A History of English Literature, in a Series of Biographical SketchesT. Nelson and Sons, 1862 - 538 oldal |
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... THE THEATRES IN 1648 A.D. 1. The Plays and Players of Old Eng- land .... 101 IL . Roger Ascham ..................... .. 108 VIII . Our English Bible ... ....... ..................... . IX . William Shakspere ...... .................. .
... THE THEATRES IN 1648 A.D. 1. The Plays and Players of Old Eng- land .... 101 IL . Roger Ascham ..................... .. 108 VIII . Our English Bible ... ....... ..................... . IX . William Shakspere ...... .................. .
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... land and sea , slays a monster , Grendel , but is himself slain in an attack upon a huge dragon . It is a striking picture of dim old Gothic days , much heightened in its effect by the minuteness of the descriptive lines . As we read ...
... land and sea , slays a monster , Grendel , but is himself slain in an attack upon a huge dragon . It is a striking picture of dim old Gothic days , much heightened in its effect by the minuteness of the descriptive lines . As we read ...
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... land so sorely , every reader of our history knows . Here it is not as the warrior , victorious at Ethandune and on the banks of the Lea , that we must view this greatest of the Anglo - Saxons ; but as the peaceful man of letters ...
... land so sorely , every reader of our history knows . Here it is not as the warrior , victorious at Ethandune and on the banks of the Lea , that we must view this greatest of the Anglo - Saxons ; but as the peaceful man of letters ...
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... land . His chief teacher was an Irish monk named Meildulf , who lived a hermit life under the shade of the great oak trees in north - eastern Wilt- shire . When the followers of Meildulf were formed into a mon- astery bearing its ...
... land . His chief teacher was an Irish monk named Meildulf , who lived a hermit life under the shade of the great oak trees in north - eastern Wilt- shire . When the followers of Meildulf were formed into a mon- astery bearing its ...
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... land , sang ballads of love and war ; the monk sat in his dim - lit cell penning tomes of unreadable theology , very useless logic , or dry but valuable history , and varying these sterner labours with the graceful task of copying and ...
... land , sang ballads of love and war ; the monk sat in his dim - lit cell penning tomes of unreadable theology , very useless logic , or dry but valuable history , and varying these sterner labours with the graceful task of copying and ...
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Addison afterwards amid Anglo-Saxon appeared Archbishop of Canterbury beauty became Bible born brilliant called Cambridge CHAPTER Charles chief chiefly Church College coloured court death died drama Dublin Earl early Edinburgh Edinburgh Review England English English poetry Essays Faerie Queene fame father finest France genius gentle heart Henry History honour Illustrative extract James John John Milton King Lady land Latin letters literary literature lived London Lord Milton mind minstrels night noble novel novelist Oxford paper Paradise Lost picture play poem poet poet's poetic poetry poor prose published Puritan Queen reign ROGER ASCHAM romance round royal Saxon scene Scotland Scottish Shakspere song SPECIMEN spent story style Supplementary List sweet Tatler Thomas Thomas Fuller thought took tragedy translation Trinity College University of Edinburgh verse WILLIAM wonderful words writer written wrote young
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493. oldal - Kent. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
149. oldal - Made by the joiner squirrel, or old grub, Time out of mind the fairies' coach-makers. And in this state she gallops night by night Through lovers...
148. oldal - Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses, Or else worth all the rest; I see thee still, And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood, Which was not so before. There's no such thing: It is the bloody business which informs Thus to mine eyes.
392. oldal - 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.
209. oldal - 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.
211. oldal - 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...
378. oldal - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
391. oldal - And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee and arbiter of war,— These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride or spoils of Trafalgar.
363. oldal - 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.
210. oldal - Is this the region, this the soil, the clime," Said then the lost Archangel, "this the seat That we must change for Heaven ? this mournful gloom For that celestial light? Be...