History of the English Language and LiteratureW. and R. Chambers, 1837 - 328 páginas |
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... object , or limited in extent , the only History of English Literature which has as yet been given to the world , this volume was necessarily the result of considerable labour . Very great pains have been taken to ensure correctness in ...
... object , or limited in extent , the only History of English Literature which has as yet been given to the world , this volume was necessarily the result of considerable labour . Very great pains have been taken to ensure correctness in ...
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... objects , such as hills and rivers , are borrowed from this language , but we do not derive from it many of the words in our common speech . In the fifth century , a people called Saxons , from Lower Germany , landed in the country now ...
... objects , such as hills and rivers , are borrowed from this language , but we do not derive from it many of the words in our common speech . In the fifth century , a people called Saxons , from Lower Germany , landed in the country now ...
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... object the rescue of the Holy Land from the dominion of the Saracens . A consider- able number of the productions of the minstrels have been handed down in manuscript to modern times ; and their manner of writing has been in some ...
... object the rescue of the Holy Land from the dominion of the Saracens . A consider- able number of the productions of the minstrels have been handed down in manuscript to modern times ; and their manner of writing has been in some ...
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... objects , such as hills , rivers , and woods . The prevailing taste of Drayton is a mixture of the historical and the poetical ; and besides the Polyolbion , he wrote several poems , in which these two characteristics are very happily ...
... objects , such as hills , rivers , and woods . The prevailing taste of Drayton is a mixture of the historical and the poetical ; and besides the Polyolbion , he wrote several poems , in which these two characteristics are very happily ...
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... objects , and present some just pictures of the more re- markable anomalies in human character : they are also written in a style of greater polish and volubility than most of the compositions of this age . Richard Corbet , a preceding ...
... objects , and present some just pictures of the more re- markable anomalies in human character : they are also written in a style of greater polish and volubility than most of the compositions of this age . Richard Corbet , a preceding ...
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Página 143 - A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Página 33 - You haste away so soon; As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attain'd his noon. Stay, stay Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having pray'd together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring ; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away Like to the Summer's rain ; Or as the pearls of morning's dew, Ne'er to be found again.
Página 208 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean - roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy...
Página 28 - I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell : Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it ; for I love you so That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot If thinking on me then should make you woe. O, if, I say, you look upon this verse When I perhaps compounded am with clay, Do not so much as my poor name rehearse, But let your love even with my life decay, Lest the wise world should look into your moan And mock you with me after I am gone.
Página 28 - No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell : Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it; for I love you so That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot If thinking on me then should make you woe.
Página 79 - He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a lord may be an owl, A calf an alderman, a goose a justice, And rooks committee-men and trustees ; He'd run in debt by disputation, And pay with ratiocination.
Página 51 - Of what is't fools make such vain keeping? Sin their conception, their birth weeping, Their life a general mist of error, Their death a hideous storm of terror. Strew your hair with powders sweet, Don clean linen, bathe your feet, And (the foul fiend more to check) A crucifix let bless your neck : 'Tis now full tide 'tween night and day ; End your groan, and come away.
Página 110 - The little engine on his fingers' ends; This just behind Belinda's neck he spread, As o'er the fragrant steams she bends her head. Swift to the lock a thousand sprites repair...
Página 111 - And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies. Not louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or when lapdogs breathe their last ; Or when rich China vessels, fall'n from high, In glitt'ring dust and painted fragments lie ! " Let wreaths of triumph now my temples twine...
Página 53 - QUEEN and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light, Goddess, excellently bright! Earth, let not thy envious shade Dare itself to interpose: Cynthia's shining orb was made Heaven to clear when day did close: Bless us then with wished sight, Goddess, excellently bright! Lay thy bow of pearl apart, And thy crystal shining quiver: Give unto the flying hart Space to breathe, how short soever; Thou that...