English Literature: From the age of Johnson to the age of Tennyson, by Edmund GosseMacmillan, 1903 |
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... wrote , but also how they looked and lived . This aim has been admirably fulfilled ; the pages of the volumes are a rich feast of illus- trations , all drawn from authentic sources . It was a happy idea , which is being excellently ...
... wrote , but also how they looked and lived . This aim has been admirably fulfilled ; the pages of the volumes are a rich feast of illus- trations , all drawn from authentic sources . It was a happy idea , which is being excellently ...
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... wrote , for the first time , with ease and fluency . There was little to be said in favour of an anonymous satire in verse , Antithelyphthora , but he was now , as he approached his fiftieth year , about to be- come a poet . His first ...
... wrote , for the first time , with ease and fluency . There was little to be said in favour of an anonymous satire in verse , Antithelyphthora , but he was now , as he approached his fiftieth year , about to be- come a poet . His first ...
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... wrote , without an introduction , to Edmund Burke , who saw him , took a fancy to him , and generously befriended him . Under the genial patronage of Burke , who introduced him to Rey- nolds , Thurlow , and Fox , Crabbe published anony ...
... wrote , without an introduction , to Edmund Burke , who saw him , took a fancy to him , and generously befriended him . Under the genial patronage of Burke , who introduced him to Rey- nolds , Thurlow , and Fox , Crabbe published anony ...
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... alienated him still further from those whose companionship might have been useful to him . He grew moody and hypochondriacal . He forgot that life had ever been fire in his veins ; he wrote , ". 24 HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.
... alienated him still further from those whose companionship might have been useful to him . He grew moody and hypochondriacal . He forgot that life had ever been fire in his veins ; he wrote , ". 24 HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.
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Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse. been fire in his veins ; he wrote , " I have only known existence by the pressure of sickness and counted time by the repercussions of pain . " Yet , as late as 1794 , he could write the Address to the Deil ...
Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse. been fire in his veins ; he wrote , " I have only known existence by the pressure of sickness and counted time by the repercussions of pain . " Yet , as late as 1794 , he could write the Address to the Deil ...
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Página 23 - John Anderson my jo. John Anderson my jo, John, We clamb the hill thegither ; And mony a canty day, John, We've had wi' ane anither : Now we maun totter down, John, But hand in hand we'll go, And sleep thegither at the foot, John Anderson my jo.
Página 69 - He stayed not for brake, and he stopped not for stone, He swam the Eske River where ford there was none; But, ere he alighted at Netherby gate, The bride had consented, the gallant came late: For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war, Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar. So boldly he...
Página 138 - Bright Star! would I were steadfast as thou art — Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores...
Página 52 - The shadow of the dome of pleasure Floated midway on the waves; Where was heard the mingled measure From the fountain and the caves. It was a miracle of rare device, A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!
Página 70 - mong Graemes of the Netherby clan; Forsters, Fenwicks, and Musgraves, they rode and they ran: There was racing and chasing on Cannobie Lee, But the lost bride of Netherby ne'er did they see, So daring in love, and so dauntless in war, Have ye e'er heard of gallant like young Lochinvar?
Página 43 - SHE dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise, And very few to love. A Violet by a mossy stone Half-hidden from the eye ! — Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky.
Página 60 - In life's morning march, when my bosom was young ; I heard my own mountain-goats bleating aloft, And knew the sweet strain that the corn-reapers sung.
Página 200 - OF all the thoughts of God that are Borne inward unto souls afar, Along the Psalmist's music deep — Now tell me if that any is, For gift or grace surpassing this — "He giveth His beloved sleep?
Página 111 - Is lone as some volcanic isle; No torch is kindled at its blaze— A funeral pile. The hope, the fear, the jealous care, The exalted portion of the pain And power of love, I cannot share, But wear the chain.
Página 69 - O come ye in peace here, or come ye in war, Or to dance at our bridal, young Lord Lochinvar?