History of the English Language and LiteratureE. Hopkins, 1837 - 328 páginas |
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... volume . The difficulty of making a selection out of more than two thousand living writers , for such is the conjectured number in the United States , and out of , we know not how many writers that are deceased , was obvious to the ...
... volume . The difficulty of making a selection out of more than two thousand living writers , for such is the conjectured number in the United States , and out of , we know not how many writers that are deceased , was obvious to the ...
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... volume , ' however humble in object , or limited in extent , is the only History of English Literature which has as yet been given to the world , ' and was therefore ' necessarily the result of considerable labour . ' In the American ...
... volume , ' however humble in object , or limited in extent , is the only History of English Literature which has as yet been given to the world , ' and was therefore ' necessarily the result of considerable labour . ' In the American ...
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... , and in connexion with names , throughout the present volume , refer to the birth and death of the individuals to whose names they are attached . elaborate allegorical poem , designed to celebrate the principle virtues.
... , and in connexion with names , throughout the present volume , refer to the birth and death of the individuals to whose names they are attached . elaborate allegorical poem , designed to celebrate the principle virtues.
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... volumes of this kind were pub- lished in the latter part of the reign of Elizabeth , and contain some lyrical poetry of the greatest merit , with- out any author's name . As a specimen of one of the forms of composition , and one of the ...
... volumes of this kind were pub- lished in the latter part of the reign of Elizabeth , and contain some lyrical poetry of the greatest merit , with- out any author's name . As a specimen of one of the forms of composition , and one of the ...
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... volume of the rules of poetry , along with illustrative specimens ; and in 1591 , produced another series of his exercises in this art . It was in the Latin tongue , however , that the highest Scot- tish genius of this age was pleased ...
... volume of the rules of poetry , along with illustrative specimens ; and in 1591 , produced another series of his exercises in this art . It was in the Latin tongue , however , that the highest Scot- tish genius of this age was pleased ...
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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.