The Cambridge History of English Literature, Volume 14

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Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller
G.P. Putnam's sons, 1917 - English literature
 

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Page 486 - Waller was smooth ; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full-resounding line, The long majestic march, and energy divine.
Page 33 - Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion ; during which the matter passes from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity ; and during •which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation.
Page 564 - Lives of the Queens of Scotland, and English Princesses connected with the Regal Succession of Great Britain.
Page 509 - ... broken purpose waste in air : So waste not thou ; but come ; for all the vales Await thee; azure pillars of the hearth Arise to thee ; the children call, and I Thy shepherd pipe, and sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet; Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro' the lawn, The moan of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees.
Page 490 - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault.
Page 248 - REAL LIFE IN LONDON : or, the Rambles and Adventures of Bob Tallyho, Esq., and his Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall. By an Amateur (Pierce Egan). With 31 Coloured Plates by Alken and Rowlandson, etc.
Page 556 - Sharon Turner's History of the AngloSaxons, from the Earliest Period to the Norman Conquest.
Page 601 - LIFE IN LONDON : or, the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq., and his Elegant Friend, Corinthian Tom.
Page 417 - Afar in the desert I love to ride, With the silent Bush-boy alone by my side.
Page 96 - History of England from the Accession of James I. to the Disgrace of Chief Justice Coke

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