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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... 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 written in French prose ; and also Robert of Gloucester , whose English rhymes ...
... 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 written in French prose ; and also Robert of Gloucester , whose English rhymes ...
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... merit . The first of these was JAMES I. King of Scotland , whose mind and its produc- tions , notwithstanding his being a native of that country , must be considered as of English growth . James had been taken prisoner in his boyhood by ...
... merit . The first of these was JAMES I. King of Scotland , whose mind and its produc- tions , notwithstanding his being a native of that country , must be considered as of English growth . James had been taken prisoner in his boyhood by ...
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... merit , notwithstanding the writer takes some liberties with the original . The language employed in it is nearly the same as that used by Eng- lish writers of the same period , and affords a striking example of the rage which had begun ...
... merit , notwithstanding the writer takes some liberties with the original . The language employed in it is nearly the same as that used by Eng- lish writers of the same period , and affords a striking example of the rage which had begun ...
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... merit . Another distinguished instructive writer of this age , was ROGER ASCHAм , pre- ceptor to Queen Elizabeth . He wrote an essay enti- tled Torophilus , to inculcate the propriety of mixing recreation with study , and a treatise ...
... merit . Another distinguished instructive writer of this age , was ROGER ASCHAм , pre- ceptor to Queen Elizabeth . He wrote an essay enti- tled Torophilus , to inculcate the propriety of mixing recreation with study , and a treatise ...
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... merit , though the power of writing them must have been an agreeable addition to his character as a soldier and a gentleman . Owing to his singular union of ac- * It was formerly supposed that memory lay in the hinder portion of the ...
... merit , though the power of writing them must have been an agreeable addition to his character as a soldier and a gentleman . Owing to his singular union of ac- * It was formerly supposed that memory lay in the hinder portion of the ...
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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.