A History of English Literature, in a Series of Biographical SketchesT. Nelson and Sons, 1862 - 538 páginas |
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... the scenery and the society , amid which an author played out his fleeting part , have left indelible hues upon the pages that he wrote . Instead of trying to compress the History of our iv PREFACE . Books into the framework formed by the.
... the scenery and the society , amid which an author played out his fleeting part , have left indelible hues upon the pages that he wrote . Instead of trying to compress the History of our iv PREFACE . Books into the framework formed by the.
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... SHUTTING OF THE THEATRES IN 1648 A.D. 1. The Plays and Players of Old Eng- land .... 101 IL . Roger Ascham ..................... .. 108 VIII . Our English Bible ... ....... ..................... . IX . William Shakspere ...... ............
... SHUTTING OF THE THEATRES IN 1648 A.D. 1. The Plays and Players of Old Eng- land .... 101 IL . Roger Ascham ..................... .. 108 VIII . Our English Bible ... ....... ..................... . IX . William Shakspere ...... ............
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... play upon the adornment of these dim legends , mixes fact with fiction in a confusion that cannot be disentangled . Gerald Barry ( Giraldus Cambrensis ) , Henry of Huntingdon , Roger of Hoveden , and Benedict , Abbot of Peterborough ...
... play upon the adornment of these dim legends , mixes fact with fiction in a confusion that cannot be disentangled . Gerald Barry ( Giraldus Cambrensis ) , Henry of Huntingdon , Roger of Hoveden , and Benedict , Abbot of Peterborough ...
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... played on a viele , supposed to have been like a guitar , in the top of which one hand turned a handle , while the ... playing a musical accompaniment and gesturing with imitative motions , it came to apply afterwards chiefly to the ...
... played on a viele , supposed to have been like a guitar , in the top of which one hand turned a handle , while the ... playing a musical accompaniment and gesturing with imitative motions , it came to apply afterwards chiefly to the ...
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... playing on the flute With lockes crull as they were laide in presse . Of twenty yere of age he was I gesse . Of his stature he was of even lengthe , And wonderly deliver , and grete of strengthe . And he hadde be somtime in cherachie ...
... playing on the flute With lockes crull as they were laide in presse . Of twenty yere of age he was I gesse . Of his stature he was of even lengthe , And wonderly deliver , and grete of strengthe . And he hadde be somtime in cherachie ...
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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...