History of the English Language and LiteratureE. Hopkins, 1837 - 328 pages |
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... called for . As no personal preju- dices have been knowingly indulged , and no political , sectional , or secta- rian purposes have been sought to be answered in the preparation of the book ; the possibility of mistakes in the matter ...
... called for . As no personal preju- dices have been knowingly indulged , and no political , sectional , or secta- rian purposes have been sought to be answered in the preparation of the book ; the possibility of mistakes in the matter ...
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... called , in reference to England , the British tongue ; in reference to Scotland , the Gaelic ; and in reference to Ireland , the Irish . It was originally the language of a large body of people called the Celts , who , several ...
... called , in reference to England , the British tongue ; in reference to Scotland , the Gaelic ; and in reference to Ireland , the Irish . It was originally the language of a large body of people called the Celts , who , several ...
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... called Bede , a priest , who lived in the eighth century , was celebrated over all Europe for his learning and his literary productions . But the majority of the writers of that age thought it necessary to compose their works in Latin ...
... called Bede , a priest , who lived in the eighth century , was celebrated over all Europe for his learning and his literary productions . But the majority of the writers of that age thought it necessary to compose their works in Latin ...
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... called Chivalry , and led to those gal- lant but unfortunate expeditions , the Crusades , which had for their object the rescue of the Holy Land from the dominion of the Saracens . A considerable number of the productions of the ...
... called Chivalry , and led to those gal- lant but unfortunate expeditions , the Crusades , which had for their object the rescue of the Holy Land from the dominion of the Saracens . A considerable number of the productions of the ...
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... called the Canterbury Tales , which consists of a series of sportive and pathetic narratives , related by a miscellaneous compa- ny in the course of a religious pilgrimage to Canterbury . The work opens with a description of the company ...
... called the Canterbury Tales , which consists of a series of sportive and pathetic narratives , related by a miscellaneous compa- ny in the course of a religious pilgrimage to Canterbury . The work opens with a description of the company ...
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Page 139 - 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 31 - 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 140 - 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 206 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean — roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ruin— his control Stops with the shore ; — upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed...
Page 36 - You haste away so soon; As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attain'd his noon. Stay, stay Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having pray'd together, we Will go with you along. 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 107 - And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies. Not louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or when lapdogs breathe their last ; Or when rich China vessels, fall'n from high, In glitt'ring dust and painted fragments lie ! " Let wreaths of triumph now my temples twine...
Page 115 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Page 108 - For others good, or melt at others woe. What can atone (oh ever-injur'd shade !) Thy fate unpity'd, and thy rites unpaid ? No friend's complaint, no kind domestic tear Pleas'd thy pale ghost, or grac'd thy mournful bier : By foreign hands thy dying eyes were clos'd, By foreign hands thy decent limbs compos'd, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorn'd, By strangers honour'd, and by strangers mourn'd! What tho' no friends in sable weeds appear.
Page 82 - 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 77 - He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a lord may be an owl ; A calf an alderman, a goose a justice, And rooks committee-men and trustees.