The Story of English Literature for Young Readers: Chaucer to CowperEmphasizes the life, times and influence of great authors from the 14th to 18th centuries. Includes Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Bacon, Milton, Bunyan, Dryden, Addison and Steele, Pope, and Dr. Samuel Johnson. |
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... poor were invited . The maidens in the castles were often ladies of gentle birth sent also to to be improved by refined associations and to be well brought up ; they waited on the lady of the house , frequently performing men- ial ...
... poor were invited . The maidens in the castles were often ladies of gentle birth sent also to to be improved by refined associations and to be well brought up ; they waited on the lady of the house , frequently performing men- ial ...
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... poor way - farer riding up , no matter how un- known , was always given shelter and food if he asked it . In such ways a Christian spirit was thought to be shown ; but gradually the Burghers began to let out lodgings , and in the towns ...
... poor way - farer riding up , no matter how un- known , was always given shelter and food if he asked it . In such ways a Christian spirit was thought to be shown ; but gradually the Burghers began to let out lodgings , and in the towns ...
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... poor , litera- ture was not widely appreciated . There were some great students , but few books had been written which the people cared for . Religious stories and poems had been collected by the monks . Some beautiful ballads and ...
... poor , litera- ture was not widely appreciated . There were some great students , but few books had been written which the people cared for . Religious stories and poems had been collected by the monks . Some beautiful ballads and ...
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... poor Chaucer's condition . Richard had built Westminster Hall , and Palace ; and on the same grounds Chaucer rented a small dwell- ing where he went on with his literary work , the king granting him a pension . At this time he seems to ...
... poor Chaucer's condition . Richard had built Westminster Hall , and Palace ; and on the same grounds Chaucer rented a small dwell- ing where he went on with his literary work , the king granting him a pension . At this time he seems to ...
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... poor man who had studied much and who rode a very thin horse ; a sergeant of the law ; a haberdasher , or shop - keeper ; a weaver , dyer , and embroider of tap- estry ; a cook ; a shipman ; a doctor ; a good " Wife of Bath , " so ...
... poor man who had studied much and who rode a very thin horse ; a sergeant of the law ; a haberdasher , or shop - keeper ; a weaver , dyer , and embroider of tap- estry ; a cook ; a shipman ; a doctor ; a good " Wife of Bath , " so ...
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Page 151 - It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown. His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway : It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself, And earthly power doth then show likest God's, When mercy seasons justice.
Page 330 - The village master taught his little school. A man severe he was, and stern to view ; I knew him well, and every truant knew: Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he...
Page 269 - My chief companion, when Sir Roger is diverting himself in the woods or the fields, is a very venerable man who is ever with Sir Roger, and has lived at his house in the nature of a chaplain above thirty years. This gentleman is a person of good sense and some learning, of a very regular life and obliging conversation...
Page 269 - Some of them could not refrain from tears at the sight of their old master; every one of them pressed forward to do something for him, and seemed discouraged if they were not employed. At the same time the good old knight, with a mixture of the father and the master of the family, tempered the inquiries after his own affairs with several kind questions relating to themselves.
Page 323 - I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me.
Page 152 - It must not be; there is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established: 'Twill be recorded for a precedent; And many an error, by the same example, Will rush into the state: it cannot be.
Page 331 - For, e'en though vanquished, he could argue still, While words of learned length and thundering sound Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around; And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew That one small head could carry all he knew.
Page 204 - So on he fares, and to the border comes Of Eden, where delicious Paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her inclosure green, As with a rural mound, the champaign head Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied...
Page 151 - The quality of mercy is not strain'd, — It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath : it is twice bless'd, — It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest : it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown...
Page 323 - I received one morning a message from poor Goldsmith that he was in great distress, and as it was not in his power to come to me, begging that I would come to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly.