A History of English Literature, in a Series of Biographical SketchesT. Nelson and Sons, 1862 - 538 páginas |
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... later writings , re- duced to their principal parts , or even to lines , the latter being the first step toward the formation of an alphabet . For instance , a combat is represented by two arms , one bearing a shield , the other a pike ...
... later writings , re- duced to their principal parts , or even to lines , the latter being the first step toward the formation of an alphabet . For instance , a combat is represented by two arms , one bearing a shield , the other a pike ...
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... later date than the earliest Irish ballads . The poems of Ossian- Fingal and Temora — which were published in 1762 and 1763 by James Macpherson , as translations from Gaelic manuscripts as old as the fourth century , are now generally ...
... later date than the earliest Irish ballads . The poems of Ossian- Fingal and Temora — which were published in 1762 and 1763 by James Macpherson , as translations from Gaelic manuscripts as old as the fourth century , are now generally ...
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... later the cloisters of Wearmouth were his home ; and within their quiet seclusion he wrote the great work , on which his title to the name Venerable is justly founded . In his fifty - ninth year he brought to a close his famous History ...
... later the cloisters of Wearmouth were his home ; and within their quiet seclusion he wrote the great work , on which his title to the name Venerable is justly founded . In his fifty - ninth year he brought to a close his famous History ...
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... later days recited sometimes their own compositions , but oftener the poems of others . And by no means ignoble was the occupation of these musical wanderers . When Alfred donned the minstrel's dress , he took a downward step , to be ...
... later days recited sometimes their own compositions , but oftener the poems of others . And by no means ignoble was the occupation of these musical wanderers . When Alfred donned the minstrel's dress , he took a downward step , to be ...
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... later stage than that of which we write , when the profession had fallen low in public esteem , it may yet serve to give us an idea of the kind of men who wandered from hall to hall , embalming in song those picturesque old histories of ...
... later stage than that of which we write , when the profession had fallen low in public esteem , it may yet serve to give us an idea of the kind of men who wandered from hall to hall , embalming in song those picturesque old histories of ...
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Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...