The Poetry and Poets of Britain: From Chaucer to Tennyson ; with Biographical Sketches, and a Rapid View of the Characteristic Attributes of EachA. & C. Black, 1850 - 544 sidor |
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... thought , and meagre in expression , the English mind has reared a lite- rature inferior to none in depth of thinking , splendour of originality , and dignity and harmony of language : while no poetical literature is , as a whole ...
... thought , and meagre in expression , the English mind has reared a lite- rature inferior to none in depth of thinking , splendour of originality , and dignity and harmony of language : while no poetical literature is , as a whole ...
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... thought and ex- pression in writers ; and of simple suggestions and refer- ences respecting the geography , mythology , or history , alluded to in the text . The compiler has again to thank the authors and pro- prietors of copyright ...
... thought and ex- pression in writers ; and of simple suggestions and refer- ences respecting the geography , mythology , or history , alluded to in the text . The compiler has again to thank the authors and pro- prietors of copyright ...
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... thought and excellence of language , was a contemporary of Chaucer . He wrote poems in celebration of the victories of Edward III . - See Ritson's edition ( 1796 ) ; and Craik's " Literature and Learning of England . " 2 Chatterton's ...
... thought and excellence of language , was a contemporary of Chaucer . He wrote poems in celebration of the victories of Edward III . - See Ritson's edition ( 1796 ) ; and Craik's " Literature and Learning of England . " 2 Chatterton's ...
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... thought affected even our Protestant ances- tors , apparently with little notion of a moral stain : Lyndsay , an apostle of the Reformation in Scotland , full of serious and devout thinking , is yet one of the coarsest of the writers of ...
... thought affected even our Protestant ances- tors , apparently with little notion of a moral stain : Lyndsay , an apostle of the Reformation in Scotland , full of serious and devout thinking , is yet one of the coarsest of the writers of ...
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... thought and werk : He was also a learned man - a clerk.12 That Christé's gospel truély would preach ; His parishens devoutly would he teach . Benign he was and wonder1s diligent , And in adversity full patient : And such he was yproved ...
... thought and werk : He was also a learned man - a clerk.12 That Christé's gospel truély would preach ; His parishens devoutly would he teach . Benign he was and wonder1s diligent , And in adversity full patient : And such he was yproved ...
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Sida 114 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them ? — To die, — to sleep, — No more ; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, — 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, — to sleep ; — To sleep ! perchance to dream : — ay, there's the rub ; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come. When we have shuffled off this mortal...
Sida 522 - We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we...
Sida 103 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge ; And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deafning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes ? Canst thou, O partial sleep!
Sida 114 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Sida 103 - I have pass'da miserable night, So full of fearful dreams, of ugly sights, That, as I am a Christian faithful man, I would not spend another such a night, Though 'twere to buy a world of happy days : So full of dismal terror was the time.
Sida 186 - Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.
Sida 365 - THERE was a time when meadow, grove and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore ; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
Sida 174 - For, if such holy song Enwrap our fancy long, Time will run back and fetch the age of gold; And speckled Vanity Will sicken soon and die, And leprous Sin will melt from earthly mould...
Sida 242 - And unburied remain Inglorious on the plain : Give the vengeance due To the valiant crew ! Behold how they toss their torches on high, How they point to the Persian abodes And glittering temples of their hostile gods.
Sida 200 - Though hard and rare : thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp ; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.