History of the English Language and LiteratureE. Hopkins, 1837 - 328 páginas |
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... described all kinds of abstract ideas under the semblance of things real and tangible . Petrarch , on the other hand , wrote amatory poetry with wonderful delicacy . There was another Italian writer , Boccaccio , who flourished a little ...
... described all kinds of abstract ideas under the semblance of things real and tangible . Petrarch , on the other hand , wrote amatory poetry with wonderful delicacy . There was another Italian writer , Boccaccio , who flourished a little ...
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... described in the striking verses quoted below . † * One of his fables is the common story of the Town Mouse and Country Mouse ; and in the moral with which he concludes it , occurs the following verse , which will convey an idea of his ...
... described in the striking verses quoted below . † * One of his fables is the common story of the Town Mouse and Country Mouse ; and in the moral with which he concludes it , occurs the following verse , which will convey an idea of his ...
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... described , lessen their value , and give a tediousness to the whole poem . Perhaps it is fortunate for the Faery Queen , that one half of it was lost ; and it might have even been improved in value by the want of a half of that which ...
... described , lessen their value , and give a tediousness to the whole poem . Perhaps it is fortunate for the Faery Queen , that one half of it was lost ; and it might have even been improved in value by the want of a half of that which ...
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... described , not to speak of the precedents afforded by Greece and Rome . Of comedy , which was an improvement upon the interludes , and may be more remotely traced in the ludicrous parts of the moral plays , the earliest specimen that ...
... described , not to speak of the precedents afforded by Greece and Rome . Of comedy , which was an improvement upon the interludes , and may be more remotely traced in the ludicrous parts of the moral plays , the earliest specimen that ...
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... described it , only when combined with moral excellence , which , though apt to be favoured and improved by knowledge , is not always found in its com- pany . One of the most entertaining prose writers of this age , was ROBERT BURTON ...
... described it , only when combined with moral excellence , which , though apt to be favoured and improved by knowledge , is not always found in its com- pany . One of the most entertaining prose writers of this age , was ROBERT BURTON ...
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History of the English Language and Literature [by Robert Chambers] Robert Chambers Vista completa - 1857 |
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Página 139 - 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 31 - 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 140 - 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 206 - 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...
Página 36 - You haste away so soon; As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attain'd his noon. Stay, stay Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having pray'd together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring ; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away Like to the Summer's rain ; Or as the pearls of morning's dew, Ne'er to be found again.
Página 107 - 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 115 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Página 108 - For others good, or melt at others woe. What can atone (oh ever-injur'd shade !) Thy fate unpity'd, and thy rites unpaid ? No friend's complaint, no kind domestic tear Pleas'd thy pale ghost, or grac'd thy mournful bier : By foreign hands thy dying eyes were clos'd, By foreign hands thy decent limbs compos'd, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorn'd, By strangers honour'd, and by strangers mourn'd! What tho' no friends in sable weeds appear.
Página 82 - 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 77 - He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a lord may be an owl ; A calf an alderman, a goose a justice, And rooks committee-men and trustees.