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. Elegantly IllustratedRobert Chambers Gould and Lincoln, 1853 |
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... spirit , a command of phra seology , and a fertility of imagination , not to be found in any English poet since Chaucer and Lyd- gate . ' Perhaps the explanation of this seeming mystery is , that the influences which operated upon ...
... spirit , a command of phra seology , and a fertility of imagination , not to be found in any English poet since Chaucer and Lyd- gate . ' Perhaps the explanation of this seeming mystery is , that the influences which operated upon ...
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... spirit of pro- phecy . For on a time , he , with other men of Peruse , was taken prisoner , and were put in a cruel prison , where all the other wailed and sorrowed , and he only was glad and enjoyed . And when they had repreved him ...
... spirit of pro- phecy . For on a time , he , with other men of Peruse , was taken prisoner , and were put in a cruel prison , where all the other wailed and sorrowed , and he only was glad and enjoyed . And when they had repreved him ...
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... spirit ; a contrite and a broken heart , O God , thou wilt not despise . ' 6 But Then said Master Tyrell of the Bratches , called William Tyrell , Thou liest , ' said he ; thou readest false , for the words are , " an humble spirit ...
... spirit ; a contrite and a broken heart , O God , thou wilt not despise . ' 6 But Then said Master Tyrell of the Bratches , called William Tyrell , Thou liest , ' said he ; thou readest false , for the words are , " an humble spirit ...
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... spirit in those who supported such principles , as from a desire of opposing the puritans , and other malcontents , whose religious doctrines taught them to despise some departments of elegant literature , and utterly to condemn others ...
... spirit in those who supported such principles , as from a desire of opposing the puritans , and other malcontents , whose religious doctrines taught them to despise some departments of elegant literature , and utterly to condemn others ...
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... spirit of love is not unlike Ovid's description of the creation of man : the soul , just severed from the sky , retains part of its heavenly power- ' And frames her house , in which she will be placed , Fit for herself . ' sat Amongst ...
... spirit of love is not unlike Ovid's description of the creation of man : the soul , just severed from the sky , retains part of its heavenly power- ' And frames her house , in which she will be placed , Fit for herself . ' sat Amongst ...
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Page 178 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines...
Page 182 - Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice, In fair round belly with good capon...
Page 100 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
Page 329 - 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 329 - While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrow'd land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Page 113 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! Heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtle flame As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life.
Page 322 - Go, LOVELY rose ! Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts, where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired: Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired. Then die! that she The common fate of all things rare May read in thee! — How...
Page 324 - Old Law did save, And such as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind. Her face was...
Page 182 - The seasons' difference ; as, the icy fang, And churlish chiding of the winter's wind ; Which when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile, and say, — This is no flattery : these are counsellors, That feelingly persuade me what I am. Sweet are the uses of adversity ; Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head ; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and...
Page 182 - Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, — The seasons' difference : as the icy fang And churlish chiding of the winter's wind, Which when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile and say, This is no flattery : these are counsellors That feelingly persuade me what I am.