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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... continued by the space of 30 years for the most part in the countries of Brabant , Flanders , Holland , and Zealand . And thus when all these things came before me , after that I had made and written five or six quires I fell in despair ...
... continued by the space of 30 years for the most part in the countries of Brabant , Flanders , Holland , and Zealand . And thus when all these things came before me , after that I had made and written five or six quires I fell in despair ...
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... continued in Ghent and finished in Cologne , in the time of the troublous world , and of the great divisions being and reign- ing , as well in the royaumes of England and France as in all other places universally through the world ...
... continued in Ghent and finished in Cologne , in the time of the troublous world , and of the great divisions being and reign- ing , as well in the royaumes of England and France as in all other places universally through the world ...
الصفحة 58
... continued to influence the Scottish national character to the present day . His preface , which is printed here in the original Scottish spelling , gives some indication of the sternness , not to say viru- lence , of his temper towards ...
... continued to influence the Scottish national character to the present day . His preface , which is printed here in the original Scottish spelling , gives some indication of the sternness , not to say viru- lence , of his temper towards ...
الصفحة 61
... continued allegory , or darke conceit , I have thought good , as well for avoyding of gealous opinions and miscon- structions , as also for your better light in reading thereof , ( being so by you commanded , ) to discover unto you the ...
... continued allegory , or darke conceit , I have thought good , as well for avoyding of gealous opinions and miscon- structions , as also for your better light in reading thereof , ( being so by you commanded , ) to discover unto you the ...
الصفحة 79
... continued war , and the cruelties exercised upon each other , in the affections of the nations , they were infinitely severed . This I say is not the least of God's blessings which his Majesty hath brought with him unto this land : no ...
... continued war , and the cruelties exercised upon each other , in the affections of the nations , they were infinitely severed . This I say is not the least of God's blessings which his Majesty hath brought with him unto this land : no ...
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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.