A History of English Literature: In a Series of Biographical SketchesNelson, 1871 - 549 oldal |
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... afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury . Born in 925 , near Glastonbury in Somersetshire , and educated there in the Irish school , he became a monk at an early age . His advances in learning were surprisingly rapid , in spite of the ...
... afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury . Born in 925 , near Glastonbury in Somersetshire , and educated there in the Irish school , he became a monk at an early age . His advances in learning were surprisingly rapid , in spite of the ...
37. oldal
... afterwards chiefly to the musician . The song was dropped , and so were the gestures . The Poet took up the song ; the Juggler and Tumbler took up the bodily movements ; while the Minstrel remained a player of music only . Had Alfred ...
... afterwards chiefly to the musician . The song was dropped , and so were the gestures . The Poet took up the song ; the Juggler and Tumbler took up the bodily movements ; while the Minstrel remained a player of music only . Had Alfred ...
44. oldal
... afterwards translated by himself into French , and thence into English . Mandeville's great fault as a writer was , that he loaded his pages with the wildest and most absurd stories , picked up by the way , and admitted upon the ...
... afterwards translated by himself into French , and thence into English . Mandeville's great fault as a writer was , that he loaded his pages with the wildest and most absurd stories , picked up by the way , and admitted upon the ...
54. oldal
... afterwards embodied in the Clerkes Tale . Then came other royal grants , —a pitcher of wine daily for life the office of Comptroller of Customs of wool , wine , & c . , in the Port of London - the wardship of a rich heir , for three ...
... afterwards embodied in the Clerkes Tale . Then came other royal grants , —a pitcher of wine daily for life the office of Comptroller of Customs of wool , wine , & c . , in the Port of London - the wardship of a rich heir , for three ...
88. oldal
... afterwards utterly repealed —he underwent at Oxford that baptism of fire which has purified his memory from every stain . Cranmer's great fault was a want of decision and firmness . A.D. It There is a book , which ranks with our Bible ...
... afterwards utterly repealed —he underwent at Oxford that baptism of fire which has purified his memory from every stain . Cranmer's great fault was a want of decision and firmness . A.D. It There is a book , which ranks with our Bible ...
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210. 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, 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 - Hail, horrors ! hail, Infernal world ! and thou, profoundest Hell, Receive thy new possessor ! one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
212. oldal - No sooner had the Almighty ceased but — all The multitude of Angels, with a shout Loud as from numbers without number, sweet As from blest voices, uttering joy — Heaven rung With jubilee, and loud hosannas filled The eternal regions.
379. 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.
243. oldal - That every man with him was God or devil. In squandering wealth was his peculiar art; Nothing went unrewarded but desert. Beggared by fools, whom still he found too late ; He had his jest, and they had his estate.
190. oldal - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds : but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant — descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the...
243. oldal - He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
227. oldal - I' th' middle of his speech, or cough, H' had hard words ready to show why, And tell what rules he did it by ; Else, when with greatest art he spoke, You'd think he talked like other folk.
447. oldal - Who gave you your invulnerable life, Your strength, your speed, your fury, and your joy, Unceasing thunder and eternal foam ? And who commanded — and the silence came — Here let the billows stiffen, and have rest...
149. oldal - Yet his real power is not shown in the splendour of particular passages, but by the progress of his fable and the tenor of his dialogue ; and he that tries to recommend him by select quotations will succeed like the pedant in Hierocles, who, when he offered his house to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen.