Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from the Earliest to the Present Time, Connected by a Critical and Biographical History, Volume 1Robert Chambers Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1849 - English literature |
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... Fall of Man is somewhat like that given in Paradise Lost , and one passage in it might almost be supposed to have ... falls in the second line . A few names of inferior note - Aldhelm , abbot of * Thorpe's edition of Cædmon , 1832 . 2 ...
... Fall of Man is somewhat like that given in Paradise Lost , and one passage in it might almost be supposed to have ... falls in the second line . A few names of inferior note - Aldhelm , abbot of * Thorpe's edition of Cædmon , 1832 . 2 ...
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... fall , And said , with sighing sore : ' Father , ' she said , ' let me be his wife , That there be no more strife , ' & c . [ Extract from the Squire of Low Degree . ] [ The daughter of the king of Hungary having fallen into melancholy ...
... fall , And said , with sighing sore : ' Father , ' she said , ' let me be his wife , That there be no more strife , ' & c . [ Extract from the Squire of Low Degree . ] [ The daughter of the king of Hungary having fallen into melancholy ...
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... fall ; And he that hath the cut , with hearté blithe , Shall runnen to the town , and that full swith , 13 And bring us bread and wine full privily ; And two of us shall keepen subtlely This treasure well ; and if he will not tarrien ...
... fall ; And he that hath the cut , with hearté blithe , Shall runnen to the town , and that full swith , 13 And bring us bread and wine full privily ; And two of us shall keepen subtlely This treasure well ; and if he will not tarrien ...
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... fall ; Here is no home , here is but wilderness ; Forth , pilgrim , forth , O beast out of thy stall ; Look up on high , and thank thy God of all ; Either in whispering or musing . To find a flaw in . 3 Though clerks , or scholars ...
... fall ; Here is no home , here is but wilderness ; Forth , pilgrim , forth , O beast out of thy stall ; Look up on high , and thank thy God of all ; Either in whispering or musing . To find a flaw in . 3 Though clerks , or scholars ...
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... fall unto a man , is so muckle agains nature as a man to increase his own profit to harm of another man . And though the great men and the mighty men geten riches more lightly than thou , yet shalt thou not ben idle ne slow to do thy ...
... fall unto a man , is so muckle agains nature as a man to increase his own profit to harm of another man . And though the great men and the mighty men geten riches more lightly than thou , yet shalt thou not ben idle ne slow to do thy ...
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Page 185 - Here, under leave of Brutus, and the rest, (For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men;) Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral. He was my friend, faithful and just to me: But Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man.
Page 132 - Sweet Day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die.
Page 329 - MAY MORNING. Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire ; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long.
Page 107 - Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it : for I love you so. That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, If thinking on me then should make you woe.
Page 395 - ... teeth: and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Page 331 - Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful jollity, Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek ; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides...
Page 333 - Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That owned the virtuous ring and glass, And of the wondrous horse of brass, On which the Tartar king did ride...
Page 243 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business.
Page 187 - To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling...
Page 334 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new world ; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...