History of the English Language and LiteratureE. Hopkins, 1837 - 328 pages |
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... verse . This form of writing he considered best adapted to their capacities in that rude age . This prince may therefore be viewed as one of the earliest versifiers in the Anglo - Saxon tongue . ANGLO - SAXON AND NORMAN LANGUAGES . 11 ...
... verse . This form of writing he considered best adapted to their capacities in that rude age . This prince may therefore be viewed as one of the earliest versifiers in the Anglo - Saxon tongue . ANGLO - SAXON AND NORMAN LANGUAGES . 11 ...
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... verse than poets , flourished in the reign of Henry II . * About the end of that period , when the French had become nearly identified with the Saxon , there arose a series of poets , who composed long romantic tales , in a manner which ...
... verse than poets , flourished in the reign of Henry II . * About the end of that period , when the French had become nearly identified with the Saxon , there arose a series of poets , who composed long romantic tales , in a manner which ...
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... verse from a poem on the death of Edward I .; an event which took place in the year 1307 : — Jerusalem , thou hast iloret The flour of all chivalerie , Nou Kyng Edward liveth na more , Alas ! that he yet shulde deye ! He wolde ha rered ...
... verse from a poem on the death of Edward I .; an event which took place in the year 1307 : — Jerusalem , thou hast iloret The flour of all chivalerie , Nou Kyng Edward liveth na more , Alas ! that he yet shulde deye ! He wolde ha rered ...
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... verse of Chaucer , in its original appearance , his description of the Miller may be here presented : The Miller was a stout carl for the nones , Ful big he was of braun and eke of bones : That proved wel , for over all ther he came ...
... verse of Chaucer , in its original appearance , his description of the Miller may be here presented : The Miller was a stout carl for the nones , Ful big he was of braun and eke of bones : That proved wel , for over all ther he came ...
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... verse may be said to aid in the effect ; its breaks and changes seeming to represent , as a critic has remarked , the sighs and sobbings of a broken and ebbing spirit : Alas the woe ! alas the painés strong , That I for you have ...
... verse may be said to aid in the effect ; its breaks and changes seeming to represent , as a critic has remarked , the sighs and sobbings of a broken and ebbing spirit : Alas the woe ! alas the painés strong , That I for you have ...
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Page 211 - Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests: in all time. Calm or convulsed — in breeze, or gale, or storm. Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving; — boundless, endless, and sublime; The image of eternity, the throne Of the Invisible: even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 143 - A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Page 35 - No longer mourn for me when I am dead, Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell : 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 144 - The unfeeling for his own. Yet, ah ! why should they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies ? Thought would destroy their paradise. No more ; — where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.
Page 57 - QUEEN and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light, Goddess, excellently bright! Earth, let not thy envious shade Dare itself to interpose: Cynthia's shining orb was made Heaven to clear when day did close: Bless us then with wished sight, Goddess, excellently bright! Lay thy bow of pearl apart, And thy crystal shining quiver: Give unto the flying hart Space to breathe, how short soever; Thou that...
Page 40 - We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away Like to the Summer's rain; Or as the pearls of morning's dew, Ne'er to be found again.
Page 111 - The little engine on his fingers' ends; This just behind Belinda's neck he spread, As o'er the fragrant steams she bends her head. Swift to the lock a thousand sprites repair...
Page 144 - Gainst graver hours, that bring constraint To sweeten liberty; Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare descry! Still, as they run, they look behind! They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy I Gay Hope is theirs, by Fancy fed; Less pleasing when possest ! The tear forgot as soon as shed!
Page 86 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 34 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste: Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow, For precious friends hid in death's dateless night...