English Lands, Letters and Kings, 1. kötetC. Scribner's Sons, 1889 |
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15. oldal
... mention that recent critics have questioned if all the verse usually attributed to Cædmon was really written by him : nay , there have been queries - if the pict ure of Satan itself was not the work of another hand . An analysis of the ...
... mention that recent critics have questioned if all the verse usually attributed to Cædmon was really written by him : nay , there have been queries - if the pict ure of Satan itself was not the work of another hand . An analysis of the ...
24. oldal
... tradition is subject of crude mention in the Polyolbion of DRAYTON ; I also refer the reader to the charming Leofric and Godiva of LANDOR . thought the old incidents to which their words re- late 24 LANDS , LETTERS , & KINGS .
... tradition is subject of crude mention in the Polyolbion of DRAYTON ; I also refer the reader to the charming Leofric and Godiva of LANDOR . thought the old incidents to which their words re- late 24 LANDS , LETTERS , & KINGS .
39. oldal
... mention in anything pretending to be history * until Geoffrey of Monmouth's day . There is nothing of them in the Saxon Chronicle : nothing of them in Beda : King Alfred never mentions King Arthur . - - But was there ever a King Arthur ...
... mention in anything pretending to be history * until Geoffrey of Monmouth's day . There is nothing of them in the Saxon Chronicle : nothing of them in Beda : King Alfred never mentions King Arthur . - - But was there ever a King Arthur ...
57. oldal
... mention as the first serious attempt at an English - written history - others noticed already being either merely bald chronicles , or in scholastic Latin , or in French met- ric form . I give you a little taste of his wooden verse ...
... mention as the first serious attempt at an English - written history - others noticed already being either merely bald chronicles , or in scholastic Latin , or in French met- ric form . I give you a little taste of his wooden verse ...
58. oldal
... mention of homely , every - day unimportant things . They cannot tell lies , without fear of detection , on their own ground : and so they get that darlingest quality of all his- tory - the simple truth . But if a man wanders ...
... mention of homely , every - day unimportant things . They cannot tell lies , without fear of detection , on their own ground : and so they get that darlingest quality of all his- tory - the simple truth . But if a man wanders ...
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41. oldal - Then saw they how there hove a dusky barge, Dark as a funeral scarf from stem to stern, Beneath them; and descending they were ware That all the decks were dense with stately forms Black-stoled, black-hooded, like a dream - by these...
133. oldal - Should I turn upon the true prince ? Why, thou knowest, I am as valiant as Hercules: but beware instinct; the lion will not touch the true prince.
268. oldal - And I will make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies, A cap of flowers, and a kirtle Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle...
173. oldal - This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride At length broke under me and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
157. oldal - To drive the deer with hound and horn Earl Percy took his way ; The child may rue that is unborn The hunting of that day.
226. oldal - And blesseth her with his two happy hands, How the red roses flush up in her cheeks, And the pure snow with goodly vermeil stain, Like crimson dyed in grain, That even th...
190. oldal - I cannot eat but little meat, My stomach is not good ; But sure I think, that I can drink With him that wears a hood...
259. oldal - GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross...
300. oldal - I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, Would he had blotted a thousand.
304. oldal - I myself thought good to imitate the Italian fashion by this forked cutting of meate, not only while I was in Italy, but also in Germany, and oftentimes in England since I came home...