A History of English Literature, in a Series of Biographical SketchesT. Nelson and Sons, 1862 - 538 páginas |
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... story had perished when the fathers of the tribe were gathered to their rest . In some nations the earliest records were knotted cords . Strings of different colours , with knots of various sizes and variously arranged , contained the ...
... story had perished when the fathers of the tribe were gathered to their rest . In some nations the earliest records were knotted cords . Strings of different colours , with knots of various sizes and variously arranged , contained the ...
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... story of the year . denoting calamity , is found in two of them . But the chief story is told by the coloured forms of the centre , where we have the sovereign painted twice , as a stern - looking head , capped with a serpent crest ...
... story of the year . denoting calamity , is found in two of them . But the chief story is told by the coloured forms of the centre , where we have the sovereign painted twice , as a stern - looking head , capped with a serpent crest ...
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... story of the ambassadors ; and , crossing two of these from the right , there comes a red arm to announce the introduction to the royal presence . To attempt a description of the symbols here would be absurd . No fewer than twenty ...
... story of the ambassadors ; and , crossing two of these from the right , there comes a red arm to announce the introduction to the royal presence . To attempt a description of the symbols here would be absurd . No fewer than twenty ...
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... story of their deeds to their children , was couched in rough metre , in order that the ring of the lines might help the memory to retain the tale . Oldest of all British literature , or , indeed , of all literature in modern Europe ...
... story of their deeds to their children , was couched in rough metre , in order that the ring of the lines might help the memory to retain the tale . Oldest of all British literature , or , indeed , of all literature in modern Europe ...
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... story of his own day , it went , without his name to mark it , into the common stock of his craft . Hence the Anglo - Saxon poetry is anonymous . The structure of the verse in which these gleemen sang is thus described by Wright ...
... story of his own day , it went , without his name to mark it , into the common stock of his craft . Hence the Anglo - Saxon poetry is anonymous . The structure of the verse in which these gleemen sang is thus described by Wright ...
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Addison afterwards amid Anglo-Saxon appeared Archbishop of Canterbury beauty became Bible born brilliant called Cambridge CHAPTER Charles chief chiefly Church College coloured court death died drama Dublin Earl early Edinburgh Edinburgh Review England English English poetry Essays Faerie Queene fame father finest France genius gentle heart Henry History honour Illustrative extract James John John Milton King Lady land Latin letters literary literature lived London Lord Milton mind minstrels night noble novel novelist Oxford paper Paradise Lost picture play poem poet poet's poetic poetry poor prose published Puritan Queen reign ROGER ASCHAM romance round royal Saxon scene Scotland Scottish Shakspere song SPECIMEN spent story style Supplementary List sweet Tatler Thomas Thomas Fuller thought took tragedy translation Trinity College University of Edinburgh verse WILLIAM wonderful words writer written wrote young
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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...