A Book of English Literature, Volumen 1Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin Macmillan, 1916 - 889 páginas |
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... Muse ! most learned dame , Fayre ympe of Phoebus and his aged bryde , The nourse of time and everlasting fame , That warlike handes ennoblest with im- mortall name ; VI 45 O gently come into my feeble brest ; Come gently , but not with ...
... Muse ! most learned dame , Fayre ympe of Phoebus and his aged bryde , The nourse of time and everlasting fame , That warlike handes ennoblest with im- mortall name ; VI 45 O gently come into my feeble brest ; Come gently , but not with ...
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... armes 155 Thy country may be freed from forraine harmes ; And great Elisaes glorious name may ring Through al the world , fil'd with thy wide alarmes , Which some brave Muse may sing To ages following , 68 THE ELIZABETHAN AGE.
... armes 155 Thy country may be freed from forraine harmes ; And great Elisaes glorious name may ring Through al the world , fil'd with thy wide alarmes , Which some brave Muse may sing To ages following , 68 THE ELIZABETHAN AGE.
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Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin. Which some brave Muse may sing To ages following , 160 Upon the brydale day , which is not long : Sweete Themmes , runne softly , till I end my song . From those high towers this noble lord ...
Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin. Which some brave Muse may sing To ages following , 160 Upon the brydale day , which is not long : Sweete Themmes , runne softly , till I end my song . From those high towers this noble lord ...
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... Muse to me , " look in thy heart , and write ! " XXXI With how sad steps , O Moon , thou climb'st the skies ! How silently , and with how wan a face ! What , may it be that even in heavenly place That busy archer his sharp arrows tries ...
... Muse to me , " look in thy heart , and write ! " XXXI With how sad steps , O Moon , thou climb'st the skies ! How silently , and with how wan a face ! What , may it be that even in heavenly place That busy archer his sharp arrows tries ...
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... Muses ; 26 For if I thought my judgment were of years , I should commit2 thee surely with thy peers , And tell how far ... muse can praise too much . ' Tis true , and all men's suffrage . But these ways 5 Were not the paths I meant unto ...
... Muses ; 26 For if I thought my judgment were of years , I should commit2 thee surely with thy peers , And tell how far ... muse can praise too much . ' Tis true , and all men's suffrage . But these ways 5 Were not the paths I meant unto ...
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A Book of English Literature, Selected and Ed Franklyn Bliss Snyder,Robert Grant Martin Vista completa - 1916 |
A Book of English Literature, Selected and Ed Franklyn Bliss Snyder,Robert Grant Martin Vista completa - 1916 |
A Book of English Literature, Selected and Ed Franklyn Bliss Snyder,Robert Grant Martin Vista completa - 1916 |
Términos y frases comunes
Antistrophe arms auld lang syne Bargrave beauty Cæsar called Church Church of England crown dark dear death delight doth earth English eyes Faerie Queene fair fame fate fear fire flowers frae give grace hand happy hath head hear heard heart Heaven Hell holy honor hope JAMES MACPHERSON Johnson Julius Cæsar king king Arthur labor land learned light live look Lord Lycidas mind morning Muse nature never night noble nymph o'er once pleasure poetry poets praise prince Queen rest round sing Sir Bedivere Sir Lucan smile song soul spirit sweet sylphs tears tell thee things thou thought tion trout truth unto Veal verse virtue wind wings wonder words wyfe wyllowe ynne youth ΙΟ
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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 73 - When, in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries And look upon myself and curse my fate. Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd, Desiring this man's art and that man's scope.
Página 88 - A lily of a day Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures life may perfect be.
Página 293 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labors, 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 293 - years, my lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favor «» Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before.
Página 185 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple. Who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter ? Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing.
Página 114 - 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.
Página 181 - I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and, being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys" a good book kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the Earth ; but a good book is the precious life-blood of...
Página 252 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb-stone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow...
Página 73 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste: Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow, For precious friends hid in death's dateless night...