From the age of Henry VIII to the age of MiltonMacmillan, 1903 - English literature |
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... piece . The perfect success of the author's method is evinced by the number of phrases which have found their way into literature as familiar quotations , selected by a process no less conclusive as to the infallibility of the general ...
... piece . The perfect success of the author's method is evinced by the number of phrases which have found their way into literature as familiar quotations , selected by a process no less conclusive as to the infallibility of the general ...
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... piece of bathos can have but scant claim to the quality of poet : while he may yet be able to express himself metrically with dignity and eloquence when his theme is entirely congenial to him . The following stanzas are from the ...
... piece of bathos can have but scant claim to the quality of poet : while he may yet be able to express himself metrically with dignity and eloquence when his theme is entirely congenial to him . The following stanzas are from the ...
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... piece with the horse , was no more moved than one with the going of his own legs ; and in effect so did he command him as his own limbs : for though he had both spurs and wand , they seemed rather marks of sovereignty than instruments ...
... piece with the horse , was no more moved than one with the going of his own legs ; and in effect so did he command him as his own limbs : for though he had both spurs and wand , they seemed rather marks of sovereignty than instruments ...
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... piece of writing , which forms the groundwork of Tennyson's famous ballad . In the following year he invested all the money he could raise in a naval expedition planned for the capture of a great treasure- laden Spanish carrack , and ...
... piece of writing , which forms the groundwork of Tennyson's famous ballad . In the following year he invested all the money he could raise in a naval expedition planned for the capture of a great treasure- laden Spanish carrack , and ...
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... pieces of his that have been preserved , he appears almost exclu- sively in the character of an occasional poet . He would probably stand higher but for the loss of his one sustained effort , the Cynthia . Even this was prompted by ...
... pieces of his that have been preserved , he appears almost exclu- sively in the character of an occasional poet . He would probably stand higher but for the loss of his one sustained effort , the Cynthia . Even this was prompted by ...
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Page 209 - I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool, With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news ; Who, with his shears and measure in his hand, Standing on slippers, (which his nimble haste Had falsely thrust upon contrary feet) Told of a many thousand warlike French, That were embattailed and rank'd in Kent.
Page 202 - He makes sweet music with the enamel'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage ; And so by many winding nooks he strays, With willing sport, to the wild ocean...
Page 35 - Wherefore, that here we may briefly end: of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world: all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power: both angels and men, and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.
Page 237 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Page 175 - Shall I make spirits fetch me what I please, Resolve me of all ambiguities, Perform what desperate enterprise I will? I'll have them fly to India for gold, Ransack the ocean for orient pearl, And search all corners of the new-found world For pleasant fruits and princely delicates...
Page 322 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! Heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtle flame As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life.
Page 269 - Shake hands for ever, cancel all our vows, And when we meet at any time again, Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain.
Page 183 - His golden locks Time hath to silver turned; O Time too swift, O swiftness never ceasing ! His youth 'gainst time and age hath ever spurned, But spurned in vain; youth waneth by increasing: Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen; Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green. His helmet now shall make a hive for bees; And lovers...
Page 16 - For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age.
Page 57 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jaeet ! Lastly, whereas this book, by the title it hath, calls itself The First Part of tlie General History of the World...