A History of English Literature in a Series of Biographical SketchesT. Nelson and sons, 1902 - 582 ページ |
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... literary jealousy of the Egyptians stopped the supply of papyrus , caused his subjects to write on sheep - skins , hence called Pergamena or parchment . Vellum , a finer material , is prepared calf - skin . Besides these , a common form ...
... literary jealousy of the Egyptians stopped the supply of papyrus , caused his subjects to write on sheep - skins , hence called Pergamena or parchment . Vellum , a finer material , is prepared calf - skin . Besides these , a common form ...
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... literary toil . Both sword and pen were familiar tools in that cunning right hand . Alfred the Great was born in 848 , at Wantage in Berkshire . Two visits to Rome in his early days gave him a wider range of observation and thought than ...
... literary toil . Both sword and pen were familiar tools in that cunning right hand . Alfred the Great was born in 848 , at Wantage in Berkshire . Two visits to Rome in his early days gave him a wider range of observation and thought than ...
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... literary history of this time was the introduction into England of the Norman Romance . With Chivalry , from which it was inseparable , and from whose stirring life it took all its colours , the Romance rose and fell . From the ...
... literary history of this time was the introduction into England of the Norman Romance . With Chivalry , from which it was inseparable , and from whose stirring life it took all its colours , the Romance rose and fell . From the ...
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... literary talent of the time was spent ; for the one tongue was the speech of courtiers , and the other that of church- men . The English , thoroughly out of fashion , was left in its fall to the serfs and boors of the land . But a day ...
... literary talent of the time was spent ; for the one tongue was the speech of courtiers , and the other that of church- men . The English , thoroughly out of fashion , was left in its fall to the serfs and boors of the land . But a day ...
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... literary career . Dr. Craik thus sums up the leading facts in the history of English metrical romance : — 1. At least the first examples of it were translations from the French . 2. If any such were produced so early as before the close ...
... literary career . Dr. Craik thus sums up the leading facts in the history of English metrical romance : — 1. At least the first examples of it were translations from the French . 2. If any such were produced so early as before the close ...
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392 ページ - And I have loved thee, Ocean ! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward : from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers — they to me Were a delight : and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.
209 ページ - The other Shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb ; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either — black it stood as Night, 670 Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart : what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
149 ページ - O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife ; and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
324 ページ - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care ; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
378 ページ - I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
392 ページ - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed, in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime, The image of Eternity, the throne Of the invisible,— even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
92 ページ - MAIDEN ! with the meek, brown eyes, In whose orbs a shadow lies Like the dusk in evening skies ! Thou whose locks outshine the sun, Golden tresses, wreathed in one, As the braided streamlets run ! Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet...
211 ページ - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence : Here we may reign secure, and, in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell : Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven...
363 ページ - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
211 ページ - No sooner had the Almighty ceased but — all The multitude of Angels, with a shout Loud as from numbers without number, sweet As from blest voices, uttering joy — Heaven rung With jubilee, and loud hosannas filled The eternal regions.