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... lived in the same moral atmosphere , and hence partake to some extent of the same general character . It has been deemdisable , therefore , in con- nection with most of the chapters , to indicate briefly the reigns and the great ...
... lived in the same moral atmosphere , and hence partake to some extent of the same general character . It has been deemdisable , therefore , in con- nection with most of the chapters , to indicate briefly the reigns and the great ...
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... lived in stirring times , being contemporary with Wyckliffe , John of Gaunt , the great Duke of Lancaster , Edward III . , the invader of France , and his son the Black Prince , the hero of Crecy and Poitiers . Chaucer was himself in ...
... lived in stirring times , being contemporary with Wyckliffe , John of Gaunt , the great Duke of Lancaster , Edward III . , the invader of France , and his son the Black Prince , the hero of Crecy and Poitiers . Chaucer was himself in ...
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... lived at court the latter part of his life , a dependent upon the royal bounty , and was not a little saddened and humiliated by the feeling of his dependence . His Works . - Dunbar was master of almost every kind of verse . His poems ...
... lived at court the latter part of his life , a dependent upon the royal bounty , and was not a little saddened and humiliated by the feeling of his dependence . His Works . - Dunbar was master of almost every kind of verse . His poems ...
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... lived in comfort under the hospitable roof of the Earl of Dorset . Chief Work . - Drayton's chief work was the Poly - Olbion , in 30 Songs or Cantos , and making 30,000 Alexandrian lines , rhyming in couplets . It is a topographical de ...
... lived in comfort under the hospitable roof of the Earl of Dorset . Chief Work . - Drayton's chief work was the Poly - Olbion , in 30 Songs or Cantos , and making 30,000 Alexandrian lines , rhyming in couplets . It is a topographical de ...
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... lived in peaceful seclusion , cultivating the muses . Ben Jonson visited him there . Drummond has the distinction of being the first Scottish poet that wrote in the pure English dialect . His poems are not numerous , but they are highly ...
... lived in peaceful seclusion , cultivating the muses . Ben Jonson visited him there . Drummond has the distinction of being the first Scottish poet that wrote in the pure English dialect . His poems are not numerous , but they are highly ...
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Página 273 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted 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 234 - Scriblerus was to have ridiculed all the false tastes in learning, under the character of a man of capacity enough ; that had dipped into every art and science, but injudiciously in each.
Página 209 - An apology for the true Christian divinity as the same is held forth and preached by the people called in scorn Quakers...
Página 428 - Life! we've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather ; 'Tis hard to part when friends are dear — Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear ; — Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time ; Say not Good Night, — but in some brighter clime Bid me Good Morning.
Página 130 - But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters' pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.
Página 130 - With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light: There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced choir below, In service high, and anthems clear, As may with sweetness through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes.
Página 78 - My ancestors are turned to clay, And many of my mates are gone ; My youngers daily drop away, And can I think to 'scape alone ? No, no, I know that I must die, And yet my life amend not I.
Página 319 - Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it a dull book, (as such books generally are,) and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch for me ; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry.
Página 98 - CXLVI. Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth, Fool'd by those rebel powers that thee array, Why dost thou pine within, and suffer dearth, Painting thy outward walls so costly gay ? Why so large cost, having so short a lease, Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend ? Shall worms, inheritors of this excess, Eat up thy charge ? Is this thy body's end ? Then, soul, live thou upon thy servant's loss, And let that pine to aggravate thy store ; Buy terms divine in selling hours of dross ; Within be fed,...
Página 62 - There is one that passeth all the other, and is the most diligent prelate and preacher in all England. And will ye know who it is? I will tell you: It is the devil. He is the most diligent preacher of all other ; he is never out of his diocese...