Cassell's library of English literature, selected, ed. and arranged by H. Morley, Volumen 3;Volumen 791876 |
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... Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo , " 1816 ) . · Ruins of Hougoumont . ( From the same ) . John Wilson 296 Thomas De ... Poets , " 1781 ) . 306 Craigenputtoch 323 Thomas Carlyle's House at Craigenputtoch Charles Dickens • • • · 332 Sir ...
... Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo , " 1816 ) . · Ruins of Hougoumont . ( From the same ) . John Wilson 296 Thomas De ... Poets , " 1781 ) . 306 Craigenputtoch 323 Thomas Carlyle's House at Craigenputtoch Charles Dickens • • • · 332 Sir ...
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... poets would remember his " homely definition of prose and poetry- that is , prose is words in their best order ; poetry , the best words in the best order . " The definition may be homely , but it is not true . No writer of prose would ...
... poets would remember his " homely definition of prose and poetry- that is , prose is words in their best order ; poetry , the best words in the best order . " The definition may be homely , but it is not true . No writer of prose would ...
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... poet Ovid affirmeth , saying in this sentence- " Whiles Fortune thee favoureth , friends thou hast plenty . The time being troublous , thou art all alone . Thou seest culvers haunt houses made white and dainty ; To the ruinous tower ...
... poet Ovid affirmeth , saying in this sentence- " Whiles Fortune thee favoureth , friends thou hast plenty . The time being troublous , thou art all alone . Thou seest culvers haunt houses made white and dainty ; To the ruinous tower ...
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... poets among many nobles of that time who wrote good verse . He had been sent to Spain in 1537 , the year of the birth of Edward , afterwards King Edward VI . , and from Spain he addressed these letters to his only son , that Thomas ...
... poets among many nobles of that time who wrote good verse . He had been sent to Spain in 1537 , the year of the birth of Edward , afterwards King Edward VI . , and from Spain he addressed these letters to his only son , that Thomas ...
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... poet , died in 1471. When serving Alfonso of Arragon , King of Naples , he was sent in 1451 on a mission to Venice to obtain an arm- bone of Livy , in which negotiation he succeeded . He is said also to have sold an estate that he might ...
... poet , died in 1471. When serving Alfonso of Arragon , King of Naples , he was sent in 1451 on a mission to Venice to obtain an arm- bone of Livy , in which negotiation he succeeded . He is said also to have sold an estate that he might ...
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Página 283 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it.
Página 115 - Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Página 146 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what Nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors : a Nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Página 113 - ... certain it is that whosoever hath his mind fraught with many thoughts, his wits and understanding do clarify and break up in the communicating and discoursing with another:, he tosseth his thoughts more easily; he marshalleth them more orderly; he seeth how they look when they are turned into words; finally, he waxeth wiser than himself, and that more by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation.
Página 114 - 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...
Página 146 - Behold now this vast city ; a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with his protection. The shop of war hath not there more anvils and hammers waking, to fashion out the plates and instruments of armed justice in defence of beleaguerd truth, than there be pens and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas...
Página 76 - ... cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well-enchanting skill of music; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney corner...
Página 114 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Página 236 - As I looked upon him he applied it to his lips, and began to play upon it. The sound of it was exceeding sweet, and wrought into a variety of tunes, that were inexpressibly melodious, and altogether different from anything I had ever heard. They put me in mind of those heavenly airs that are played to the departed souls of good men upon their first arrival in paradise, to wear out the impressions of the last agonies, and' qualify them for the pleasures of that happy place.
Página 76 - Now therein of all sciences (I speak still of human, and according to the human conceit), is our poet the monarch. For he doth not only show the way, but giveth so sweet a prospect into the way as will entice any man to enter into it...