Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History Critical and Biographical of Authors in the English Tongue from the Earliest Times Till the Present Day, with Specimens of Their Writing, Volumen1W. & R. Chambers, 1901 |
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... rest are dealt with by Dr Stopford Brooke . See pages 1-31 . Mr A. W. POLLARD . Mr A. W. Pollard has charged himself with Middle English and almost all the writers down to Reformation times - Layamon , the Ormulum , the Chronicles and ...
... rest are dealt with by Dr Stopford Brooke . See pages 1-31 . Mr A. W. POLLARD . Mr A. W. Pollard has charged himself with Middle English and almost all the writers down to Reformation times - Layamon , the Ormulum , the Chronicles and ...
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... rest . None of them thought , there , that thence should he after , evermore again , seek his home beloved , ( his ) folk or ( his ) free burg , where he had been fostered . But they had been hearing that by far too many erewhile in ...
... rest . None of them thought , there , that thence should he after , evermore again , seek his home beloved , ( his ) folk or ( his ) free burg , where he had been fostered . But they had been hearing that by far too many erewhile in ...
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... rest , founds a church , and sails away . There is no doubt of the authorship of the Elene , which Cynewulf wrote when he was ' old and ready for death in my frail tabernacle . ' It is the last of the signed poems . He was now a careful ...
... rest , founds a church , and sails away . There is no doubt of the authorship of the Elene , which Cynewulf wrote when he was ' old and ready for death in my frail tabernacle . ' It is the last of the signed poems . He was now a careful ...
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... Rest for righteous doers , rest withouten strife , For the good and blessed ! Without gloom the day , Bright and full of blossoming ; bliss that's sorrowless ; Peace all friends between , ever without enmity ; Love that envieth not , in ...
... Rest for righteous doers , rest withouten strife , For the good and blessed ! Without gloom the day , Bright and full of blossoming ; bliss that's sorrowless ; Peace all friends between , ever without enmity ; Love that envieth not , in ...
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... rest at Winchester . Only two books not done by himself were , as far as we know , set forth in his reign . One was the Dialogues of Gregory , translated , by Ælfred's request , by Werfrith , Bishop of Worcester . Ælfred wrote the ...
... rest at Winchester . Only two books not done by himself were , as far as we know , set forth in his reign . One was the Dialogues of Gregory , translated , by Ælfred's request , by Werfrith , Bishop of Worcester . Ælfred wrote the ...
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Página 368 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves ; And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him, When he comes back ; you demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites ; and you, whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms...
Página 356 - This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands, — This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, Fear'd by their breed, and famous by their birth...
Página 362 - Harry, I do not only marvel where thou spendest thy time, but also how thou art accompanied : for though the camomile, the more it is trodden on the faster it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted the sooner it wears.
Página 368 - Dis's waggon! daffodils That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath...
Página 355 - So many hours must I tend my flock; So many hours must I take my rest; So many hours must I contemplate; So many hours must I sport myself...
Página 358 - Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace.
Página 349 - A gown made of the finest wool, Which from our pretty lambs we pull, Fair lined slippers for the cold, With buckles of the purest gold. ' A belt of straw and ivy buds With coral clasps and amber studs : And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me and be my Love.
Página 362 - A made a finer end, and went away, an it had been any christom child ; 'a parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide : for after I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers, and smile upon his fingers...
Página 349 - Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten: In folly ripe, in reason rotten. Thy belt of straw and ivy buds, Thy coral clasps and amber studs, All these in me no means can move To come to thee, and be thy love.
Página 408 - And joyed to wear the dressing of his lines ! Which were so richly spun, and woven so fit, As, since, she will vouchsafe no other wit. The merry Greek, tart Aristophanes, Neat Terence, witty Plautus, now not please ; But antiquated and deserted lie, As they were not of nature's family. Yet must I not give nature all ; thy art, My gentle SHAKESPEARE, must enjoy a part.