A History of English Literature, in a Series of Biographical SketchesT. Nelson and Sons, 1862 - 538 sider |
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Side 23
... died at Dilton in May 709. His chief works are three ; a prose treatise in praise of Virginity , —a work in verse on the same subject , and a book of Riddles . His Latin is impure , filled with Greek words , and stuffed with those ...
... died at Dilton in May 709. His chief works are three ; a prose treatise in praise of Virginity , —a work in verse on the same subject , and a book of Riddles . His Latin is impure , filled with Greek words , and stuffed with those ...
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... dying bed . From the beginning of April until the end of May 735 , he continued to sink under an attack of asthma , which ... died as the last words of the sacred utterance were breathed from his lips . 735 A.D. ALCUIN . - The year 735 ...
... dying bed . From the beginning of April until the end of May 735 , he continued to sink under an attack of asthma , which ... died as the last words of the sacred utterance were breathed from his lips . 735 A.D. ALCUIN . - The year 735 ...
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... Died 1372 A.D. First English prose . Mandeville's birth . His travels . His return . His book written . His wild stories . Value of his book . Illustrative extract . THE earliest writer of English prose , whose work survives , was Sir ...
... Died 1372 A.D. First English prose . Mandeville's birth . His travels . His return . His book written . His wild stories . Value of his book . Illustrative extract . THE earliest writer of English prose , whose work survives , was Sir ...
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... died , and his grandson Richard reigned . So marked a man had Wycliffe become in this Reformation struggle , that the first Parliament of Richard II . submitted to him a question , “ Was it lawful to keep back the treasure of the king ...
... died , and his grandson Richard reigned . So marked a man had Wycliffe become in this Reformation struggle , that the first Parliament of Richard II . submitted to him a question , “ Was it lawful to keep back the treasure of the king ...
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... Died 1400 A.D. Comptroller of Customs . Sunshine . Under Richard II . Flight of the poet . Abroad . In the Tower . Evening of life . Character . The " Canterbury Tales . " Manner of reading Chaucer . Minor works . Illustrative extracts ...
... Died 1400 A.D. Comptroller of Customs . Sunshine . Under Richard II . Flight of the poet . Abroad . In the Tower . Evening of life . Character . The " Canterbury Tales . " Manner of reading Chaucer . Minor works . Illustrative extracts ...
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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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Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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...