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... published that is to say , copies in manuscript began to be made — in or about the year 1362 , but he kept adding to it from time to time , and it probably did not appear in its final form till 1390. The poem is an allegory regarding ...
... published that is to say , copies in manuscript began to be made — in or about the year 1362 , but he kept adding to it from time to time , and it probably did not appear in its final form till 1390. The poem is an allegory regarding ...
Page 80
... of the royal arms along with his own ; but he is believed to have been engaged in a conspiracy 1 The best edition is published by Macmillan & Co. against Henry VIII . His execution was the last political 80 FROM CHAUCER TO SPENSER .
... of the royal arms along with his own ; but he is believed to have been engaged in a conspiracy 1 The best edition is published by Macmillan & Co. against Henry VIII . His execution was the last political 80 FROM CHAUCER TO SPENSER .
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... published in 1523. Lord Berners was an educated man , a courtier , and a man of the world , and wrote easy , unpedantic English . Mr. Marsh says : " This translation is doubtless the best English prose style which had yet appeared ...
... published in 1523. Lord Berners was an educated man , a courtier , and a man of the world , and wrote easy , unpedantic English . Mr. Marsh says : " This translation is doubtless the best English prose style which had yet appeared ...
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... published till 1570 , two years after his death . The following passage from it is well known : — One example , whether love or feare doth worke more in a child for 1 vertue and learning , I will gladlie report ; which may be hard with ...
... published till 1570 , two years after his death . The following passage from it is well known : — One example , whether love or feare doth worke more in a child for 1 vertue and learning , I will gladlie report ; which may be hard with ...
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... published a translation of the whole Bible in 1537 , and incorporated Tyndale's version almost without alterations . 13. In Scotland there are three names of note in this century , William Dunbar , Gawaine Douglas , and Sir David ...
... published a translation of the whole Bible in 1537 , and incorporated Tyndale's version almost without alterations . 13. In Scotland there are three names of note in this century , William Dunbar , Gawaine Douglas , and Sir David ...
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Page 485 - How long wilt thou sleep, O Sluggard ? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep ? Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep. So shall thy poverty come as one that travaileth, and thy want as an armed man.
Page 127 - Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill : But their strong nerves at last must yield ; They tame but one another still : Early or late They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath When they, pale captives, creep to death.
Page 237 - Camoens soothed an exile's grief; The Sonnet glittered a gay myrtle leaf Amid the cypress with which Dante crowned His visionary brow; a glow-worm lamp, It cheered mild Spenser, called from Faery-land To struggle through dark ways; and, when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet, whence he blew Soul-animating strains, — alas! too few.
Page 489 - Proud Maisie is in the wood, Walking so early; Sweet Robin sits on the bush, Singing so rarely. '"Tell me, thou bonny bird. When shall I marry me?' 'When six braw gentlemen Kirkward shall carry ye.' '"Who makes the bridal bed, Birdie, say truly?' — 'The grey-headed sexton, That delves the grave duly. "The glow-worm o'er grave and stone Shall light thee steady; The owl from the steeple sing, 'Welcome, proud lady.
Page 219 - 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 369 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reilected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
Page 505 - O Lady! we receive but what we give And in our life alone does Nature live: Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud! And would we aught behold of higher worth, Than that inanimate cold world allowed To the poor loveless ever-anxious crowd, Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth And from the soul itself must there be sent A sweet and potent voice, of its own birth, Of all sweet sounds the life and element!
Page 137 - And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings...
Page 184 - Who God doth late and early pray More of His grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend; This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands; And having nothing, yet hath all.
Page 392 - O Mary ! dear departed shade ! Where is thy place of blissful rest! Seest thou thy lover lowly laid? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast?