History of the English Language and LiteratureE. Hopkins, 1837 - 328 sider |
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... superseded by the descrip- tion which the American editor has given of these authors , in common with others , whose names appear in the records of our country's lit- erature . CONTENTS . 18 1727 to 1780 . 76 Subsequent to vi PREFACE .
... superseded by the descrip- tion which the American editor has given of these authors , in common with others , whose names appear in the records of our country's lit- erature . CONTENTS . 18 1727 to 1780 . 76 Subsequent to vi PREFACE .
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... tion , and possessed something like the spirit of modern poetry . They were generally founded upon the adven- tures of some real hero , such as Charlemagne or Roland , whose example was held up to imitation as the perfec- tion of human ...
... tion , and possessed something like the spirit of modern poetry . They were generally founded upon the adven- tures of some real hero , such as Charlemagne or Roland , whose example was held up to imitation as the perfec- tion of human ...
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... tion of young persons of the upper ranks in the art of versification ; a fact which proves that poetry had be- come a favourite study among the few who acquired any tincture of letters in that age . Not long after the time of Lydgate ...
... tion of young persons of the upper ranks in the art of versification ; a fact which proves that poetry had be- come a favourite study among the few who acquired any tincture of letters in that age . Not long after the time of Lydgate ...
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... tion of the Earl of Leicester , to whom he had been intro- duced by Sir Philip Sydney . Having been appointed secretary to Lord Grey , the lord - lieutenant of Ireland , he emigrated to that country , where he spent a consid- erable ...
... tion of the Earl of Leicester , to whom he had been intro- duced by Sir Philip Sydney . Having been appointed secretary to Lord Grey , the lord - lieutenant of Ireland , he emigrated to that country , where he spent a consid- erable ...
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... tion . * It may be mentioned that this was the age when collections of fugitive and miscellaneous poetry first be- came common . Several volumes of this kind were pub- lished in the latter part of the reign of Elizabeth , and contain ...
... tion . * It may be mentioned that this was the age when collections of fugitive and miscellaneous poetry first be- came common . Several volumes of this kind were pub- lished in the latter part of the reign of Elizabeth , and contain ...
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Side 139 - 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 31 - 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 140 - The unfeeling for his own. Yet, ah ! why should they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought would destroy their paradise. No more ; — where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.
Side 206 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean — roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ruin— his control Stops with the shore ; — upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed...
Side 36 - 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 107 - And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies. Not louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or when lapdogs breathe their last ; Or when rich China vessels, fall'n from high, In glitt'ring dust and painted fragments lie ! " Let wreaths of triumph now my temples twine...
Side 115 - 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 108 - 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 82 - 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.
Side 77 - 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.