Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History Critical and Biographical of Authors in the English Tongue from the Earliest Times Till the Present Day, with Specimens of Their Writing, Volume 1W. & R. Chambers, 1901 - Authors, English |
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... began to appear before the close of 1842 , was completed in two volumes in 1844 , and was brought down to date and reprinted in 1858. It was revised and extended under the charge of Dr Carruthers in 1876 ; and a fourth reissue , again ...
... began to appear before the close of 1842 , was completed in two volumes in 1844 , and was brought down to date and reprinted in 1858. It was revised and extended under the charge of Dr Carruthers in 1876 ; and a fourth reissue , again ...
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... began to act on us again at the end of the eighteenth century , and at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth the Gaelic spirit is doing much the same kind of work it did in England during the seventh and eighth ...
... began to act on us again at the end of the eighteenth century , and at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth the Gaelic spirit is doing much the same kind of work it did in England during the seventh and eighth ...
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... began among the northern Cymry ( and the first records of which are to be found embedded in the compilation which goes under the name of Nennius - the Historia Britonum ) , came to South Wales , it got from thence into Brittany , was ...
... began among the northern Cymry ( and the first records of which are to be found embedded in the compilation which goes under the name of Nennius - the Historia Britonum ) , came to South Wales , it got from thence into Brittany , was ...
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... began in the ancient Engle - land while Britain was still a Roman province . Of this heathen poetry on the Continent we have still some fragments left . Portions of the mythical sagas , founded on the doings of nature and of the ...
... began in the ancient Engle - land while Britain was still a Roman province . Of this heathen poetry on the Continent we have still some fragments left . Portions of the mythical sagas , founded on the doings of nature and of the ...
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... began to make verse , we may fairly say , between 660 and 670 . We know the date of his death - 680 ; and we are told that he was somewhat advanced in years when the gift of song came upon him . We first find him as a secular attendant ...
... began to make verse , we may fairly say , between 660 and 670 . We know the date of his death - 680 ; and we are told that he was somewhat advanced in years when the gift of song came upon him . We first find him as a secular attendant ...
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Page 368 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves ; And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him, When he comes back ; you demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites ; and you, whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms...
Page 356 - This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands, — This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, Fear'd by their breed, and famous by their birth...
Page 362 - Harry, I do not only marvel where thou spendest thy time, but also how thou art accompanied : for though the camomile, the more it is trodden on the faster it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted the sooner it wears.
Page 368 - Dis's waggon! daffodils That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath...
Page 355 - So many hours must I tend my flock; So many hours must I take my rest; So many hours must I contemplate; So many hours must I sport myself...
Page 358 - Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace.
Page 349 - A gown made of the finest wool, Which from our pretty lambs we pull, Fair lined slippers for the cold, With buckles of the purest gold. ' A belt of straw and ivy buds With coral clasps and amber studs : And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me and be my Love.
Page 362 - A made a finer end, and went away, an it had been any christom child ; 'a parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide : for after I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers, and smile upon his fingers...
Page 349 - Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten: In folly ripe, in reason rotten. Thy belt of straw and ivy buds, Thy coral clasps and amber studs, All these in me no means can move To come to thee, and be thy love.
Page 408 - And joyed to wear the dressing of his lines ! Which were so richly spun, and woven so fit, As, since, she will vouchsafe no other wit. The merry Greek, tart Aristophanes, Neat Terence, witty Plautus, now not please ; But antiquated and deserted lie, As they were not of nature's family. Yet must I not give nature all ; thy art, My gentle SHAKESPEARE, must enjoy a part.