besides , not so much for the excellence of their ...
... became Canon of Bayeux on the recommendation of Henry II . , is thought to have died in England about 1184 . There are two among the Anglo - Norman romancers who are worthy to be named besides , not so much for the excellence of their ...
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Pagina 493 - Kent. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
Pagina 149 - Made by the joiner squirrel, or old grub, Time out of mind the fairies' coach-makers. And in this state she gallops night by night Through lovers...
Pagina 148 - Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses, Or else worth all the rest; I see thee still, And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood, Which was not so before. There's no such thing: It is the bloody business which informs Thus to mine eyes.
Pagina 392 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests ; in all time, — Calm or convulsed, in breeze or gale or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving — boundless, endless, and sublime, The image of eternity, the throne Of the Invisible ; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made ; each zone Obeys thee ; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Pagina 209 - The other Shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb ; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either — black it stood as Night, 670 Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart : what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Pagina 211 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy ; will not drive us hence : Here we may reign secure, and, in my choice, To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven...
Pagina 378 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Pagina 391 - And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee and arbiter of war,— These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride or spoils of Trafalgar.
Pagina 363 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
Pagina 210 - Is this the region, this the soil, the clime," Said then the lost Archangel, "this the seat That we must change for Heaven ? this mournful gloom For that celestial light? Be...