A History of English Literature: In a Series of Biographical SketchesNelson, 1871 - 549 páginas |
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... Lord Buckhurst 132 FOURTH ERA . FROM THE SHUTTING OF THE THEATRES IN 1648 A.D. TO THE DEATH OF MILTON IN 1674 A.D. I. Puritans and Cavaliers - their in- fluence upon English Literature 176 IV . Edward Hyde , Earl of Claren- don ...
... Lord Buckhurst 132 FOURTH ERA . FROM THE SHUTTING OF THE THEATRES IN 1648 A.D. TO THE DEATH OF MILTON IN 1674 A.D. I. Puritans and Cavaliers - their in- fluence upon English Literature 176 IV . Edward Hyde , Earl of Claren- don ...
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... Lord Byron ....... 386 363 VII . George Crabbe 393 III . Robert Burns ......... 369 VIII . Sir Walter Scott ... Lord Mac- aulay 461 VI . Sheridan Knowles ..................... 468 VII . Alfred Tennyson ...
... Lord Byron ....... 386 363 VII . George Crabbe 393 III . Robert Burns ......... 369 VIII . Sir Walter Scott ... Lord Mac- aulay 461 VI . Sheridan Knowles ..................... 468 VII . Alfred Tennyson ...
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... Lord's Supper . Alfric of Canterbury died in November 1006 . The famous Saxon Chronicle was the work of centuries . An Archbishop of Canterbury , named Plegmund , drawing largely from Bede , is said to have compiled the work up to 891 ...
... Lord's Supper . Alfric of Canterbury died in November 1006 . The famous Saxon Chronicle was the work of centuries . An Archbishop of Canterbury , named Plegmund , drawing largely from Bede , is said to have compiled the work up to 891 ...
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... Lord was buryed , that is withoute the cytee on the north syde . But it is now enclosed in with the ton wall . And there is a full fair chirche all rownd , and open above , and covered with leed . And on the west syde is a fair tour and ...
... Lord was buryed , that is withoute the cytee on the north syde . But it is now enclosed in with the ton wall . And there is a full fair chirche all rownd , and open above , and covered with leed . And on the west syde is a fair tour and ...
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... Lord Jhesus . And it was don , the while thei weren astonyed in thought of this thing , lo twey men stodun bisidis hem in schynyng cloth . And whanne thei dredden and bowiden her semblaunt into erthe , thei seiden to hem , what seeken ...
... Lord Jhesus . And it was don , the while thei weren astonyed in thought of this thing , lo twey men stodun bisidis hem in schynyng cloth . And whanne thei dredden and bowiden her semblaunt into erthe , thei seiden to hem , what seeken ...
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Página 210 - 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, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on...
Página 211 - Hail, horrors ! hail, Infernal world ! and thou, profoundest Hell, Receive thy new possessor ! one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
Página 212 - 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.
Página 379 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Página 243 - That every man with him was God or devil. In squandering wealth was his peculiar art; Nothing went unrewarded but desert. Beggared by fools, whom still he found too late ; He had his jest, and they had his estate.
Página 190 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds : but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant — descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the...
Página 243 - He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
Página 227 - I' th' middle of his speech, or cough, H' had hard words ready to show why, And tell what rules he did it by ; Else, when with greatest art he spoke, You'd think he talked like other folk.
Página 447 - Who gave you your invulnerable life, Your strength, your speed, your fury, and your joy, Unceasing thunder and eternal foam ? And who commanded — and the silence came — Here let the billows stiffen, and have rest...
Página 149 - Yet his real power is not shown in the splendour of particular passages, but by the progress of his fable and the tenor of his dialogue ; and he that tries to recommend him by select quotations will succeed like the pedant in Hierocles, who, when he offered his house to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen.