Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England: With Specimens of the Principal WritersCharles Knight, 1845 - English language |
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... give from the latter work , we will add here another of Sackville's delineations : - : - And , next in order , sad OLD AGE we found , His beard all hoar , his eyes hollow and blind , With drooping cheer still poring on the ground , As ...
... give from the latter work , we will add here another of Sackville's delineations : - : - And , next in order , sad OLD AGE we found , His beard all hoar , his eyes hollow and blind , With drooping cheer still poring on the ground , As ...
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... gives the following account : - " A pardoner and a friar have each obtained leave of the curate to use his church , —the one for the exhibition of his relics , and the other for the de- livery of a sermon - the object of both being the ...
... gives the following account : - " A pardoner and a friar have each obtained leave of the curate to use his church , —the one for the exhibition of his relics , and the other for the de- livery of a sermon - the object of both being the ...
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... give , as a specimen of the language of Gammer Gurton's Needle , the following introductory speech to the First Act , which is put into the mouth of a character called Diccon the Bedlam , —that is , one of those mendicants who affected ...
... give , as a specimen of the language of Gammer Gurton's Needle , the following introductory speech to the First Act , which is put into the mouth of a character called Diccon the Bedlam , —that is , one of those mendicants who affected ...
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... gives any indi- ing the first publication of Tom Tiler and his Wife to the year 1578 , Mr. Collier professes to follow Ritson ( Ancient Songs , ii . 31 , edit . 1829 ) , who , he observes , was no doubt as correct as usual . But ...
... gives any indi- ing the first publication of Tom Tiler and his Wife to the year 1578 , Mr. Collier professes to follow Ritson ( Ancient Songs , ii . 31 , edit . 1829 ) , who , he observes , was no doubt as correct as usual . But ...
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... give an impulse to the national taste and genius in this depart- ment . There is extant an old English printed version , in rhyme , of the Andria of Terence , which , although without date , is believed to have been published before ...
... give an impulse to the national taste and genius in this depart- ment . There is extant an old English printed version , in rhyme , of the Andria of Terence , which , although without date , is believed to have been published before ...
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Page 118 - Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime. We would sit down and think which way To walk, and pass our long love's day; Thou by the Indian Ganges' side Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide Of Humber would complain. I would Love you ten years before the Flood; And you should, if you please, refuse Till the conversion of the Jews.
Page 28 - Our hearts with loyal flames ; When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths and draughts go free, Fishes that tipple in the deep Know no such liberty.
Page 101 - All in a moment through the gloom were seen Ten thousand banners rise into the air With orient colours waving...
Page 105 - 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 amorist or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite...
Page 118 - But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near, And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.
Page 56 - With a refined traveller of Spain; A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain : One, whom the music of his own vain tongue Doth ravish, like enchanting harmony...
Page 114 - Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Page 77 - Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances. Shakespeare...
Page 49 - Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone : regard his hellish fall, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise Only to wonder at unlawful things, Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits To practise more than heavenly power permits.
Page 120 - Gather the flowers, but spare the buds; Lest Flora, angry at thy crime, To kill her infants in their prime, Do quickly make th' example yours; And, ere we see, Nip in the blossom all our hopes and thee.