A History of English Literature in a Series of Biographical SketchesT. Nelson & Sons, 1893 - 550 oldal |
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... Henry Howard , Earl of Surrey .. VI . Other Writers of the Second Era .. 90 ... 8885 94 THIRD ERA . FROM THE ACCESSION OF ELIZABETH IN 1558 A.D. TO THE SHUTTING OF THE THEATRES IN 1648 A.D. I. The Plays and Players of Old Eng- land ...
... Henry Howard , Earl of Surrey .. VI . Other Writers of the Second Era .. 90 ... 8885 94 THIRD ERA . FROM THE ACCESSION OF ELIZABETH IN 1558 A.D. TO THE SHUTTING OF THE THEATRES IN 1648 A.D. I. The Plays and Players of Old Eng- land ...
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... Henry Howard , Earl of Surrey VI . Other Writers of the Second Era .. 90 94 THIRD ERA . FROM THE ACCESSION OF ELIZABETH IN 1558 A.D. TO THE SHUTTING OF THE THEATRES IN 1648 A.D. I. The Plays and Players of Old Eng- VIII . Our English ...
... Henry Howard , Earl of Surrey VI . Other Writers of the Second Era .. 90 94 THIRD ERA . FROM THE ACCESSION OF ELIZABETH IN 1558 A.D. TO THE SHUTTING OF THE THEATRES IN 1648 A.D. I. The Plays and Players of Old Eng- VIII . Our English ...
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... Henry Fielding ........ V. Tobias Smollett ..... 311 X. Samuel Johnson ..... 343 316 XI . Other Writers of the Seventh Era 351 EIGHTH ERA . FROM THE DEATH OF JOHNSON IN 1784 A.D. TO THE DEATH OF SCOTT IN 1832 A.D. I. Some Notes on ...
... Henry Fielding ........ V. Tobias Smollett ..... 311 X. Samuel Johnson ..... 343 316 XI . Other Writers of the Seventh Era 351 EIGHTH ERA . FROM THE DEATH OF JOHNSON IN 1784 A.D. TO THE DEATH OF SCOTT IN 1832 A.D. I. Some Notes on ...
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... Henry II . The central picture of this poem is the minute account of the battle of Has- tings . Wace , who became Canon of Bayeux on the recommendation of Henry II . , is thought to have died in England about 1184 . There are two among ...
... Henry II . The central picture of this poem is the minute account of the battle of Has- tings . Wace , who became Canon of Bayeux on the recommendation of Henry II . , is thought to have died in England about 1184 . There are two among ...
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... Henry II . , numbers of short verses are scattered which rhyme together pretty exactly . There are , besides , some eight - syllable lines in imitation of Wace's metre . But , on BIRTH OF OUR METRICAL ROMANCE . 39 the whole ,
... Henry II . , numbers of short verses are scattered which rhyme together pretty exactly . There are , besides , some eight - syllable lines in imitation of Wace's metre . But , on BIRTH OF OUR METRICAL ROMANCE . 39 the whole ,
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296. oldal - twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.
96. 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.
332. oldal - Ye Ice-falls! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge!
143. 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.
145. 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...
290. 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 forever.
295. oldal - Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts: — not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow — Such as creation's dawn beheld thou rollest now.
97. 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 of mind the fairies' coach-makers. And in this state she gallops night by night Through lovers...
262. oldal - In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs — and God has given my share — I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose...
145. 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...