A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged from Sir John Mandeville to William Cowper ...Biddle, 1848 - 776 pages |
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... ENGLISH LITERATURE , CHRONOLOGICALLY ARRANGED , FROM SIR JOHN MANDEVILLE TO WILLIAM COWPER . CONSISTING OF BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF THE AUTHORS , SELECTIONS FROM THEIR WORKS , WITH NOTES , EXPLANATORY , ILLUSTRATIVE , AND DIRECTING TO ...
... ENGLISH LITERATURE , CHRONOLOGICALLY ARRANGED , FROM SIR JOHN MANDEVILLE TO WILLIAM COWPER . CONSISTING OF BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF THE AUTHORS , SELECTIONS FROM THEIR WORKS , WITH NOTES , EXPLANATORY , ILLUSTRATIVE , AND DIRECTING TO ...
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... English language , with short accounts of the authors and of their works , and such notes as would direct the reader to the best editions of the writers , to the various criticisms upon them , and to other books upon kindred subjects ...
... English language , with short accounts of the authors and of their works , and such notes as would direct the reader to the best editions of the writers , to the various criticisms upon them , and to other books upon kindred subjects ...
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... from other poets previously given , will fully substantiate the re- mark of Sir Egerton Brydges , that our best poets will be found to have equally excelled in prose . Fourth . Many more specimens of the English female mind 4 PREFACE .
... from other poets previously given , will fully substantiate the re- mark of Sir Egerton Brydges , that our best poets will be found to have equally excelled in prose . Fourth . Many more specimens of the English female mind 4 PREFACE .
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... English female mind will be found in this edition . The reader , however , must bear in mind that the most dis . tinguished female writers of England have been during the present century , into which it was not my purpose to enter ...
... English female mind will be found in this edition . The reader , however , must bear in mind that the most dis . tinguished female writers of England have been during the present century , into which it was not my purpose to enter ...
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... ENGLISH MINSTRELSY . Account of the Minstrels .. Sir Patrick Spens The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd 150 A Vision upon the Faerie Queene .. His last Letter to his Wife SAMUEL DANIEL The Soul's Errand .. 151 151 LADY ELIZABETH CAREY ...
... ENGLISH MINSTRELSY . Account of the Minstrels .. Sir Patrick Spens The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd 150 A Vision upon the Faerie Queene .. His last Letter to his Wife SAMUEL DANIEL The Soul's Errand .. 151 151 LADY ELIZABETH CAREY ...
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Page 638 - Two things have I required of thee ; deny me them not before I die. Remove far from me vanity and lies ; give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me : lest I be full and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord ? or lest I be poor and steal, and take the name- of my God in vain.
Page 596 - THE Curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds : Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient...
Page 352 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Page 752 - I heard the bell tolled on thy burial day, I saw the hearse, that bore thee, slow, away, And turning from my nursery window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu ! But was it such ? — It was. — Where thou art gone, Adieus and farewells are a sound unknown. May I but meet thee on that peaceful shore, The parting word shall pass my lips no more ! Thy maidens, grieved themselves at my concern, Oft gave me promise of thy quick return.
Page 161 - 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 243 - Closed o'er the head of your loved Lycidas? For neither were ye playing on the steep, Where your old bards, the famous Druids, lie, Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream: 55 Ay me, I fondly dream! Had ye been there: for what could that have done?
Page 597 - The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...
Page 649 - 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?
Page 137 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries ; but thou hast forc'd me Out of thy honest truth to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes : and thus far hear me, Cromwell $ And,— when I am forgotten, as I shall be ; And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, — say, I taught thee...
Page 394 - 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 their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.