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... composition . The stories , originally written in the French , full of love and adventure , were vital with the spirit of chivalry . Profes sional minstrels , knights , and even kings had vied in their compo- sition . They had a ...
... composition . The stories , originally written in the French , full of love and adventure , were vital with the spirit of chivalry . Profes sional minstrels , knights , and even kings had vied in their compo- sition . They had a ...
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... compositions . Its apologies for what had been writ- ten in his earlier years , and its mention of many of his pre- vious works , clearly prove that it was produced after much of his busy life was spent . The avowed purpose of the poem ...
... compositions . Its apologies for what had been writ- ten in his earlier years , and its mention of many of his pre- vious works , clearly prove that it was produced after much of his busy life was spent . The avowed purpose of the poem ...
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... compositions and judged on their independent merits , but deriving an infinitely higher interest from the way in which they harmonize with their respective narrators . After giving a brief , picturesque de- scription of spring , the ...
... compositions and judged on their independent merits , but deriving an infinitely higher interest from the way in which they harmonize with their respective narrators . After giving a brief , picturesque de- scription of spring , the ...
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... composition ; and tradition assigns its authorship to WILLIAM * LANGLANDE , who is otherwise unknown . Two facts are clear from * The author of this work is referred to as Robert , as William , and sometimes as John Langlande . He calls ...
... composition ; and tradition assigns its authorship to WILLIAM * LANGLANDE , who is otherwise unknown . Two facts are clear from * The author of this work is referred to as Robert , as William , and sometimes as John Langlande . He calls ...
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... compositions . His learning was extensive , and he was somewhat pedantic in its display . As the French was still the language of educated people in England , he used the alien tongue in the Speculum Meditantis , the first of his three ...
... compositions . His learning was extensive , and he was somewhat pedantic in its display . As the French was still the language of educated people in England , he used the alien tongue in the Speculum Meditantis , the first of his three ...
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Página 151 - It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time, be so little read. As compositions, they deserve the attention of every man who wishes to become acquainted with the full power of the English language. They abound with passages compared with which the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance. They are a perfect field of cloth of gold. The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the
Página 142 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Página 142 - Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
Página 282 - This kind of life — the cheerless gloom of A hermit, with the unceasing moil of a galleyslave, brought me to my sixteenth year ; a little before which period I first committed the sin of Rhyme. You know our country custom of coupling a man and woman together as partners in the labours of harvest.
Página 215 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel, by divine command, With rising tempests shakes a guilty land (Such as of late o'er pale Britannia passed), Calm and serene he drives the furious blast; And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
Página 252 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
Página 165 - Whose humorous vein, strong sense, and simple style, May teach the gayest, make the gravest smile, Witty, and well employed, and like thy Lord Speaking in parables his slighted word...
Página 202 - Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense: Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar.
Página 202 - In search of wit, these lose their common sense, And then turn critics in their own defence: Each burns alike, who can, or cannot write, 30 Or with a rival's, or an eunuch's spite.
Página 283 - It needs no effort of imagination,' says he, 'to conceive what the sensations of an isolated set of scholars (almost all either clergymen or professors) must have been in the presence of this big-boned, blackbrowed, brawny stranger, with his great flashing eyes, who, having forced his way among them from the plough-tail at a single stride, manifested in the whole strain of his bearing and conversation a most thorough conviction, that in the society of the most eminent men of his nation he was exactly...