First Steps in English LiteratureA.S Barnes, 1870 - 233 páginas |
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... London . The night before the battle the Normans prayed in silence , and the Saxons sat about their olazing camp - fires eating and drinking , and singing the merry songs of their fathers . In the battle of the next day the Saxons were ...
... London . The night before the battle the Normans prayed in silence , and the Saxons sat about their olazing camp - fires eating and drinking , and singing the merry songs of their fathers . In the battle of the next day the Saxons were ...
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... London , and was the first of the poets buried in Westminster Abbey . His reputation rests mainly on his Canterbury Tales , a series of humorous and pathetic stories related by a company of per- sons who are represented to have set out ...
... London , and was the first of the poets buried in Westminster Abbey . His reputation rests mainly on his Canterbury Tales , a series of humorous and pathetic stories related by a company of per- sons who are represented to have set out ...
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... London , and was after- wards imprisoned . His chief English work is en- titled The Repressor of the too much blaming of the Clergy , in which , besides the doctrine above , he upholds the Bible as the true rule of faith . His style is ...
... London , and was after- wards imprisoned . His chief English work is en- titled The Repressor of the too much blaming of the Clergy , in which , besides the doctrine above , he upholds the Bible as the true rule of faith . His style is ...
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... London , where , with his loved wife Alice , he used to entertain not only his learned Dutch friend Erasmus , but also clumsy King Henry , and many brilliant literary men of the day . The pleas- ant days did not last , however ; and ...
... London , where , with his loved wife Alice , he used to entertain not only his learned Dutch friend Erasmus , but also clumsy King Henry , and many brilliant literary men of the day . The pleas- ant days did not last , however ; and ...
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... London life among the gallants and citi- zens of the middle class . It possesses a comic spirit and humor without descending to licentious- ness or buffoonery , and belongs to a class of writ- ings in which the English nation stands ...
... London life among the gallants and citi- zens of the middle class . It possesses a comic spirit and humor without descending to licentious- ness or buffoonery , and belongs to a class of writ- ings in which the English nation stands ...
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Página 125 - As Berecynthia, while her offspring vie In homage to the mother of the sky, Surveys around her, in the...
Página 39 - Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chilness to my trembling heart.
Página 129 - ... wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick. We see the eyes and mouth moving with convulsive twitches ; we see the heavy form rolling ; we hear it puffing ; and then comes the 'Why, sir!
Página 105 - So effectually, indeed, did he retort on vice the mockery which had recently been directed against virtue, that, since his time, the open violation of decency has always been considered among us as the mark of a fool.
Página 80 - The indorsement of supreme delight, Writ by a Friend, and with His blood ; The couch of time ; care's balm and bay ; The week were dark, but for thy light: Thy torch doth show the way.
Página 93 - Other allegorists have shown equal ingenuity, but no other allegorist has ever been able to touch the heart, and to make abstractions objects of terror, of pity, and of love.
Página 129 - What a singular destiny has been that of this remarkable man! To be regarded in his own age as a classic, and in ours as a companion ! To receive from his contemporaries that full homage which men of genius have in general received only from posterity ! To be more intimately known to posterity than other men are known to their contemporaries!
Página 115 - Don Quixote, and loved that dear old Sancho, Gay lived, and was lapped in cotton, and had his plate of chicken, and his saucer of cream, and frisked, and barked, and wheezed, and grew fat, and so ended.* He became very melancholy and lazy, sadly plethoric, and only occasionally diverting in his latter days.
Página 138 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Página 75 - Truly, good Christian Reader, we never thought from the beginning that we should need to make a new translation, nor yet to make of a bad one a good one; . . . but to make a good one better, or out of many good ones one principal good one, not justly to be excepted against; that hath been our endeavour, that our mark.