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Page 49
... noble instance of the enthusiasm of learned research . " The leisure hours of sixteen years " furnished a comprehensive history of which " two - thirds had not yet appeared . " - Mr . Turner's preface . VOL . I. E version if the ...
... noble instance of the enthusiasm of learned research . " The leisure hours of sixteen years " furnished a comprehensive history of which " two - thirds had not yet appeared . " - Mr . Turner's preface . VOL . I. E version if the ...
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... noble con- ceptions and the immortal designs of the Sistine Chapel . * These singular attempts at art may be inspected in above fifty plates , in the Archæologia , vol . xx . We may rejoice at their pre- servation , for art , even in ...
... noble con- ceptions and the immortal designs of the Sistine Chapel . * These singular attempts at art may be inspected in above fifty plates , in the Archæologia , vol . xx . We may rejoice at their pre- servation , for art , even in ...
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... noble patron at the English court , for they were English natives or English subjects , long concealed from posterity as Englishmen , by writing in French . It had then escaped the notice of our literary antiquaries at home and abroad ...
... noble patron at the English court , for they were English natives or English subjects , long concealed from posterity as Englishmen , by writing in French . It had then escaped the notice of our literary antiquaries at home and abroad ...
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... noble qualities which though now displaced have not always found equal substitutes . In the advancement of society we may count some losses . Destitute of a national education , the higher orders thus THE PAGE, THE BARON, AND THE MINSTREL.
... noble qualities which though now displaced have not always found equal substitutes . In the advancement of society we may count some losses . Destitute of a national education , the higher orders thus THE PAGE, THE BARON, AND THE MINSTREL.
Page 112
... noble " childe " from the day that he left the parental roof for the baronial hall of his patron . In these " nurseries of nobility , " as Jonson has well described such an institution , in his first charge as varlet or page , the boy ...
... noble " childe " from the day that he left the parental roof for the baronial hall of his patron . In these " nurseries of nobility , " as Jonson has well described such an institution , in his first charge as varlet or page , the boy ...
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Page 66 - And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness, unto the judgment of the great day.
Page 67 - Reserved him to more wrath; for now the thought Both of lost happiness and lasting pain Torments him : round he throws his baleful eyes, That...
Page 1 - But his learned and able (though unfortunate) successor, is he who hath filled up all numbers, and performed that in our tongue, which may be compared or preferred either to insolent Greece, or haughty Rome.
Page 69 - In billows, leave i' the midst a horrid vale. Then with expanded wings he steers his flight Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air That felt unusual weight, till on dry land He lights, if it were land that ever...
Page 307 - Piety displays Her mouldering roll, the piercing eye explores New manners, and the pomp of elder days, Whence culls the pensive bard his pictured stores. Nor rough nor barren are the winding ways Of hoar antiquity, but strown with flowers.
Page 72 - ... the Hebrew (and I think the Syriac), the Greek, the Latin, the Italian, Spanish, and French. All which sorts of books to be confined to read, without understanding one word, must needs be a trial of patience almost beyond endurance.
Page 133 - Phlegra with the heroic race were join'd That fought at Thebes and Ilium, on each side Mix'd with auxiliar gods ; and what resounds In fable or romance of Uther's son, Begirt with British and Armoric knights...
Page 267 - Chaucer, notwithstanding the praises bestowed on him, I think obscene and contemptible: — he owes his celebrity merely to his antiquity, which he does not deserve so well as Pierce Plowman, or Thomas of Ercildoune.
Page 78 - Misgave him; he the faltering measure felt; And forth to meet her went, the way she took That morn when first they parted: by the tree Of knowledge he must pass; there he her met, Scarce from the tree returning; in her hand A bough of fairest fruit, that downy smiled, New gather'd and ambrosial smell diffused.
Page 190 - The emancipation of the national language was subsequently confirmed by another monarch. A curious anecdote in our literary history has recently been disclosed of Henry V. To encourage the use of the vernacular tongue, this monarch, in a letter missive to one of the city companies, declared that '' the English tongue hath in modern days begun to be honourably enlarged and adorned, and for the better understanding of thepeople the common idiom should be exercised in writing:" this was at once setting...