A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged from Sir John Mandeville to William Cowper ... |
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... FAME . This is represented under the form of a dream , and consists of three books . It abounds in lively and vigorous description , in dis- quisitions on natural philosophy , and in sketches of human nature of no com mon beauty . The ...
... FAME . This is represented under the form of a dream , and consists of three books . It abounds in lively and vigorous description , in dis- quisitions on natural philosophy , and in sketches of human nature of no com mon beauty . The ...
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... Fame , Hines 11-18 . • Read- " Clarke's Tales from Chaucer , " written in imitation of Lamb's " Tales from Shakspeare , ” and Clarke's " Riches of Chaucer . " Also , a critique upon Chaucer in the Retrospective Review , ix . 173 ; and ...
... Fame , Hines 11-18 . • Read- " Clarke's Tales from Chaucer , " written in imitation of Lamb's " Tales from Shakspeare , ” and Clarke's " Riches of Chaucer . " Also , a critique upon Chaucer in the Retrospective Review , ix . 173 ; and ...
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... fame since then has been continually rising . His chief poems are THE THISTLE AND THE ROSE , THE DANCE , and THE GOLDEN TERGE . The Thistle and the Rose was occasioned by the marriage of James IV . of Scot- land with Margaret Tudor ...
... fame since then has been continually rising . His chief poems are THE THISTLE AND THE ROSE , THE DANCE , and THE GOLDEN TERGE . The Thistle and the Rose was occasioned by the marriage of James IV . of Scot- land with Margaret Tudor ...
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... fame of Honesty , I thought that I should not lose my labor wholly if now I did something advertise you to take the sure foundations and stablished opinions that leadeth to honesty . And here , I call not Honesty that , men commonly ...
... fame of Honesty , I thought that I should not lose my labor wholly if now I did something advertise you to take the sure foundations and stablished opinions that leadeth to honesty . And here , I call not Honesty that , men commonly ...
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... fame , and studious of literary excellence : but he beheld it in others without envy . His own genius was of a moral and contemplative cast . His noble mind never stooped to any thing that would inflame passion , or solicit improper ...
... fame , and studious of literary excellence : but he beheld it in others without envy . His own genius was of a moral and contemplative cast . His noble mind never stooped to any thing that would inflame passion , or solicit improper ...
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Page 638 - Two things have I required of thee ; deny me them not before I die. Remove far from me vanity and lies ; give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me : lest I be full and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord ? or lest I be poor and steal, and take the name- of my God in vain.
Page 596 - THE Curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds : Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient...
Page 352 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Page 752 - I heard the bell tolled on thy burial day, I saw the hearse, that bore thee, slow, away, And turning from my nursery window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu ! But was it such ? — It was. — Where thou art gone, Adieus and farewells are a sound unknown. May I but meet thee on that peaceful shore, The parting word shall pass my lips no more ! Thy maidens, grieved themselves at my concern, Oft gave me promise of thy quick return.
Page 161 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Page 243 - Closed o'er the head of your loved Lycidas? For neither were ye playing on the steep, Where your old bards, the famous Druids, lie, Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream: 55 Ay me, I fondly dream! Had ye been there: for what could that have done?
Page 597 - The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...
Page 649 - Is not a patron, My Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?
Page 137 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries ; but thou hast forc'd me Out of thy honest truth to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes : and thus far hear me, Cromwell $ And,— when I am forgotten, as I shall be ; And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, — say, I taught thee...
Page 394 - When I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.