Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from the Earliest to the Present Time, Connected by a Critical and Biographical History, 第 1 卷Robert Chambers Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1849 |
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... 594 How to be Reputed a Wise Man , 640 595 Avarice , 640 • 596 Minister Acquiring and Losing Office , 641 • 597 Receipt to make an Epic Poem , • 641 Absurdity of Useless Learning , Human Life , • LADY IV CONTENTS OF FIRST VOLUME .
... 594 How to be Reputed a Wise Man , 640 595 Avarice , 640 • 596 Minister Acquiring and Losing Office , 641 • 597 Receipt to make an Epic Poem , • 641 Absurdity of Useless Learning , Human Life , • LADY IV CONTENTS OF FIRST VOLUME .
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... poem which excelled in beauty all that they were accustomed to hear . He afterwards yielded to the earnest ... poems on the Bible histories , and on miscellaneous religious subjects , and some of these have been preserved . His account ...
... poem which excelled in beauty all that they were accustomed to hear . He afterwards yielded to the earnest ... poems on the Bible histories , and on miscellaneous religious subjects , and some of these have been preserved . His account ...
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... poem entitled Le Brut D'Angleterre ( Brutus of England ) . The chief hero was an imaginary son of Eneas of Troy , who was represented as having founded the state of Britain many centuries before the Christian era . This was no creation ...
... poem entitled Le Brut D'Angleterre ( Brutus of England ) . The chief hero was an imaginary son of Eneas of Troy , who was represented as having founded the state of Britain many centuries before the Christian era . This was no creation ...
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... poem of the same period , ascribed to ROBERT LONGLANDE , a secular priest , also shows very expressively the progress which was made , about the middle of the fourteenth century , towards a literary style . This poem , in many points of ...
... poem of the same period , ascribed to ROBERT LONGLANDE , a secular priest , also shows very expressively the progress which was made , about the middle of the fourteenth century , towards a literary style . This poem , in many points of ...
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... poem of the Dream . Chaucer and time - honoured Gaunt ' became closely connected . The former mar- ried Philippa ... poetic and historical interest to the spot . The opening of the reign of Richard II . was unpropitious to Chaucer . He ...
... poem of the Dream . Chaucer and time - honoured Gaunt ' became closely connected . The former mar- ried Philippa ... poetic and historical interest to the spot . The opening of the reign of Richard II . was unpropitious to Chaucer . He ...
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第 185 頁 - Here, under leave of Brutus, and the rest, (For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men;) Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral. He was my friend, faithful and just to me: But Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man.
第 132 頁 - Sweet Day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die.
第 329 頁 - MAY MORNING. Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire ; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long.
第 107 頁 - Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it : for I love you so. That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, If thinking on me then should make you woe.
第 395 頁 - ... teeth: and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. 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. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
第 331 頁 - Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful jollity, Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek ; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides...
第 333 頁 - Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That owned the virtuous ring and glass, And of the wondrous horse of brass, On which the Tartar king did ride...
第 243 頁 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business.
第 187 頁 - To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling...
第 334 頁 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new world ; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...