The Poetry and Poets of Britain: From Chaucer to Tennyson ; with Biographical Sketches, and a Rapid View of the Characteristic Attributes of EachA. & C. Black, 1850 - 544 стор. |
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... mean element among the causes that have evolved our modern literature . Chaucer himself may be ranked among at least his well - wishers . See the notice of Chaucer , pp . 1 , 2 . far behind the continental nations . The contemporaries ...
... mean element among the causes that have evolved our modern literature . Chaucer himself may be ranked among at least his well - wishers . See the notice of Chaucer , pp . 1 , 2 . far behind the continental nations . The contemporaries ...
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... means of popular We have taken two hundred years to begin to understand Shakspeare , for the prin- ciples of his criticism promulgated by Schlegel and Coleridge have but opened the mine , whose surface - ground the pickaxes of former ...
... means of popular We have taken two hundred years to begin to understand Shakspeare , for the prin- ciples of his criticism promulgated by Schlegel and Coleridge have but opened the mine , whose surface - ground the pickaxes of former ...
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... mean merit : most of the passages from the period in the following selections are examples of this . For the sacred poetry of this cen- tury , see an interesting article on the subject in Blackwood's Magazine , No. 241. Writers even who ...
... mean merit : most of the passages from the period in the following selections are examples of this . For the sacred poetry of this cen- tury , see an interesting article on the subject in Blackwood's Magazine , No. 241. Writers even who ...
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... mean for the free and ardent footsteps of the muse's walk ; and the humble cottager , his hopes , and fears , and fates , nay , his grass plot and his faithful dog , shared with the scutcheoned baron and the towered palace the ardour of ...
... mean for the free and ardent footsteps of the muse's walk ; and the humble cottager , his hopes , and fears , and fates , nay , his grass plot and his faithful dog , shared with the scutcheoned baron and the towered palace the ardour of ...
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... mean coroner ; it is spelt also comptour , ( French , comp teur , ) and may mean accountant or steward of the hundred to which he belonged . 10 Probably a middling landholder . 11 Skinner says from parischon , ecclesiastes ; Barb . Lat ...
... mean coroner ; it is spelt also comptour , ( French , comp teur , ) and may mean accountant or steward of the hundred to which he belonged . 10 Probably a middling landholder . 11 Skinner says from parischon , ecclesiastes ; Barb . Lat ...
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Сторінка 114 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them ? — To die, — to sleep, — No more ; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, — 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, — to sleep ; — To sleep ! perchance to dream : — ay, there's the rub ; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come. When we have shuffled off this mortal...
Сторінка 522 - We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we...
Сторінка 103 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge ; And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deafning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes ? Canst thou, O partial sleep!
Сторінка 114 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Сторінка 103 - I have pass'da miserable night, So full of fearful dreams, of ugly sights, That, as I am a Christian faithful man, I would not spend another such a night, Though 'twere to buy a world of happy days : So full of dismal terror was the time.
Сторінка 186 - Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.
Сторінка 365 - THERE was a time when meadow, grove and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore ; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
Сторінка 174 - For, if such holy song Enwrap our fancy long, Time will run back and fetch the age of gold; And speckled Vanity Will sicken soon and die, And leprous Sin will melt from earthly mould...
Сторінка 242 - And unburied remain Inglorious on the plain : Give the vengeance due To the valiant crew ! Behold how they toss their torches on high, How they point to the Persian abodes And glittering temples of their hostile gods.
Сторінка 200 - Though hard and rare : thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp ; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.