Historical Sketches of English and American Literature: Embracing an Account of the Principal Productions of the Most Distinguished Authors in Great Britain and the United States, from the Earliest to the Present Period ...Edward Hopkins, 1845 - 328 páginas |
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... composition in the Saxon tongue is a fragment by Cadmon , a monk of Whitby , who wrote religious poetry in a very sublime strain , in the eighth century , and who , for want of learning , was obliged to employ his own language . King ...
... composition in the Saxon tongue is a fragment by Cadmon , a monk of Whitby , who wrote religious poetry in a very sublime strain , in the eighth century , and who , for want of learning , was obliged to employ his own language . King ...
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... composition of rhyming chronicles , which , however , possessed very little merit , either as poems or as histories . * Among these were Layamon , who trans- lated Wace , his predecessor , in the language of the time , Wace having ...
... composition of rhyming chronicles , which , however , possessed very little merit , either as poems or as histories . * Among these were Layamon , who trans- lated Wace , his predecessor , in the language of the time , Wace having ...
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... compositions in Latin . * The minstrel - poems , though in many respects absurd , were improvements upon the dull chronicles of the pre- ceding age . While they gave a picture of past events scarcely less true , they were more graceful ...
... compositions in Latin . * The minstrel - poems , though in many respects absurd , were improvements upon the dull chronicles of the pre- ceding age . While they gave a picture of past events scarcely less true , they were more graceful ...
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... composition now beginning to be antiquated in England , he partook nevertheless of the improved style which Chaucer had adopted , and was capable of producing poems of the same general nature . His apostrophe to freedom , which occurs ...
... composition now beginning to be antiquated in England , he partook nevertheless of the improved style which Chaucer had adopted , and was capable of producing poems of the same general nature . His apostrophe to freedom , which occurs ...
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... compositions , which had also for some time gone out of fashion in the southern part of the island . Among their ... composition . The last poem of this kind seems to have been that entitled the Adventures of Sir William Wallace ...
... compositions , which had also for some time gone out of fashion in the southern part of the island . Among their ... composition . The last poem of this kind seems to have been that entitled the Adventures of Sir William Wallace ...
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Página 211 - 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.
Página 143 - 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.
Página 35 - 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.
Página 144 - 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.
Página 210 - 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, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own. When, for a moment, like a drop of rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown.
Página 86 - 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.
Página 111 - 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...
Página 111 - The berries crackle, and the mill turns round; On shining altars of Japan they raise The silver lamp; the fiery spirits blaze: From silver spouts the grateful liquors glide, While China's earth receives the smoking tide: At once they gratify their scent and taste, And frequent cups prolong the rich repast.
Página 111 - The little engine on his fingers' ends; This just behind Belinda's neck he spread, As o'er the fragrant steams she bends her head. Swift to the lock a thousand sprites repair...
Página 211 - And shake him from thee ; the vile strength he wields For earth's destruction, thou dost all despise, Spurning him from thy bosom to the skies. And send'st him, shivering, in thy playful spray, And howling, to his gods, where haply lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth : there let him lay.