A Manual of English Literature: A Text Book for Schools and CollegesEldredge & Brother, 1872 - 636 pages |
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... wrote only half a century previous . It is in the same kind of verse , the eight - syllable iambic , rhyming in couplets . In fire and spirit , however , it is far superior to anything in the old romances and troubadours . Barbour is ...
... wrote only half a century previous . It is in the same kind of verse , the eight - syllable iambic , rhyming in couplets . In fire and spirit , however , it is far superior to anything in the old romances and troubadours . Barbour is ...
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... wrote many of the works which he printed . Most of them were translations . History . - Caxton was a merchant of London , and was employed by Edward IV . to negotiate a treaty with the Duke of Burgundy . While at the court of the Duke ...
... wrote many of the works which he printed . Most of them were translations . History . - Caxton was a merchant of London , and was employed by Edward IV . to negotiate a treaty with the Duke of Burgundy . While at the court of the Duke ...
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... wrote mostly in Latin . His Career . - Leland was born near the close of the reign of Henry VII . , and was educated at Cambridge . He was chaplain to Henry VIII . , and received also from that sovereign the singular title of Royal ...
... wrote mostly in Latin . His Career . - Leland was born near the close of the reign of Henry VII . , and was educated at Cambridge . He was chaplain to Henry VIII . , and received also from that sovereign the singular title of Royal ...
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... wrote a good deal , both in prose and verse , but is more noted for his passionate admiration of the works of Sidney than for his own performances . Besides a Life of Sidney , he wrote two Tragedies , Ala- ham and Mustapha , and several ...
... wrote a good deal , both in prose and verse , but is more noted for his passionate admiration of the works of Sidney than for his own performances . Besides a Life of Sidney , he wrote two Tragedies , Ala- ham and Mustapha , and several ...
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... wrote for this the following six poetical chronicles : The Fall of Robert Trevilian ; The Tragedy of Thomas of Woodstock , Duke of Gloucester ; The Tragedy of Richard II .; The Story of Dame Eleanor Cobham ; The Story of Humphrey ...
... wrote for this the following six poetical chronicles : The Fall of Robert Trevilian ; The Tragedy of Thomas of Woodstock , Duke of Gloucester ; The Tragedy of Richard II .; The Story of Dame Eleanor Cobham ; The Story of Humphrey ...
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Page 273 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Page 234 - Scriblerus was to have ridiculed all the false tastes in learning, under the character of a man of capacity enough ; that had dipped into every art and science, but injudiciously in each.
Page 209 - An apology for the true Christian divinity as the same is held forth and preached by the people called in scorn Quakers...
Page 428 - Life! we've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather ; 'Tis hard to part when friends are dear — Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear ; — Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time ; Say not Good Night, — but in some brighter clime Bid me Good Morning.
Page 130 - But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters' pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.
Page 130 - With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light: There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced choir below, In service high, and anthems clear, As may with sweetness through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes.
Page 78 - My ancestors are turned to clay, And many of my mates are gone ; My youngers daily drop away, And can I think to 'scape alone ? No, no, I know that I must die, And yet my life amend not I.
Page 319 - Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it a dull book, (as such books generally are,) and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch for me ; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry.
Page 98 - CXLVI. Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth, Fool'd by those rebel powers that thee array, Why dost thou pine within, and suffer dearth, Painting thy outward walls so costly gay ? Why so large cost, having so short a lease, Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend ? Shall worms, inheritors of this excess, Eat up thy charge ? Is this thy body's end ? Then, soul, live thou upon thy servant's loss, And let that pine to aggravate thy store ; Buy terms divine in selling hours of dross ; Within be fed,...
Page 62 - There is one that passeth all the other, and is the most diligent prelate and preacher in all England. And will ye know who it is? I will tell you: It is the devil. He is the most diligent preacher of all other ; he is never out of his diocese...