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... imagination , that the world for ages after seems to have been at a loss what to make of it . It was not easy , even ... imaginative pen . GAIRDNER , JAMES , 1879 , Early Chroniclers of Europe , England , p . 157 . Dear old Geoffrey of ...
... imagination , that the world for ages after seems to have been at a loss what to make of it . It was not easy , even ... imaginative pen . GAIRDNER , JAMES , 1879 , Early Chroniclers of Europe , England , p . 157 . Dear old Geoffrey of ...
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... imagination for these . He found Old English of even the tenth century hard to translate , and makes astounding mis- takes in rendering the Battle of Brunan- burh . He is important in the develop- ment of historical writing as the last ...
... imagination for these . He found Old English of even the tenth century hard to translate , and makes astounding mis- takes in rendering the Battle of Brunan- burh . He is important in the develop- ment of historical writing as the last ...
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... imagination that it hardly ever fades from it , while Douglas's personages are almost all shadowy phantasms , roces ... imaginative mind was free from monastic bonds , it must have met with great quantities of such material ; Chaucer ...
... imagination that it hardly ever fades from it , while Douglas's personages are almost all shadowy phantasms , roces ... imaginative mind was free from monastic bonds , it must have met with great quantities of such material ; Chaucer ...
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... imagination , with the homely sagacity , and healthy relish for all the realities of things ; the unrivalled tenderness and pathos , with the quaintest humor and the most ex- uberant merriment ; the wisdom at once and the wit ; the all ...
... imagination , with the homely sagacity , and healthy relish for all the realities of things ; the unrivalled tenderness and pathos , with the quaintest humor and the most ex- uberant merriment ; the wisdom at once and the wit ; the all ...
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... imagination . It is true that his uncouth and unfamiliar language disgusts and deters many readers ; but the principal reason of his being so little . known , and so seldom taken in hand , is the convenient opportunity of reading him ...
... imagination . It is true that his uncouth and unfamiliar language disgusts and deters many readers ; but the principal reason of his being so little . known , and so seldom taken in hand , is the convenient opportunity of reading him ...
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Page 468 - Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit, or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry, Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream.
Page 561 - SHAKESPEARE Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask — Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge. For the loftiest hill, Who to the stars uncrowns his majesty, Planting his steadfast footsteps in the sea, Making the heaven of heavens his dwellingplace, Spares but the cloudy border of his base To the...
Page 552 - This pencil take (she said), whose colours clear Richly paint the vernal year : Thine, too, these golden keys, immortal Boy! This can unlock the gates of Joy; Of Horror that, and thrilling Fears, Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic Tears.
Page 480 - I shall despair. — There is no creature loves me ; And, if I die, no soul will pity me : — Nay, wherefore should they ? since that I myself Find in myself no pity to myself.
Page 7 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book : who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book. kills reason itself; kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Page 377 - The generall end, therefore, of all the booke, is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline...
Page 548 - I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, Would he had blotted a thousand.
Page 522 - Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume.
Page 547 - As the soul of Euphorbus was thought to live in Pythagoras: so the sweet witty soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous and honey-tongued Shakespeare, witness his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugared Sonnets among his private friends, fyc.
Page 548 - ... ordain'd otherwise, and he by death departed from that right, we pray you do not envie his friends the office of their care and paine...