Knight's Penny Magazine, Volúmenes1-2Charles Knight, 1846 |
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... poet is not among the first , but it is a very forward one . And he has other claims on our regard . The nature of his writings led him to treat of popular manners , of which he has left us some lively pictures sketched with the free ...
... poet is not among the first , but it is a very forward one . And he has other claims on our regard . The nature of his writings led him to treat of popular manners , of which he has left us some lively pictures sketched with the free ...
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... poet laureat in the University of Oxenford , to oversee and correct this said book ; and to address and expound ... poets and orators to me unknown . " * A flock . Skelton was , as Caxton says , a learned man OLD AUTHORS AND OLD ...
... poet laureat in the University of Oxenford , to oversee and correct this said book ; and to address and expound ... poets and orators to me unknown . " * A flock . Skelton was , as Caxton says , a learned man OLD AUTHORS AND OLD ...
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... poet for all time , like Shakspere and Milton , but for his own time ; and now lives only for those who wish to become as intimately acquainted as possible with that generation , or for the student of the history of our language and ...
... poet for all time , like Shakspere and Milton , but for his own time ; and now lives only for those who wish to become as intimately acquainted as possible with that generation , or for the student of the history of our language and ...
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... poet laureat in the university of Oxen- ford . " The title of poet laureat did not then signify the same as is now understood by the term . It was not an office , but simply a " degree in grammar , which included rhetoric and ...
... poet laureat in the university of Oxen- ford . " The title of poet laureat did not then signify the same as is now understood by the term . It was not an office , but simply a " degree in grammar , which included rhetoric and ...
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... poet is to be trusted , the women of those days had marvellous swallows . One , " hight Sybil , " did " The pot to her pluck , To drink a good luck , And swinged up a quart At once for her part . " To us this piece seems to have been ...
... poet is to be trusted , the women of those days had marvellous swallows . One , " hight Sybil , " did " The pot to her pluck , To drink a good luck , And swinged up a quart At once for her part . " To us this piece seems to have been ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 226 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Página 92 - I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of God upon these barbarous wretches, who have imbrued their hands in so much innocent blood ; and that it will tend to prevent the effusion of blood for the future. Which are the satisfactory grounds to such actions, which otherwise cannot but work remorse and regret.
Página 254 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. "But not the praise...
Página 224 - When you kissed your lily hands to your lemans today; And to-morrow shall the fox, from her chambers in the rocks, Lead forth her tawny cubs to howl above the prey. Where be your tongues that late...
Página 249 - Whep he saw a gasping knight lie there, With a gash beneath his clotted hair, And a hump upon his shoulder. And the loyal churchman strove in vain . To mutter a Pater...
Página 19 - I judge this to be true, and utter it with heaviness, — that neither the Britons under the Romans and Saxons, nor yet the English people under the Danes and Normans, had ever such damage of their learned monuments, as we have seen in our time. Our posterity may well curse this wicked fact of our age, this unreasonable spoil of England's most noble antiquities."* 4.
Página 206 - O Printing! how hast thou disturbed the peace of mankind! That lead, when moulded into bullets, is not so mortal, as when founded into letters. There was a mistake, sure, in the story of Cadmus; and the serpent's teeth, which he sowed, were nothing else but the letters which he invented.
Página 225 - Some books also may be read by deputy and extracts made of them by others but that would be only in the less important arguments and the meaner sort of books else distilled books are like common distilled waters flashy things.
Página 249 - And the Priest was ready to vomit, When he hauled out a gentleman, fine and fat, With a belly as big as a brimming vat, And a nose as red as a comet. " A capital stew," the Fisherman said,
Página 83 - Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul!