Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from the Earliest to the Present Time, Connected by a Critical and Biographical History, Volume 1Robert Chambers Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1849 |
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... rest can take , All night minstrels for you shall wake . IMMEDIATE PREDECESSORS OF Chaucer . • Hitherto , we have seen English poetry only in the forms of the chronicle and the romance : of its many other forms , so familiar now , in ...
... rest can take , All night minstrels for you shall wake . IMMEDIATE PREDECESSORS OF Chaucer . • Hitherto , we have seen English poetry only in the forms of the chronicle and the romance : of its many other forms , so familiar now , in ...
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... rest standeth in little business ; Beware also to spurn against a nalle ; 17 Strive not as doth a crocké18 with a wall ; Deemeth 19 thyself that deemest other's deed , And truth thee shall deliver ' t is no drede . That20 thee is sent ...
... rest standeth in little business ; Beware also to spurn against a nalle ; 17 Strive not as doth a crocké18 with a wall ; Deemeth 19 thyself that deemest other's deed , And truth thee shall deliver ' t is no drede . That20 thee is sent ...
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... rest With king's child , where she tasteth costly food . Hunsdon did first present her to mine een : Bright is her hue , and Geraldine she hight : Hampton me taught to wish her first for mine : And Windsor , alas , doth chase me from ...
... rest With king's child , where she tasteth costly food . Hunsdon did first present her to mine een : Bright is her hue , and Geraldine she hight : Hampton me taught to wish her first for mine : And Windsor , alas , doth chase me from ...
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... rest . Remember thy soul ; let no fancy prevail ; Make ready to God - ward ; let faith never quail : The sooner thyself thou submittest to God , The sooner he ceaseth to scourge with his rod . [ Moral Reflections on the Wind . ] Though ...
... rest . Remember thy soul ; let no fancy prevail ; Make ready to God - ward ; let faith never quail : The sooner thyself thou submittest to God , The sooner he ceaseth to scourge with his rod . [ Moral Reflections on the Wind . ] Though ...
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... rest are plain but chaff Which seem good corn to be . This gift alone I shall her give : When Death doth what he can , Her honest fame shall ever live Within the mouth of man . Amantium Iræ amoris redintegratio est . [ By Richard ...
... rest are plain but chaff Which seem good corn to be . This gift alone I shall her give : When Death doth what he can , Her honest fame shall ever live Within the mouth of man . Amantium Iræ amoris redintegratio est . [ By Richard ...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ... Robert Chambers Visualização integral - 1847 |
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ... Robert Chambers Visualização integral - 1847 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
afterwards beauty Ben Jonson body breast breath Cædmon Cæsar called church court death delight divine doth Dr Johnson Dryden Earl earth England English eyes Faery Queen fair fancy fear fire flowers gentle give grace hand happy hast hath hear heart heaven Henry Henry VIII holy honour Hudibras Izaak Walton Jeremy Taylor John Lesley Jonson king labour lady language learning leave light live look Lord Macbeth marriage mind muse nature never night noble nymph passion play pleasure poem poet poetical poetry poor praise prince published Queen racter reign rich Scotland Shakspeare sing sleep song soul speak Spenser spirit St Serf style sweet taste tell thee thine things thou thought tion tongue truth unto verse virtue wind wine wise words write youth
Passagens conhecidas
Página 185 - Here, under leave of Brutus, and the rest, (For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men;) Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral. He was my friend, faithful and just to me: But Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man.
Página 132 - Sweet Day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die.
Página 329 - MAY MORNING. Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire ; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long.
Página 107 - 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 395 - ... 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. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Página 331 - Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful jollity, Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek ; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides...
Página 333 - Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That owned the virtuous ring and glass, And of the wondrous horse of brass, On which the Tartar king did ride...
Página 243 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business.
Página 187 - To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling...
Página 334 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new world ; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...