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... known predecessors , and has the whole literature of romance for successors then without attributing to it merits which it cannot claim , or muddling it up with myths which simply minish its interest , we shall see that it is a very ...
... known predecessors , and has the whole literature of romance for successors then without attributing to it merits which it cannot claim , or muddling it up with myths which simply minish its interest , we shall see that it is a very ...
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... known to his time . He was for Eng- land what Cassiodorus was for Italy and St. Isidore for Spain . But he had , in ad- dition , an influence and echo beyond his own country which has been surpassed by none : his influence upon ...
... known to his time . He was for Eng- land what Cassiodorus was for Italy and St. Isidore for Spain . But he had , in ad- dition , an influence and echo beyond his own country which has been surpassed by none : his influence upon ...
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... known anything . - TAINE , H. A. , 1871 , History of English Literature , tr . Van Laun , vol . I , p . 50 . The Anglo - Saxon translations as- cribed to Alfred are among the best specimens of Anglo - Saxon prose.- CORSON , HIRAM , 1871 ...
... known anything . - TAINE , H. A. , 1871 , History of English Literature , tr . Van Laun , vol . I , p . 50 . The Anglo - Saxon translations as- cribed to Alfred are among the best specimens of Anglo - Saxon prose.- CORSON , HIRAM , 1871 ...
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... known by his " History of England to the Death of Stephen , " founded to a large extent upon Bede and Geoffrey of Monmouth , and edited by Sir Henry Savile in 1596 . It was translated in 1853 by Thomas Forrester . Henry wrote on " The ...
... known by his " History of England to the Death of Stephen , " founded to a large extent upon Bede and Geoffrey of Monmouth , and edited by Sir Henry Savile in 1596 . It was translated in 1853 by Thomas Forrester . Henry wrote on " The ...
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... known as the " His- toria Saxonum vel Anglorum post obitum . Bedæ . " This chronicle was compiled from the histories of Simeon of Durham and Henry of Huntingdon . Roger of Hoveden added to this an account of the miracles of Edward the ...
... known as the " His- toria Saxonum vel Anglorum post obitum . Bedæ . " This chronicle was compiled from the histories of Simeon of Durham and Henry of Huntingdon . Roger of Hoveden added to this an account of the miracles of Edward the ...
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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...