Lives of Great English Writers from Chaucer to BrowningHoughton Mifflin, 1908 - 569 pagina's |
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... JOHN MILTON 90 JOHN BUNYAN . 115 JOHN DRYDEN 128 • THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 140 DANIEL DEFOE JONATHAN SWIFT JOSEPH ADDISON ALEXANDER POPE SAMUEL JOHNSON . OLIVER GOLDSMITH EDMUND BURKE • THE AGE OF ROMANTICISM ROBERT BURNS WALTER SCOTT ...
... JOHN MILTON 90 JOHN BUNYAN . 115 JOHN DRYDEN 128 • THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 140 DANIEL DEFOE JONATHAN SWIFT JOSEPH ADDISON ALEXANDER POPE SAMUEL JOHNSON . OLIVER GOLDSMITH EDMUND BURKE • THE AGE OF ROMANTICISM ROBERT BURNS WALTER SCOTT ...
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... JOHN KEATS . . 310 331 . 347 361 383 399 THE VICTORIAN AGE . 411 THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY THOMAS CARLYLE 414 428 • JOHN RUSKIN MATTHEW ARNOLD 447 . 461 CHARLES DICKENS WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY GEORGE ELIOT ALFRED TENNYSON • ROBERT ...
... JOHN KEATS . . 310 331 . 347 361 383 399 THE VICTORIAN AGE . 411 THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY THOMAS CARLYLE 414 428 • JOHN RUSKIN MATTHEW ARNOLD 447 . 461 CHARLES DICKENS WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY GEORGE ELIOT ALFRED TENNYSON • ROBERT ...
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... John Chaucer , the father , was a vintner , a wine merchant ; but this calling , like that of the great English brewer of modern times , was not regarded as a bar to aristocratic pretensions . In- deed , the merchant class generally had ...
... John Chaucer , the father , was a vintner , a wine merchant ; but this calling , like that of the great English brewer of modern times , was not regarded as a bar to aristocratic pretensions . In- deed , the merchant class generally had ...
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... John of Gaunt , Duke of Lancaster , ambitious younger son of Edward III , and there seems to be good ground for assuming closer relations between the two . As early as 1366 the poet was probably married to one Philippa , a lady of the ...
... John of Gaunt , Duke of Lancaster , ambitious younger son of Edward III , and there seems to be good ground for assuming closer relations between the two . As early as 1366 the poet was probably married to one Philippa , a lady of the ...
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... John of Gaunt , and in the next year he was made guardian of the estates of two minors , a profitable office at that time . Later he was again engaged in diplomatic mis- sions abroad , in Flanders , in France , and in Italy . This ...
... John of Gaunt , and in the next year he was made guardian of the estates of two minors , a profitable office at that time . Later he was again engaged in diplomatic mis- sions abroad , in Flanders , in France , and in Italy . This ...
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Lives of Great English Writers from Chaucer to Browning Walter Swain Hinchman,Francis Barton Gummere Volledige weergave - 1908 |
Lives of Great English Writers from Chaucer to Browning Walter Swain Hinchman,Francis Barton Gummere Volledige weergave - 1908 |
Lives of Great English Writers from Chaucer to Browning Walter Swain Hinchman,Francis Barton Gummere Volledige weergave - 1908 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Abbotsford Addison admiration Bacon began Ben Jonson brought Browning Bunyan Burke Byron called Carlyle century Charles Charles Lamb Chaucer chiefly Coleridge court daughter death Defoe Dickens died Dryden Dunciad Edinburgh England English essays fact Faerie Queen fame famous father favor French friends genius George Eliot Goldsmith Grasmere heart humor interest Italy John Johnson Keats King Lady Lamb later Leigh Hunt Leslie Stephen Letters Series literary literature lived London Lord Macaulay marriage married Matthew Arnold Milton Moor Park moreover nature never Oxford Pilgrim's Progress play poem poet poet's poetic poetry Pope Pope's praise published Puritan quarrel Queen Quincey Ralegh remarkable Ruskin Sartor Resartus satire says Scott Shakespeare Shelley Shelley's sonnets soon Spenser spirit story Swift Tennyson Thackeray things Thomas thought tion took verse Whig wife William Wordsworth write written wrote young youth
Populaire passages
Pagina 184 - It was said of Socrates that he brought Philosophy down from heaven, to inhabit among men ; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of closets and libraries, schools and colleges, to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea-tables and in coffeehouses.
Pagina 396 - Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is : What if my leaves are falling like its own ! The tumult of thy mighty harmonies Will take from both a deep, autumnal tone, Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, spirit fierce, My spirit ! Be thou me, impetuous one...
Pagina 312 - Come back into memory, like as thou wert in the day-spring of thy fancies, with hope like a fiery column before thee — the dark pillar not yet turned — /Samuel Taylor Coleridge — Logician, Metaphysician, Bard...
Pagina 94 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Pagina 39 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet...
Pagina 449 - Homer were reading of my own election, but my mother forced me, by steady daily toil, to learn long chapters of the Bible by heart, as well as to read it every syllable through, aloud, hard names and all, from Genesis to the Apocalypse, about once a year ; and to that discipline — patient, accurate, and resolute — I owe not only a knowledge of the book', which I find occasionally serviceable, but much of my general power of taking pains, and the best part of my taste in literature.
Pagina 404 - The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy ; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted...
Pagina 432 - Behold, thou art fatherless, outcast, and the Universe is mine (the Devil's)"; to which my whole Me now made answer: "I am not thine, but Free, and forever hate thee!" 'It is from this hour that I incline to date my Spiritual New-birth, or Baphometic Fire-baptism; perhaps I directly thereupon began to be a Man.
Pagina 94 - Only this my mind gave me, that every free and gentle spirit, without that oath, ought to be born a knight, nor needed to expect the gilt spur or the laying of a sword upon his shoulder to stir him up both by his counsel and his arms to secure and protect the weakness of any attempted chastity.
Pagina 307 - Thanks to its tenderness, its joys and fears, To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.