A History of English Literature: In a Series of Biographical SketchesT. Nelson and Sons, 1868 - 529 páginas |
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... illustrative specimens , intended mainly to form the basis of lessons on variety of style , are appended to all the leading lives . Since names that cannot be passed over grow very thick towards the end , the closing chapters of the ...
... illustrative specimens , intended mainly to form the basis of lessons on variety of style , are appended to all the leading lives . Since names that cannot be passed over grow very thick towards the end , the closing chapters of the ...
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... Illustrative extract . THE earliest writer of English prose , whose work survives , was Sir John de Mandeville . He was born at St. Albans in Hertfordshire about the year 1300. Educated for the medical profession , he had scarcely ...
... Illustrative extract . THE earliest writer of English prose , whose work survives , was Sir John de Mandeville . He was born at St. Albans in Hertfordshire about the year 1300. Educated for the medical profession , he had scarcely ...
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... Illustrative extract . ON a rocky point , overhanging the Tees in Yorkshire , a manor- house stood , in which once lived the Wycliffes of Wycliffe . * There , probably in 1324 , a boy was born , who has gilded the family name with ...
... Illustrative extract . ON a rocky point , overhanging the Tees in Yorkshire , a manor- house stood , in which once lived the Wycliffes of Wycliffe . * There , probably in 1324 , a boy was born , who has gilded the family name with ...
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... Illustrative extracts . CHAUCER is a star of the first magnitude . First great writer of English verse , he proudly wears the honoured title , - " Father of English Poetry ; " nor can the most brilliant of his successors feel ashamed of ...
... Illustrative extracts . CHAUCER is a star of the first magnitude . First great writer of English verse , he proudly wears the honoured title , - " Father of English Poetry ; " nor can the most brilliant of his successors feel ashamed of ...
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... Illustrative extract . THOUGH ranking far below the great Father of English Poetry , " the moral Gower , " as his friend Chaucer calls him in the " Troilus and Creseide , " yet holds an honoured place among our earlier bards . We know ...
... Illustrative extract . THOUGH ranking far below the great Father of English Poetry , " the moral Gower , " as his friend Chaucer calls him in the " Troilus and Creseide , " yet holds an honoured place among our earlier bards . We know ...
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Página 348 - Seven years, my Lord, have now past, since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it, at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour.
Página 390 - 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 207 - 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 348 - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help ? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary. and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
Página 338 - In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs — and God has given my share — I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose...
Página 376 - 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 361 - 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 209 - No sooner had the Almighty ceased but — all The multitude of Angels, with a shout Loud as from numbers without number, sweet As from blest voices, uttering joy — Heaven rung With jubilee, and loud hosannas filled The eternal regions.
Página 209 - 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 390 - Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts: not so thou; Unchangeable save to thy wild waves