History of the English Language and LiteratureE. Hopkins, 1837 - 328 من الصفحات |
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... readers , on the general subject of authorship , in the United States . With the exception of a notice of three American writers , he has con- fined himself to an account of authors in the British Isles . This exclu- sion of the ...
... readers , on the general subject of authorship , in the United States . With the exception of a notice of three American writers , he has con- fined himself to an account of authors in the British Isles . This exclu- sion of the ...
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... reader ; and even to the scholar , as asort of remembrancer of what he already knows , in the separate parts , if not in the whole , as a history . A knowledge of the origin , occasion , design , relations , and other circumstances of ...
... reader ; and even to the scholar , as asort of remembrancer of what he already knows , in the separate parts , if not in the whole , as a history . A knowledge of the origin , occasion , design , relations , and other circumstances of ...
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... readers . The earliest existing specimen of composition in the Saxon tongue is a fragment by Cadmon , a monk of Whitby , who wrote religious poetry in a very sublime strain , in the eighth century , and who , for want of learning , was ...
... readers . The earliest existing specimen of composition in the Saxon tongue is a fragment by Cadmon , a monk of Whitby , who wrote religious poetry in a very sublime strain , in the eighth century , and who , for want of learning , was ...
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... reader , a notion of the language employed by the people of England soon after the Norman conquest , the following extract from a poem of that age may be given , with a translation into modern English : Tha the masse wes isungen , Of ...
... reader , a notion of the language employed by the people of England soon after the Norman conquest , the following extract from a poem of that age may be given , with a translation into modern English : Tha the masse wes isungen , Of ...
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... reader . The Knight , the Yeoman , the Prioress , the Monk , the Merch- ant , the Lawyer , the Miller - all are exact and recogniza- ble portraits . * The tales told by the Canterbury pilgrims , As a specimen of the verse of Chaucer ...
... reader . The Knight , the Yeoman , the Prioress , the Monk , the Merch- ant , the Lawyer , the Miller - all are exact and recogniza- ble portraits . * The tales told by the Canterbury pilgrims , As a specimen of the verse of Chaucer ...
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الصفحة 139 - A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
الصفحة 31 - No longer mourn for me when I am dead, Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell : Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it ; for I love you so, That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, If thinking on me then should make you woe.
الصفحة 140 - The unfeeling for his own. Yet, ah ! why should they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought would destroy their paradise. No more ; — where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.
الصفحة 206 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean — roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ruin— his control Stops with the shore ; — upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed...
الصفحة 36 - You haste away so soon; As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attain'd his noon. Stay, stay Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having pray'd together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring ; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away Like to the Summer's rain ; Or as the pearls of morning's dew, Ne'er to be found again.
الصفحة 107 - And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies. Not louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or when lapdogs breathe their last ; Or when rich China vessels, fall'n from high, In glitt'ring dust and painted fragments lie ! " Let wreaths of triumph now my temples twine...
الصفحة 115 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
الصفحة 108 - For others good, or melt at others woe. What can atone (oh ever-injur'd shade !) Thy fate unpity'd, and thy rites unpaid ? No friend's complaint, no kind domestic tear Pleas'd thy pale ghost, or grac'd thy mournful bier : By foreign hands thy dying eyes were clos'd, By foreign hands thy decent limbs compos'd, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorn'd, By strangers honour'd, and by strangers mourn'd! What tho' no friends in sable weeds appear.
الصفحة 82 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
الصفحة 77 - He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a lord may be an owl ; A calf an alderman, a goose a justice, And rooks committee-men and trustees.