Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of British and American Authors, with Specimens of Their Writings, Volumes 1-2Robert Chambers American Book Exchange, 1880 |
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Pagina viii
... England .. PAGE . 267 The Character of a Happy Life .. To his Mistress the Queen of Bohe- mia 233 Prologue to King David and Fair Bethsabe . .268 233 Parable of Nathan and David . .289 Lord Brooke ( 1554-1628 ) . 233 Song , " Cupid's ...
... England .. PAGE . 267 The Character of a Happy Life .. To his Mistress the Queen of Bohe- mia 233 Prologue to King David and Fair Bethsabe . .268 233 Parable of Nathan and David . .289 Lord Brooke ( 1554-1628 ) . 233 Song , " Cupid's ...
Pagina 10
... England , and communicated them to Geoffrey , by whom they were put into the form of a regular histori- cal work , and introduced for the first time to the learned world . As little else than a bundle of incredible stories , partly ...
... England , and communicated them to Geoffrey , by whom they were put into the form of a regular histori- cal work , and introduced for the first time to the learned world . As little else than a bundle of incredible stories , partly ...
Pagina 11
... England from the period of the Saxon invasion to the 26th Henry I. in 1126 , and a continuation to 1143 , with a history of the church , and other works ( this monk of Malmesbury is the most able and original of the early historians ) ...
... England from the period of the Saxon invasion to the 26th Henry I. in 1126 , and a continuation to 1143 , with a history of the church , and other works ( this monk of Malmesbury is the most able and original of the early historians ) ...
Pagina 16
... England and the Normans about 1300 . Thuse come , lo ! Engelond into Normannes honde ; And the Normans ne couthe speke tho bote her owe speche , And speke French as dude atom , and here chyldren dude al so teche ; So that heymen of thys ...
... England and the Normans about 1300 . Thuse come , lo ! Engelond into Normannes honde ; And the Normans ne couthe speke tho bote her owe speche , And speke French as dude atom , and here chyldren dude al so teche ; So that heymen of thys ...
Pagina 21
... England previous to the invention of printing . It is the popular representative of the doctrines which were silently bringing about the Reformation , and it is a peculiarly national poem , not only as being a much purer specimen of the ...
... England previous to the invention of printing . It is the popular representative of the doctrines which were silently bringing about the Reformation , and it is a peculiarly national poem , not only as being a much purer specimen of the ...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 1-2 Robert Chambers Volledige weergave - 1885 |
Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 1-2 Robert Chambers Volledige weergave - 1880 |
Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 1-2 Robert Chambers Volledige weergave - 1880 |
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Pagina 186 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's •waste...
Pagina 6 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; .and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Pagina 271 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
Pagina 184 - ... That time of year thou may'st in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou seest the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night doth take away, Death's second self, that seals up all in rest. In me thou seest the glowing of such fire, That on the ashes of his youth doth lie, As the death-bed whereon it must expire, Consumed with...
Pagina 159 - Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Pagina 271 - I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's 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.
Pagina 380 - And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill: But their strong nerves at last must yield; They tame but one another still: Early or late They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath, When they, pale captives, creep to death. The garlands wither on your brow, Then boast no more your mighty deeds; Upon Death's purple altar now See, where the victor-victim bleeds: Your heads must...
Pagina 164 - Their dread commander: he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower: his form had yet not lost All her original brightness; nor appeared Less than arch-angel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured: as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams; or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Pagina 166 - Air, and ye elements, the eldest birth Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle, multiform, and mix And nourish all things ; let your ceaseless change Vary to our great Maker still new praise. Ye mists and exhalations, that now rise From hill or steaming lake, dusky or gray, Till the sun paint your fleecy skirts with gold, In honour to the world's great author, rise...
Pagina 162 - Neaera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.