A history of English literature, in a series of biographical sketches |
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... royal presence . To attempt a description of the symbols here would be absurd . No fewer than twenty - three figures of birds with spread or folded wings are there . The sign for water is fre- quently repeated . Figures of men kneel and ...
... royal presence . To attempt a description of the symbols here would be absurd . No fewer than twenty - three figures of birds with spread or folded wings are there . The sign for water is fre- quently repeated . Figures of men kneel and ...
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... royal scholar's life and works . What Alfred did for England in those dark days , when Danish pirates ravaged the land so sorely , every reader of our history knows . Here it is not as the warrior , victorious at Ethandune and on the ...
... royal scholar's life and works . What Alfred did for England in those dark days , when Danish pirates ravaged the land so sorely , every reader of our history knows . Here it is not as the warrior , victorious at Ethandune and on the ...
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... royal witling ventured on no more puns , for that day at least , at the scholar's expense . died in France some time previous to the DUNSTAN . - One of the foremost Saxons of his day , though more noted for his learning than for his ...
... royal witling ventured on no more puns , for that day at least , at the scholar's expense . died in France some time previous to the DUNSTAN . - One of the foremost Saxons of his day , though more noted for his learning than for his ...
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William Francis Collier. EARLY LIFE OF CHAUCER . 53 Chaucer's early life . Royal patronage . Visits Genoa . CHAPTER IV . GEOFFREY CHAUCER . Born about 1328 A.D .......... Died 1400 A.D. Comptroller of Customs . Sunshine . Under Richard ...
William Francis Collier. EARLY LIFE OF CHAUCER . 53 Chaucer's early life . Royal patronage . Visits Genoa . CHAPTER IV . GEOFFREY CHAUCER . Born about 1328 A.D .......... Died 1400 A.D. Comptroller of Customs . Sunshine . Under Richard ...
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... royal grants , —a pitcher of wine daily for life the office of Comptroller of Customs of wool , wine , & c . , in the Port of London - the wardship of a rich heir , for three years ' guardianship of whom he got £ 104 . During this ...
... royal grants , —a pitcher of wine daily for life the office of Comptroller of Customs of wool , wine , & c . , in the Port of London - the wardship of a rich heir , for three years ' guardianship of whom he got £ 104 . During this ...
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A History of English Literature in a Series of Biographical Sketches William Francis Collier Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1892 |
A History of English Literature, in a Series of Biographical Sketches William Francis Collier Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1866 |
A History of English Literature, in a Series of Biographical Sketches William Francis Collier Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1871 |
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Էջ 312 - twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane— as I do here.
Էջ 385 - Kent. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
Էջ 311 - His steps are not upon thy paths, — thy fields Are not a spoil for him, — thou dost arise And shake him from thee; the vile strength he wields For earth's destruction thou dost all despise, Spurning him from thy bosom to the skies, And send'st him, shivering in thy playful spray And howling to his Gods, where haply lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth : — there let him lay.
Էջ 374 - All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things. Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods, ' And mountains ; and of all that we behold From this green earth; of all the mighty world Of eye and ear, both what they half create *, And what perceive...
Էջ 377 - I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.
Էջ 121 - Fairies' coach-makers. And in this state she gallops night by night Through lovers' brains, and then they dream of love : On courtiers' knees, that dream on court'sies straight : O'er lawyers' fingers, who straight dream on fees : O'er ladies...
Էջ 169 - The other Shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb ; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either — black it stood as Night, 670 Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart : what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Էջ 284 - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed, though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation, My lord, Your lordship's most humble, Most obedient servant, SAM. JOHNSON.
Էջ 169 - No sooner had the Almighty ceased but — all The multitude of Angels, with a shout Loud as from numbers without number, sweet As from blest voices, uttering joy — Heaven rung With jubilee, and loud hosannas filled The eternal regions.
Էջ 169 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence : Here we may reign secure, and, in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell : Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven...