A History of English Literature in a Series of Biographical SketchesNelson, 1900 - 582 oldal |
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... close to it , united by a line to mark close connection . By some such suggestive painting upon cotton cloth or aloe leaves did the frightened Mexicans , who dwelt on the coast of the great Gulf , convey to the inland towns the terrible ...
... close to it , united by a line to mark close connection . By some such suggestive painting upon cotton cloth or aloe leaves did the frightened Mexicans , who dwelt on the coast of the great Gulf , convey to the inland towns the terrible ...
23. oldal
... close his famous History of the Anglo - Saxon Church , written - like nearly all his works - in Latin . Its style is simple and easy , unsullied by the far - fetched figures which are such favourites with Aldhelm . From it we learn ...
... close his famous History of the Anglo - Saxon Church , written - like nearly all his works - in Latin . Its style is simple and easy , unsullied by the far - fetched figures which are such favourites with Aldhelm . From it we learn ...
40. oldal
... close of the twelfth century ( of which we have no evidence ) , they were pro- bably designed for the entertainment of the mere commonalty , to whom alone the French language was unknown . 3. In the thirteenth century were composed the ...
... close of the twelfth century ( of which we have no evidence ) , they were pro- bably designed for the entertainment of the mere commonalty , to whom alone the French language was unknown . 3. In the thirteenth century were composed the ...
47. oldal
... close of the same year he was elected Master of Balliol College . Four years later , the Primate appointed him to the Wardenship of Canterbury Hall , in the room of the deposed Wodehall . Mendicant friars at that time swarmed all over ...
... close of the same year he was elected Master of Balliol College . Four years later , the Primate appointed him to the Wardenship of Canterbury Hall , in the room of the deposed Wodehall . Mendicant friars at that time swarmed all over ...
55. oldal
... close by in the Abbey , where the dust of England's noblest dead is laid . Chaucer's chequered life was such as to wear off all the little roughnesses and conceits of his earlier character , and bring the fine grain of the manly nature ...
... close by in the Abbey , where the dust of England's noblest dead is laid . Chaucer's chequered life was such as to wear off all the little roughnesses and conceits of his earlier character , and bring the fine grain of the manly nature ...
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afterwards Alcuin Archbishop of Canterbury beauty became Bible born brilliant Bruges called Cambridge Canterbury Canterbury Tales century CHAPTER character Charles Chaucer chief chiefly Church College coloured court death died dramatic early Edinburgh Elizabeth England ENGLISH LITERATURE English Reformation Essays Faerie Queene fame father finest France GAVIN DOUGLAS genius heart Henry Henry VIII History honour Illustrative extract James John John Wycliffe Johnson King Lady land Latin learned Leicestershire letters literary lived London Lord Milton mind minstrels monk night noble novel Oxford picture play poem poet poet's poetic poetry poor prose published Puritan Queen Raleigh reign Richard ROGER ASCHAM romance round royal Saxon scenes Scottish Scriptorium Shakspere Shakspere's song SPECIMEN Spenser spent story style Supplementary List sweet Thomas thought took tragedy translation verse Westminster WILLIAM words writer written wrote young
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211. oldal - What matter where, if I be still the same And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater...
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.
324. oldal - How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
350. oldal - Seven 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 favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before.
378. oldal - I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
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.
241. oldal - Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages curst: For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay.
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.
149. oldal - Prick'd from the lazy finger of a maid ; Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut Made by the joiner squirrel or old grub, Time out o' mind the fairies' coachmakers. And in this state she gallops night by night Through lovers...
189. oldal - ... 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 libration and frequent weighing of his wings, till the little creature was forced to sit down and pant, and stay till the storm was over ; and then it made a prosperous flight, and did rise and sing, as if it had learned music and motion from an angel, as he passed sometimes through the air, about his ministries here below....