A first sketch of English literature. With suppl. to the end of queen Victoria's reign1912 |
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... writers ( including many still happily with us ) who are unmentioned in previous editions . In this Supplement Mr. Edmunds has set himself the task of continuing the work on the lines adopted by Professor Morley , and of bringing the ...
... writers ( including many still happily with us ) who are unmentioned in previous editions . In this Supplement Mr. Edmunds has set himself the task of continuing the work on the lines adopted by Professor Morley , and of bringing the ...
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... writing , Alcuin chiefly occupied himself with attack on heresy ; but he wrote also text - books to provide means for efficient teaching in his schools , and he was energetic in repression of the love of wine and of the chase that had ...
... writing , Alcuin chiefly occupied himself with attack on heresy ; but he wrote also text - books to provide means for efficient teaching in his schools , and he was energetic in repression of the love of wine and of the chase that had ...
Pagina 30
... writing . 16. About this time , perhaps , there was produced by a Celtic writer a Latin History of the Britons . In a prologue which began to appear before the twelfth century copies of the history , its author's name is said to be ...
... writing . 16. About this time , perhaps , there was produced by a Celtic writer a Latin History of the Britons . In a prologue which began to appear before the twelfth century copies of the history , its author's name is said to be ...
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... writer of that history ascribed to Nennius in which King Arthur is first mentioned . The two chronicles differ much in spirit , and cannot be by the same writer . In Gildas , who has been some- times confounded with Nennius , there is ...
... writer of that history ascribed to Nennius in which King Arthur is first mentioned . The two chronicles differ much in spirit , and cannot be by the same writer . In Gildas , who has been some- times confounded with Nennius , there is ...
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... writing to perfection ; in the other Geoffrey of Monmouth produced out of the form of the chronicle the spirit that ... writer of Latin verse and prose . Geoffrey under- took the task , and formed accordingly his History of British Kings ...
... writing to perfection ; in the other Geoffrey of Monmouth produced out of the form of the chronicle the spirit that ... writer of Latin verse and prose . Geoffrey under- took the task , and formed accordingly his History of British Kings ...
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Pagina 484 - But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held ; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
Pagina 497 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! Heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtle flame As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life.
Pagina 314 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Pagina 818 - His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity : All must be false that thwart this one great end, And all of God that bless mankind or mend. Man, like the generous vine, supported lives ; The strength he gains is from th
Pagina 437 - I am as sorry as if the original fault had been my fault, because myself have seen his demeanour no less civil than he excellent in the quality he professes: besides, divers of worship have reported his uprightness of dealing which argues his honesty, and his facetious grace in writing, that approves his art.
Pagina 780 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel by divine command With rising tempests shakes a guilty land, Such as of late o'er pale Britannia past, Calm and serene he drives the furious blast ; And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm.
Pagina 518 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit, or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect, or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon, or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention, or a shop for profit and sale ; and not a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Pagina 498 - Euripides, and Sophocles to us, Paccuvius, Accius, him of Cordova dead, To life again, to hear thy buskin tread, And shake a stage : or, when thy socks were on, Leave thee alone, for the comparison Of all that insolent Greece or haughty Rome Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come.
Pagina 354 - I bear them, so without measure misordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr.
Pagina 414 - At cards for kisses — Cupid paid; He stakes his quiver, bow and arrows, His mother's doves, and team of sparrows ; Loses them too; then down he throws The coral of his lip, the rose Growing on's cheek (but none knows how), With these, the crystal of his brow, And then the dimple of his chin ; All these did my Campaspe win. At last he set her both his eyes, She won, and Cupid blind did rise. O Love! has she done this to thee? What shall, alas! become of me?* THE SONGS OF BIRDS. WHAT bird so sings,...