History of the English Language and LiteratureW. and R. Chambers, 1837 - 328 sider |
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... importance also must be allowed to be great . The English language and the literature which it embodies , and especially ... important branch of education , must be decided by the results that may be produced . As Mr. Chambers , with few ...
... importance also must be allowed to be great . The English language and the literature which it embodies , and especially ... important branch of education , must be decided by the results that may be produced . As Mr. Chambers , with few ...
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... importance also must be allowed to be great . The English language and the literature which it embodies , and especially ... important branch of education , must be decided by the results that may be produced . As Mr. Chambers , with few ...
... importance also must be allowed to be great . The English language and the literature which it embodies , and especially ... important branch of education , must be decided by the results that may be produced . As Mr. Chambers , with few ...
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... important transactions . More was a man of most amiable character , and of great learning and natu- ral talent , and was put to death by Henry VIII . , in 1535 , on account of his refusing to acknowledge the supremacy of that monarch ...
... important transactions . More was a man of most amiable character , and of great learning and natu- ral talent , and was put to death by Henry VIII . , in 1535 , on account of his refusing to acknowledge the supremacy of that monarch ...
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... importance , in one of which he gave an account of all the English authors before his own time . There also flourished at this pe- riod several prose chroniclers of English ... important expedition , in 1542 , for the devastation of 3.
... importance , in one of which he gave an account of all the English authors before his own time . There also flourished at this pe- riod several prose chroniclers of English ... important expedition , in 1542 , for the devastation of 3.
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Robert Chambers. important expedition , in 1542 , for the devastation of the Scottish borders . He finally fell under the displeasure of Henry VIII . , and was beheaded on Tower Hill in 1547 . For justness of thought , correctness of ...
Robert Chambers. important expedition , in 1542 , for the devastation of the Scottish borders . He finally fell under the displeasure of Henry VIII . , and was beheaded on Tower Hill in 1547 . For justness of thought , correctness of ...
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History of the English Language and Literature [by Robert Chambers] Robert Chambers Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1857 |
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Side 201 - 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' play, Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow, Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now.
Side 133 - A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Side 25 - No longer mourn for me when I am dead, Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell : 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 108 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Side 30 - You haste away so soon; As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attain'd his noon. Stay, stay Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having pray'd together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring ; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away Like to the Summer's rain ; Or as the pearls of morning's dew, Ne'er to be found again.
Side 45 - Of what is't fools make such vain keeping? Sin their conception, their birth weeping, Their life a general mist of error, Their death a hideous storm of terror. Strew your hair with powders sweet, Don clean linen, bathe your feet, And (the foul fiend more to check) A crucifix let bless your neck : 'Tis now full tide 'tween night and day ; End your groan, and come away.
Side 71 - twixt south and south-west side ; On either which he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute : He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a man's no horse ; He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a lord may be an owl, A calf an alderman, a goose a justice, And rooks committee-men and trustees.
Side 69 - fair light, And thou enlighten'd earth, so fresh and gay, Ye hills, and dales, ye rivers, woods, and plains, And ye that live and move, fair creatures, tell, Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here?
Side 102 - For others good, or melt at others woe. What can atone (oh ever-injur'd shade !) Thy fate unpity'd, and thy rites unpaid ? No friend's complaint, no kind domestic tear Pleas'd thy pale ghost, or grac'd thy mournful bier : By foreign hands thy dying eyes were clos'd, By foreign hands thy decent limbs compos'd, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorn'd, By strangers honour'd, and by strangers mourn'd! What tho' no friends in sable weeds appear.
Side 76 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.