A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John Mandeville to William Cowper : Consisting of Biographical Sketches of the Authors, Selections from Their Works, with Notes, Explanatory, Illustrative, and Directing to the Best Editions and to Various Criticisms : Designed as a Text-book for the Higher Classes in Schools and for Junior Classes in Colleges, as Well as for Private Reading |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 100
Page 3
... give my first or " finish- ing ' class a knowledge of the best British Poets and Prose writers , arranged in a chronological order , to show the progress of the English language , with short accounts of the authors and of their works ...
... give my first or " finish- ing ' class a knowledge of the best British Poets and Prose writers , arranged in a chronological order , to show the progress of the English language , with short accounts of the authors and of their works ...
Page 5
... give a correct idea of it ; and there were some points in the author's life that deserved to be brought out , to do justice to his character . - MARLOW . The beautiful song , " The Passionate Shepherd to his Love , " is now printed as ...
... give a correct idea of it ; and there were some points in the author's life that deserved to be brought out , to do justice to his character . - MARLOW . The beautiful song , " The Passionate Shepherd to his Love , " is now printed as ...
Page 18
... give place . We must bear continually in mind that he wrote nearly five hundred years ago - one hundred years before printing was introduced into England - in an age of great ignorance , and eager for the marvellous and the wonderful in ...
... give place . We must bear continually in mind that he wrote nearly five hundred years ago - one hundred years before printing was introduced into England - in an age of great ignorance , and eager for the marvellous and the wonderful in ...
Page 25
... give but one quotation from his heroic poem . After the painful description of the slavery to which Scotland was reduced by Edward I. , he breaks out in the following noble Apostrophe to Freedom . It is in a style of poetical feeling ...
... give but one quotation from his heroic poem . After the painful description of the slavery to which Scotland was reduced by Edward I. , he breaks out in the following noble Apostrophe to Freedom . It is in a style of poetical feeling ...
Page 31
... give By his cleanness how his sheep should live . He setté not his benefice to hire , And let his sheep accumbreds in the mire , And ran unto Londón unto Saint Poule's To seeken him a chantery9 for souls , Or with a brotherhood to be ...
... give By his cleanness how his sheep should live . He setté not his benefice to hire , And let his sheep accumbreds in the mire , And ran unto Londón unto Saint Poule's To seeken him a chantery9 for souls , Or with a brotherhood to be ...
Contents
17 | |
25 | |
55 | |
63 | |
80 | |
88 | |
125 | |
149 | |
207 | |
225 | |
309 | |
356 | |
450 | |
532 | |
555 | |
578 | |
158 | |
167 | |
169 | |
175 | |
186 | |
712 | |
717 | |
760 | |
764 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
admirable beauty Ben Jonson better blessing born breath called Castara character Chaucer Christian church death delight divine doth earth Edinburgh Review England English English language English Poetry excellent eyes Faerie Queene fair fame fancy father fear flowers fortune genius Giles Fletcher give grace hand happy hast hath hear heart heaven holy honor hope human king labor lady language learning light live look Lord Lycidas Milton mind moral Muse nature never night noble o'er Paradise Lost passion PHINEAS FLETCHER pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope praise prince prose Queen religion rich Roger Ascham says shade Shakspeare Sir Patrick Spens song soon soul spirit style sweet taste tears tell thee things Thomas Warton thou thought tion true truth unto verse virtue William Davenant words writings