Cyclopędia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from the Earliest to the Present Time, Connected by a Critical and Biographical History ...Robert Chambers Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1847 - English literature |
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... seen . Of so much folk nyme the cross , ne to the holy land go , Me ne see no time before , ne suth nathemo.5 For self women ne beleved , 6 that they ne wend thither fast , Ne young folk [ that ] feeble were , the while the voy- age y ...
... seen . Of so much folk nyme the cross , ne to the holy land go , Me ne see no time before , ne suth nathemo.5 For self women ne beleved , 6 that they ne wend thither fast , Ne young folk [ that ] feeble were , the while the voy- age y ...
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... seen . The destruction of the Royal Manor at Woodstock , and the subsequent erection of Blenheim , have changed the appearance of this classic ground ; but the poet's morning walk may still be traced , and some venerable oaks that may ...
... seen . The destruction of the Royal Manor at Woodstock , and the subsequent erection of Blenheim , have changed the appearance of this classic ground ; but the poet's morning walk may still be traced , and some venerable oaks that may ...
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... seen The earl and all his men , bedeen , Faucht sae stoutly , but effraying , Richt as they had nae abasing ; Them pressit they with all their micht . And they , with spears and swerds bricht , And axes , that richt sharply share I'mids ...
... seen The earl and all his men , bedeen , Faucht sae stoutly , but effraying , Richt as they had nae abasing ; Them pressit they with all their micht . And they , with spears and swerds bricht , And axes , that richt sharply share I'mids ...
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... seen , Gif nought but he full gude had been . ' St Serf the devil askit than , ' Where God made Adam , the first man ? ' ' In Ebron Adam formit was , ' St Serf said . And til him Sathanas , ' Where was he , eft that , for his vice , He ...
... seen , Gif nought but he full gude had been . ' St Serf the devil askit than , ' Where God made Adam , the first man ? ' ' In Ebron Adam formit was , ' St Serf said . And til him Sathanas , ' Where was he , eft that , for his vice , He ...
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... seen on thee or on thy seed . ' The king gart 3 charge they should the bishop ta , But sad lords counsellit to let him ga . All Englishmen said that his desire was richt . To Wallace then he rakit in their sicht And sadly heard his ...
... seen on thee or on thy seed . ' The king gart 3 charge they should the bishop ta , But sad lords counsellit to let him ga . All Englishmen said that his desire was richt . To Wallace then he rakit in their sicht And sadly heard his ...
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Page 188 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players : They have their exits and their entrances ; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Page 188 - Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, — The seasons' difference : as the icy fang And churlish chiding of the winter's wind, Which when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile and say, This is no flattery : these are counsellors That feelingly persuade me what I am.
Page 399 - I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man, as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image : but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Page 328 - Go, lovely rose, Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died.
Page 187 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice...
Page 105 - This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall : Lord of himself, though not of lands, And, having nothing, yet hath all.
Page 332 - The Oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving : No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
Page 398 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite ; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that eternal spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 184 - The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not mov'd with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils ; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus : Let no such man be trusted.
Page 185 - Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest — For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men — Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral. He was my friend, faithful and just to me: But Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man.