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 23
... look well their chronicles and books , they shoulden find , that Bede translated the Bible , and expounded much in Saxon , that was English , either common language of this land , in his time . And not only Bede , but king Alfred , that ...
... look well their chronicles and books , they shoulden find , that Bede translated the Bible , and expounded much in Saxon , that was English , either common language of this land , in his time . And not only Bede , but king Alfred , that ...
Page 33
... look after beauty and worldly pleasure ; but they that honor the Leaf , which abideth with the root , notwithstanding the winter storms and frosts , are they which follow virtue and true merit , without regarding worldly respects . Such ...
... look after beauty and worldly pleasure ; but they that honor the Leaf , which abideth with the root , notwithstanding the winter storms and frosts , are they which follow virtue and true merit , without regarding worldly respects . Such ...
Page 49
... look up to a star , or to the sun itself : or how any should value himself because his cloth is made of finer thread ; for , how fine soever that thread may be , it was once no better than the fleece of a sheep , and that sheep was a ...
... look up to a star , or to the sun itself : or how any should value himself because his cloth is made of finer thread ; for , how fine soever that thread may be , it was once no better than the fleece of a sheep , and that sheep was a ...
Page 54
... Look'd in death's face and smiled , death standing by . In spite of Rome , for England's faith he stood , And in the flames he seal'd it with his blood . It rests on indubitable evidence that Tyndale's voice was hardly hushed in death ...
... Look'd in death's face and smiled , death standing by . In spite of Rome , for England's faith he stood , And in the flames he seal'd it with his blood . It rests on indubitable evidence that Tyndale's voice was hardly hushed in death ...
Page 62
... looks , that tigers could but rue , 2 Where each of us did plead the other's right . The palme - play , 3 where ... look , the expression of the countenance . 10 " The clothed holts with green , " the high hills clothed with verdure ...
... looks , that tigers could but rue , 2 Where each of us did plead the other's right . The palme - play , 3 where ... look , the expression of the countenance . 10 " The clothed holts with green , " the high hills clothed with verdure ...
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