The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1Harper & brothers, 1851 - English literature |
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... leave his pros- pective profession , and enter into the service of the king . Assenting with- out hesitation to this proposition , Edward the Third at once appointed him one of his pages , with an annuity of twenty marks per annum - a ...
... leave his pros- pective profession , and enter into the service of the king . Assenting with- out hesitation to this proposition , Edward the Third at once appointed him one of his pages , with an annuity of twenty marks per annum - a ...
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... leave , and with a holy intent She blesseth her , and into the ship she went . Victailled was the ship , it is no drede , 4 Abundantly for her a full long space ; And other necessaries that should need She had enow , herieds be Goddes ...
... leave , and with a holy intent She blesseth her , and into the ship she went . Victailled was the ship , it is no drede , 4 Abundantly for her a full long space ; And other necessaries that should need She had enow , herieds be Goddes ...
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... Leaving his flock acomber'd in the mire , And ran to London cogging at St. Paul's , To seek himself a chauntery for souls , Or with a brotherhood to be enroll'd ; But dwelt at home , and guarded well his fold , So that it should not by ...
... Leaving his flock acomber'd in the mire , And ran to London cogging at St. Paul's , To seek himself a chauntery for souls , Or with a brotherhood to be enroll'd ; But dwelt at home , and guarded well his fold , So that it should not by ...
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... leave at the same time , both of the muses and of the world , in his pathetic poem The Commendation of Peace . In this sweet production he plainly and affect- ingly indicates a full sense of his consciousness of an approaching death ...
... leave at the same time , both of the muses and of the world , in his pathetic poem The Commendation of Peace . In this sweet production he plainly and affect- ingly indicates a full sense of his consciousness of an approaching death ...
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... leave his home , to pass the remainder of his life among strangers . He , accordingly , embarked once more for the continent , but soon after died at Liege in Holland , on the seventeenth of November , 1372 , and in the seven- ty ...
... leave his home , to pass the remainder of his life among strangers . He , accordingly , embarked once more for the continent , but soon after died at Liege in Holland , on the seventeenth of November , 1372 , and in the seven- ty ...
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Page 210 - 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. Sweet Spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My Music shows ye have your closes, And all must die. Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like season'd timber, never gives ; But though the whole world turn to coal, Then chiefly...
Page 316 - Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I'll not look for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth rise Doth ask a drink divine; But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine.
Page 478 - 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.
Page 299 - O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name! Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I'll no longer be a Capulet.
Page 310 - But yesterday the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world ; now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence.
Page 217 - Come, let us go, while we are in our prime, And take the harmless folly of the time! We shall grow old apace, and die Before we know our liberty. Our life is short, and our days run As fast away as does the sun. And, as a vapour or a drop of rain, Once lost, can ne'er be found again, So when or you or I are made A fable, song, or fleeting shade, All love, all liking, all delight Lies drown'd with us in endless night. Then, while time serves, and we are but decaying, Come, my Corinna, come, let's...
Page 477 - And, though the shady Gloom Had given Day her room, The Sun himself withheld his wonted speed, And hid his head for shame, As his inferior flame The new-enlightened world no more should need : He saw a greater Sun appear Than his bright throne or burning axletree could bear.
Page 483 - Hurled headlong flaming from th' ethereal sky, With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy th
Page 390 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company ; and faces are but a gallery of pictures ; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Page 480 - Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook...