A Popular Manual of English Literature: Containing Outlines of the Literature of France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United States of America, Volume 1 |
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... original source of knowl- edge regarding the earliest times in England , and the " Pastoral Rule , " by Pope Gregory . His writings have been pronounced " the purest specimens of Anglo - Saxon prose . " His exam- wearethe ple doubtless ...
... original source of knowl- edge regarding the earliest times in England , and the " Pastoral Rule , " by Pope Gregory . His writings have been pronounced " the purest specimens of Anglo - Saxon prose . " His exam- wearethe ple doubtless ...
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... original portraits the poet appears on horseback , and is represented as short of stat- ure , according to the description of himself given in " The Canterbury Tales . " The other was drawn by Occleve , on the margin of one of his own ...
... original portraits the poet appears on horseback , and is represented as short of stat- ure , according to the description of himself given in " The Canterbury Tales . " The other was drawn by Occleve , on the margin of one of his own ...
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... original work , " The Canterbury Tales " -an incomplete . poem consisting of 17,385 lines . Of the twenty - five tales , all are in verse , except those of the Parson and Melibus ; while the unfinished tales are the Cook's , the ...
... original work , " The Canterbury Tales " -an incomplete . poem consisting of 17,385 lines . Of the twenty - five tales , all are in verse , except those of the Parson and Melibus ; while the unfinished tales are the Cook's , the ...
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... original work , " The Canterbury Tales " —an incomplete poem consisting of 17,385 lines . Of the twenty - five tales , all are in verse , except those of the Parson and Melibus ; while the unfinished tales are the Cook's , the Squire's ...
... original work , " The Canterbury Tales " —an incomplete poem consisting of 17,385 lines . Of the twenty - five tales , all are in verse , except those of the Parson and Melibus ; while the unfinished tales are the Cook's , the Squire's ...
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... original treatment of the sub- ject seems to have been the poem of Sainte - Maure , which formed the foundation for the prose romance of Colonna's and Boccaccio's " Filostrato , " from which Chaucer drew his materials . Selected ...
... original treatment of the sub- ject seems to have been the poem of Sainte - Maure , which formed the foundation for the prose romance of Colonna's and Boccaccio's " Filostrato , " from which Chaucer drew his materials . Selected ...
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Page 159 - Sweet Swan of Avon ! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our James...
Page 255 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Page 159 - Muses : For if I thought my judgment were of years, I should commit thee surely with thy peers, And tell how far thou didst our Lyly outshine. Or sporting Kyd, or Marlowe's mighty line.
Page 347 - ALL human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey. This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, young Was called to empire, and had governed long. In prose and verse was owned, without dispute, Through all the realms of Nonsense absolute.
Page 162 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Page 449 - And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works, he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy. But when, or where ? This world was made for Caesar.
Page 457 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Page 159 - Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give.
Page 203 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul, All the images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Page 152 - Jesus' sake forbeare To dig the dust enclosed here. Blessed be he that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones.