A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged from Sir John Mandeville to William Cowper : Consisting of Biographical Sketches of the Authors, Selections from Their Works, with Notes ... : Designed as a Text-book for the Highest Classes in Schools and for Junior Classes in Colleges, as Well as for Private ReadingE.C. & J. Biddle, 1852 - 776 pagina's |
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Pagina 3
... hope that my own work would give the reader a greater longing to extend his inqui- ries into the same most interesting subject - one so rich in every thing that can refine the taste , enlarge the understanding , and improve the heart ...
... hope that my own work would give the reader a greater longing to extend his inqui- ries into the same most interesting subject - one so rich in every thing that can refine the taste , enlarge the understanding , and improve the heart ...
Pagina 4
... hope and pray that it may contain not one line , original or selected , which can have the least injurious effect upon a single mind ; not one line which , " dying , I might wish to blot ; " - but that , on the contrary , it may render ...
... hope and pray that it may contain not one line , original or selected , which can have the least injurious effect upon a single mind ; not one line which , " dying , I might wish to blot ; " - but that , on the contrary , it may render ...
Pagina 29
... hope to standen in his lady's grace . Embroider'd was he , as it were a mead All full of freshé flowrés white and red : Singing he was or floyting9 all the day ; He was as fresh as is the month of May : Short was his gown , with sleevés ...
... hope to standen in his lady's grace . Embroider'd was he , as it were a mead All full of freshé flowrés white and red : Singing he was or floyting9 all the day ; He was as fresh as is the month of May : Short was his gown , with sleevés ...
Pagina 62
... hope of speed , what dread of long delays . The wild forést , the clothed holts with green ; 10 With reins avail'd , " 1 and swift - ybreathed horse , With cry of hounds , and merry blasts between , Where we did chase the fearful hart ...
... hope of speed , what dread of long delays . The wild forést , the clothed holts with green ; 10 With reins avail'd , " 1 and swift - ybreathed horse , With cry of hounds , and merry blasts between , Where we did chase the fearful hart ...
Pagina 76
... hope of calling the attention of the learned from the exclusive study of the Greek and Latin , to the cultivation of their vernacular language.3 Consequently , he was one of the first founders of a style truly English in 1 Whereas . 2 ...
... hope of calling the attention of the learned from the exclusive study of the Greek and Latin , to the cultivation of their vernacular language.3 Consequently , he was one of the first founders of a style truly English in 1 Whereas . 2 ...
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