A Book of English Literature, Selected and Ed, Volume 1Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin Macmillan, 1916 - 889 pages |
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... soon . GOD . Noah , to me thou art full able , 5 And thy sacrifice acceptable , For I have found thee true and stable ; 275 On thee must I now mind . 315 Curse earth will I no more For man's sin that grieves me sore , For of youth man ...
... soon . GOD . Noah , to me thou art full able , 5 And thy sacrifice acceptable , For I have found thee true and stable ; 275 On thee must I now mind . 315 Curse earth will I no more For man's sin that grieves me sore , For of youth man ...
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... soon as he might he came again unto the king , and said he had been at the water , and had thrown the sword into the water . What sawest thou there ? said the king . Sir , he said , I saw nothing but waves [ 50 and winds . That is ...
... soon as he might he came again unto the king , and said he had been at the water , and had thrown the sword into the water . What sawest thou there ? said the king . Sir , he said , I saw nothing but waves [ 50 and winds . That is ...
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... soon as Sir Bedi- [ 120 vere had lost the sight of the barge , he wept and wailed , and so took the forest , and so he went all that night , and in the morning he was ware betwixt two holts hoar , of a chapel and an hermitage . CHAPTER ...
... soon as Sir Bedi- [ 120 vere had lost the sight of the barge , he wept and wailed , and so took the forest , and so he went all that night , and in the morning he was ware betwixt two holts hoar , of a chapel and an hermitage . CHAPTER ...
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... soon do fall ; I see that those which are aloft Mishap doth threaten most of all ; They get with toil , they keep with fear : Such cares my mind could never bear . Content to live , this is my stay ; I seek no more than may suffice ; I ...
... soon do fall ; I see that those which are aloft Mishap doth threaten most of all ; They get with toil , they keep with fear : Such cares my mind could never bear . Content to live , this is my stay ; I seek no more than may suffice ; I ...
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... soon , And want a head to dine next noon , Just at the stroke , when my veins start and spread , Set on my soul an everlasting head ! 55 Then am I ready , like a palmer fit , To tread those blest paths , which before I writ . THE ...
... soon , And want a head to dine next noon , Just at the stroke , when my veins start and spread , Set on my soul an everlasting head ! 55 Then am I ready , like a palmer fit , To tread those blest paths , which before I writ . THE ...
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Page 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. Some books also may be read by deputy and extracts made of them by others, but that would be only in the less important arguments and the meaner sort of books, else distilled books are like common distilled waters, flashy things.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 114 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Page 293 - I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a Patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
Page 293 - The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love and found him a native of the rocks. Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help ? 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.
Page 74 - 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. O, if, I say, you look upon this verse When I perhaps compounded am with clay, Do not so much as my poor name rehearse, But let your love even with my life...
Page 458 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more, From these our interviews, in which I steal From all I may be, or have been before, To mingle with the Universe, and feel What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal.
Page 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; when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with...