English LiteratureAllyn and Bacon, 1918 - 397 páginas |
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... father was no hindrance to social aspirations ; and at the age of seventeen Geoffrey was attached to a royal household that of Lionel , Duke of Clarence , third son of Edward III . Although there is no evidence regarding the character ...
... father was no hindrance to social aspirations ; and at the age of seventeen Geoffrey was attached to a royal household that of Lionel , Duke of Clarence , third son of Edward III . Although there is no evidence regarding the character ...
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... father of modern English prose ; 99 a not undeserved title if , as one writer says , he The newe Testa ment yet once agayne corected by Wil Iyam Tindale : where vnto is added a necellarpe Lable : wherin cafely and ughtelyemaye be foude ...
... father of modern English prose ; 99 a not undeserved title if , as one writer says , he The newe Testa ment yet once agayne corected by Wil Iyam Tindale : where vnto is added a necellarpe Lable : wherin cafely and ughtelyemaye be foude ...
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... father's death . He began the practice of law , and became a member of parliament ; but believing from the first that influence was necessary to advancement , he sought the favor of his kins- man , Lord Burghley . When Essex replaced ...
... father's death . He began the practice of law , and became a member of parliament ; but believing from the first that influence was necessary to advancement , he sought the favor of his kins- man , Lord Burghley . When Essex replaced ...
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... father's name appears in the Stratford records in sixteen different forms , and the six authentic signatures of his own seem to show three forms . The spelling here adopted is used by Professors Dowden , Wendell , and Kittredge , and by ...
... father's name appears in the Stratford records in sixteen different forms , and the six authentic signatures of his own seem to show three forms . The spelling here adopted is used by Professors Dowden , Wendell , and Kittredge , and by ...
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... father died in 1601 ; his mother in 1608. That the poet himself spent his last years in Stratford is known from various references to him in the town records ; but when or why he retired per- manently from his London occupations of ...
... father died in 1601 ; his mother in 1608. That the poet himself spent his last years in Stratford is known from various references to him in the town records ; but when or why he retired per- manently from his London occupations of ...
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Página 380 - If I should die, think only this of me : That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed ; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam, A body of England's, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home. And think, this heart, all evil shed...
Página 321 - That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work, that, as a mechanism, it is capable of...
Página 253 - On a poet's lips I slept Dreaming like a love-adept In the sound his breathing kept; Nor seeks nor finds he mortal blisses, But feeds on the aerial kisses Of shapes that haunt thought's wildernesses.
Página 128 - Tis resolved, for Nature pleads that he Should only rule who most resembles me. Shadwell alone my perfect image bears, Mature in dulness from his tender years ; Shadwell alone of all my sons is he Who stands confirmed in full stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense.
Página 111 - And that must end us ; that must be our cure, To be no more : sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity., To perish rather, swallow'd up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion?
Página 110 - They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand ; the gate With dreadful faces thronged, and fiery arms.
Página 346 - The year's at the spring And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn: God's in his heaven — All's right with the world!
Página 101 - Mortals, that would follow me, Love virtue; she alone is free. She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her.
Página 232 - Humble and rustic life was generally chosen, because, in that condition, the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language...
Página 29 - Of court, and been estatlich of manere, And to ben holden digne of reverence. But, for to speken of hir conscience, She was so charitable and so pitous, She wolde wepe, if that she sawe a mous Caught in a trappe, if it were deed or bledde.