Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from the Earliest to the Present Time, Connected by a Critical and Biographical History, Volum 1Robert Chambers Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1849 |
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Pàgina 37
... fire , And on her head a chaplet fresh of hue , Of plumis parted red , and white , and blue . Full of quaking spangis bright as gold , Forged of shape like to the amorets , So new , so fresh , so pleasant to behold , The plumis eke like ...
... fire , And on her head a chaplet fresh of hue , Of plumis parted red , and white , and blue . Full of quaking spangis bright as gold , Forged of shape like to the amorets , So new , so fresh , so pleasant to behold , The plumis eke like ...
Pàgina 39
... fire of flint ; Bawdrons the other by the back has hent . Frae foot to foot he cast her to and frae , While up , while down , as cant as only kid ; While wald he let her run under the strae While wald he wink and play with her buik ...
... fire of flint ; Bawdrons the other by the back has hent . Frae foot to foot he cast her to and frae , While up , while down , as cant as only kid ; While wald he let her run under the strae While wald he wink and play with her buik ...
Pàgina 42
... fire aye as they skippit , They grinned with hideous granes . Then IRE came in with sturt and strife ; His hand was aye upon his knife , He brandished like a bear ; Boasters , braggarts , and bargainers , After him , passit in to pairs ...
... fire aye as they skippit , They grinned with hideous granes . Then IRE came in with sturt and strife ; His hand was aye upon his knife , He brandished like a bear ; Boasters , braggarts , and bargainers , After him , passit in to pairs ...
Pàgina 48
... fire that all things eke consumeth clean , May hurt and heal : then if that this be true , I trust some time my harm may be my health , Since every woe is joined with some wealth . The Courtier's Life . In court to serve decked with ...
... fire that all things eke consumeth clean , May hurt and heal : then if that this be true , I trust some time my harm may be my health , Since every woe is joined with some wealth . The Courtier's Life . In court to serve decked with ...
Pàgina 69
... fire was made . Then William cast his psalter right into his brother's hand , who said , William , think on the holy passion of Christ , and be not afraid of death . ' And William answered , ' I am not afraid . ' Then lift he up his ...
... fire was made . Then William cast his psalter right into his brother's hand , who said , William , think on the holy passion of Christ , and be not afraid of death . ' And William answered , ' I am not afraid . ' Then lift he up his ...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ... Robert Chambers Visualització completa - 1847 |
Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest ..., Volum 1 Robert Chambers Visualització completa - 1856 |
Cyclopædia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ... Robert Chambers Visualització completa - 1847 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 185 - Here, under leave of Brutus, and the rest, (For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men;) Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral. He was my friend, faithful and just to me: But Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man.
Pàgina 132 - 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.
Pàgina 329 - MAY MORNING. Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire ; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long.
Pàgina 107 - 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.
Pàgina 395 - ... teeth: and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Pàgina 331 - 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...
Pàgina 333 - Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That owned the virtuous ring and glass, And of the wondrous horse of brass, On which the Tartar king did ride...
Pàgina 243 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business.
Pàgina 187 - To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling...
Pàgina 334 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new world ; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...