Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books: With Introductions and NotesWilliam Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, Francis Bacon, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, Isaac Newton, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman P.F. Collier & Son, 1910 - 437 من الصفحات |
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... Lord God a thousand four hundred sixty and eight , and ended and finished in the holy city of Cologne the 19th day of September , the year of our said Lord God a thousand four hundred sixty and eleven , etc. And on that other side of ...
... Lord God a thousand four hundred sixty and eight , and ended and finished in the holy city of Cologne the 19th day of September , the year of our said Lord God a thousand four hundred sixty and eleven , etc. And on that other side of ...
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... lord , Duchess of Burgundy , of Lotryk , of Brabant , of Limburg , and of Luxembourg , Countess of Flanders , of Artois , and of Burgundy , Palatine of Hainault , of Holland , of Zealand and of Namur , Mar- quesse of the Holy Empire ...
... lord , Duchess of Burgundy , of Lotryk , of Brabant , of Limburg , and of Luxembourg , Countess of Flanders , of Artois , and of Burgundy , Palatine of Hainault , of Holland , of Zealand and of Namur , Mar- quesse of the Holy Empire ...
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... Lord a thousand four hundred seventy one . And as for the third book , which treateth of the general and last destruction of Troy , it needeth not to translate it into English , for as much as that worship- ful and religious man , Dan ...
... Lord a thousand four hundred seventy one . And as for the third book , which treateth of the general and last destruction of Troy , it needeth not to translate it into English , for as much as that worship- ful and religious man , Dan ...
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... Lord 1477. Which book is late translated out of French into English by the noble and puissant Lord Lord Antony , Earl of Rivers , Lord of Scales and of the Isle of Wight , defender and director of the siege apostolic for our holy father ...
... Lord 1477. Which book is late translated out of French into English by the noble and puissant Lord Lord Antony , Earl of Rivers , Lord of Scales and of the Isle of Wight , defender and director of the siege apostolic for our holy father ...
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... Lord hath left out certain and divers conclusions touching women . Whereof I marvel that my Lord hath not written them , ne what hath moved him so to do , ne what cause he had at that time ; but I suppose that some fair lady hath ...
... Lord hath left out certain and divers conclusions touching women . Whereof I marvel that my Lord hath not written them , ne what hath moved him so to do , ne what cause he had at that time ; but I suppose that some fair lady hath ...
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الصفحة 42 - Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet.
الصفحة 272 - For all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: and though this be true, Poems to which any value can be attached were never produced on any variety of subjects but by a man who, being possessed of more than usual organic sensibility, had also thought long and deeply.
الصفحة 206 - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment...
الصفحة 166 - But enough of this : there is such a variety of game springing up before me, that I am distracted in my choice, and know not which to follow. Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.
الصفحة 307 - She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
الصفحة 210 - Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest ; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth.
الصفحة 165 - He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive nature, because, as it has been truly observed of him, he has taken into the compass of his " Canterbury Tales" the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation, in his age.
الصفحة 212 - Shakespeare approximates the remote, and familiarizes the wonderful ; the event which he represents will not happen, but if it were possible, its effects would probably be such as he has assigned...
الصفحة 174 - I shall say the less of Mr Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
الصفحة 62 - I chose the historye of King Arthure, as most fitte for the excellency of his person, being made famous by many mens former workes, and also furthest from the daunger of envy, and suspition of present time.