Tales and Popular Fictions: Their Resemblance and Transmission from Country to Country, Том 1Whittaker, 1834 - 354 стор. |
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Сторінка 20 - As when from mountain-tops the dusky clouds Ascending, while the north-wind sleeps, o'erspread Heaven's cheerful face, the lowering element Scowls o'er the darkened landskip snow or shower : If chance the radiant sun with farewell sweet Extend his evening beam, the fields revive, The birds their notes renew, and bleating herds Attest their joy, that hill and valley rings.
Сторінка 17 - was pierc'd With the remembrance of a grievous wrong, Or slow distemper, or neglected love, (And so, poor wretch! fill'd all things with himself, And made all gentle sounds tell back the tale Of his own sorrow,) he, and such as he, First named these notes a melancholy strain, And many a poet echoes the conceit
Сторінка 32 - Depicted was the patriarchal age ; What time Dan Abraham left the Chaldee land And pastured on from verdant stage to stage, Where fields and fountains fresh could best engage. Toil was not then: of nothing took they heed But with wild beasts the silvan war to wage, And o'er vast plains their herds and
Сторінка 23 - But knowledge is as food, and needs no less Her temperance over appetite, to know In measure what the mind may well contain; Oppresses else with surfeit, and soon turns Wisdom to folly, as nourishment to wind.
Сторінка 245 - AD 1613), the Citizen says to the Prologue, " Why could not you be contented as well as others with the Legend of Whittington ? or the Life and Death of Sir Thomas Gresham, with the Building of the Royal Exchange ? or the story of Queen Eleanor, with the Rearing of London Bridge upon Woolsacks ?
Сторінка 205 - walking backwards and forwards in the next room, and saying to himself, " Though here you lodge with me this night, You shall not see the morning light, My club shall dash your brains out quite.
Сторінка 25 - on a sudden open fly, With impetuous recoil and jarring sound, The infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder,"—
Сторінка 27 - Forth flourished thick the clustering vine, forth crept The swelling gourd, up stood the corny reed Embattled in her field, and the humble shrub And bush with frizzled hair implicit.
Сторінка 304 - so horsly and so quik of eye, As it a gentil Poileis courser were ; For certes fro his tayl unto his ere Nature ne art ne coud him not amend In no degree, as all the peple wend.
Сторінка 245 - or the Life and Death of Sir Thomas Gresham, with the Building of the Royal Exchange ? or the story of Queen Eleanor, with the Rearing of London Bridge upon Woolsacks ?