Cyclopædia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from the Earliest to the Present Time, Connected by a Critical and Biographical History ...Robert Chambers Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1847 |
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... true good man there was there of religion , Pious and poor - the parson of a town . But rich he was in holy thought and work ; And thereto a right learned man ; a clerk That Christ's pure gospel would sincerely preach , And his ...
... true good man there was there of religion , Pious and poor - the parson of a town . But rich he was in holy thought and work ; And thereto a right learned man ; a clerk That Christ's pure gospel would sincerely preach , And his ...
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... true , and full of alms - deed , as Jesu was , in whom they trow ; but they ben all the contrary , and ever inclined to the evil , and to don evil . And they ben 80 covetous , that for a little silver they sellen ' eir daughters , ' eir ...
... true , and full of alms - deed , as Jesu was , in whom they trow ; but they ben all the contrary , and ever inclined to the evil , and to don evil . And they ben 80 covetous , that for a little silver they sellen ' eir daughters , ' eir ...
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... true poetry , though there was no lack of obscure versifiers . It is remarkable , that this period produced in Scotland a race of genuine poets , who , in the words of Mr Warton , ' displayed a degree of sentiment and spirit , a command ...
... true poetry , though there was no lack of obscure versifiers . It is remarkable , that this period produced in Scotland a race of genuine poets , who , in the words of Mr Warton , ' displayed a degree of sentiment and spirit , a command ...
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... true love or none ? He is most true and stedfast paramour , And love is lost but upon him alone . The Merle said , Why put God so great beauty In ladies , with sic womanly having , But gif he would that they suld lovit be ? Would ...
... true love or none ? He is most true and stedfast paramour , And love is lost but upon him alone . The Merle said , Why put God so great beauty In ladies , with sic womanly having , But gif he would that they suld lovit be ? Would ...
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... true poetry . At length a worthy successor of those poets appeared in Thomas Howard , eldest son of the Duke of Norfolk , and usually denominated the EARL OF SURREY . This nobleman was born in 1516. He was educated at Windsor , in ...
... true poetry . At length a worthy successor of those poets appeared in Thomas Howard , eldest son of the Duke of Norfolk , and usually denominated the EARL OF SURREY . This nobleman was born in 1516. He was educated at Windsor , in ...
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Page 188 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players : They have their exits and their entrances ; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Page 188 - Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, — The seasons' difference : as the icy fang And churlish chiding of the winter's wind, Which when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile and say, This is no flattery : these are counsellors That feelingly persuade me what I am.
Page 399 - 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.
Page 328 - Go, lovely rose, Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died.
Page 187 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice...
Page 105 - This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall : Lord of himself, though not of lands, And, having nothing, yet hath all.
Page 332 - The Oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving : No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
Page 398 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite ; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that eternal spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 184 - The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not mov'd with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils ; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus : Let no such man be trusted.
Page 185 - Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest — For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men — Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral. He was my friend, faithful and just to me: But Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man.