A Manual of English Literature: A Text Book for Schools and CollegesEldredge & Brother, 1872 - 636 páginas |
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... Poems . -The other poems of Chaucer are , The Romaunt of the Rose ; Tro- ilus and Crescide ; The Court of Love ; The Complaint of Pily ; Queen Annelida and False Arcite ; The Assembly of Forls , sometimes called the Parliament of Birds ...
... Poems . -The other poems of Chaucer are , The Romaunt of the Rose ; Tro- ilus and Crescide ; The Court of Love ; The Complaint of Pily ; Queen Annelida and False Arcite ; The Assembly of Forls , sometimes called the Parliament of Birds ...
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... poems , represents Venus as saying : " And greet well Chaucer when ye meet , As my disciple and my poete . " And again Chaucer , in one of his early poems , makes the following dedication to Gower : " O moral Gower ! this boke I direct ...
... poems , represents Venus as saying : " And greet well Chaucer when ye meet , As my disciple and my poete . " And again Chaucer , in one of his early poems , makes the following dedication to Gower : " O moral Gower ! this boke I direct ...
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... poems , the authorship of which is disputed . History of James . - James , while yet a boy of ten , was taken ... poem already named . The royal prisoner , now in the prime of manhood , glowing with honorable sentiments , and excluded ...
... poems , the authorship of which is disputed . History of James . - James , while yet a boy of ten , was taken ... poem already named . The royal prisoner , now in the prime of manhood , glowing with honorable sentiments , and excluded ...
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... poems began to attract attention about the middle of the last century , and since that time his fame has been ... poems are divided into three classes : The Allegorical , the Moral , and the Comic . His chief alle- gorical poems are The ...
... poems began to attract attention about the middle of the last century , and since that time his fame has been ... poems are divided into three classes : The Allegorical , the Moral , and the Comic . His chief alle- gorical poems are The ...
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... poems are entirely satirical , and have many of the characteristics of Dunbar's satires . They are vituperative and ... Poems . His other poems are The Dream , The Complaint of the King's Papingo , Kittie's Confession , The History of ...
... poems are entirely satirical , and have many of the characteristics of Dunbar's satires . They are vituperative and ... Poems . His other poems are The Dream , The Complaint of the King's Papingo , Kittie's Confession , The History of ...
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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...