From Chaucer to Tennyson: With Twenty-nine Portraits and Selections from Thirty AuthorsFlood and Vincent, 1894 - 313 من الصفحات |
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... Queen Elizabeth , his royal patron - has nothing to say of the real kings of early England . So completely had the true record faded away that it made no appeal to the imagina- tions of our most patriotic poets . The Saxon Alfred had ...
... Queen Elizabeth , his royal patron - has nothing to say of the real kings of early England . So completely had the true record faded away that it made no appeal to the imagina- tions of our most patriotic poets . The Saxon Alfred had ...
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... Queen Gwendolen and his daughter Sabrina , who gave her name to the river Severn , was made immortal by an exquis- ite song in Milton's Comus and became the heroine of the tragedy of Locrine , once attributed to Shakspere ; and above ...
... Queen Gwendolen and his daughter Sabrina , who gave her name to the river Severn , was made immortal by an exquis- ite song in Milton's Comus and became the heroine of the tragedy of Locrine , once attributed to Shakspere ; and above ...
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... Queen Argante , " sheen- est of all elves , " whence he shall come again , according to Merlin's prophecy , to rule the Britons ; all this left lit- tle , in essentials , for Tennyson to add in his Passing of Arthur . This new material ...
... Queen Argante , " sheen- est of all elves , " whence he shall come again , according to Merlin's prophecy , to rule the Britons ; all this left lit- tle , in essentials , for Tennyson to add in his Passing of Arthur . This new material ...
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... queen for his mate , and is encountered by the giant Sir Olifaunt , burlesques these same romances with their impossible advent- ures and their tedious rambling descriptions . The tales of the prioress and the second nun are saints ...
... queen for his mate , and is encountered by the giant Sir Olifaunt , burlesques these same romances with their impossible advent- ures and their tedious rambling descriptions . The tales of the prioress and the second nun are saints ...
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... queen of Scotland in 1424. Twelve years later James was murdered by Sir Robert Graham and his Highlanders , and his wife , who strove to defend him , was wounded by the assassins . The story of the murder has been told of late by D. G. ...
... queen of Scotland in 1424. Twelve years later James was murdered by Sir Robert Graham and his Highlanders , and his wife , who strove to defend him , was wounded by the assassins . The story of the murder has been told of late by D. G. ...
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الصفحة 282 - Ah! then and there was hurrying to and fro. And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress. And cheeks all pale, which but an hour ago Blushed at the praise of their own loveliness: And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts; and choking sighs, Which ne'er might be repeated...
الصفحة 282 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war...
الصفحة 295 - Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend? For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.
الصفحة 259 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place; Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.
الصفحة 244 - Gently o'er the accustom'd oak. Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among, ' I woo, to hear thy even-song; And, missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless way, And oft, as if her head she bow'd, Stooping through a fleecy cloud.
الصفحة 247 - Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
الصفحة 260 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.
الصفحة 238 - To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them...
الصفحة 302 - OH, TO BE in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England - now...
الصفحة 283 - THOU still unravish'd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In Tempe or the dales of Arcady ? What men or gods are these?