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, Bind 1Robert Chambers Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1849 |
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... written both in Latin and in the native tongue . * HE ENGLISH LANGUAGE is The earliest name in the list of Anglo - Saxon essentially a writers is that of Gildas , generally described as a branch of the missionary of British parentage ...
... written both in Latin and in the native tongue . * HE ENGLISH LANGUAGE is The earliest name in the list of Anglo - Saxon essentially a writers is that of Gildas , generally described as a branch of the missionary of British parentage ...
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... written , it is believed , by a series of authors , commencing soon after the time of Alfred , and continued till the reign of Henry II . Altogether , considering the general state of Western Europe in the middle ages , the literature ...
... written , it is believed , by a series of authors , commencing soon after the time of Alfred , and continued till the reign of Henry II . Altogether , considering the general state of Western Europe in the middle ages , the literature ...
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... written in their language trouveres . In Provence , there arose a series of elegant versifiers , who employed their talents in composing romantic and complimentary poems , full of warlike and ama- tory sentiment , which many of them ...
... written in their language trouveres . In Provence , there arose a series of elegant versifiers , who employed their talents in composing romantic and complimentary poems , full of warlike and ama- tory sentiment , which many of them ...
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... written in Latin by learned ecclesiastics , the principal of whom were John of Salisbury , Peter of Blois , Joseph of Exeter , and GEOFFREY of MONMOUTH , the last being the author of the History of England just alluded to , which is ...
... written in Latin by learned ecclesiastics , the principal of whom were John of Salisbury , Peter of Blois , Joseph of Exeter , and GEOFFREY of MONMOUTH , the last being the author of the History of England just alluded to , which is ...
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... written in musical and energetic stanzas , of which one is subjoined : - Jerusalem , thou hast i - lore 2 The flour of all chivalerie , Nou Kyng Edward liveth na more , Alas ! that he yet shulde deye ! He wolde ha rered up ful heyge 3 ...
... written in musical and energetic stanzas , of which one is subjoined : - Jerusalem , thou hast i - lore 2 The flour of all chivalerie , Nou Kyng Edward liveth na more , Alas ! that he yet shulde deye ! He wolde ha rered up ful heyge 3 ...
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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
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Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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...