A History of English Poetry, Volume 1Macmillan and Company, 1895 - English poetry |
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Page ix
... England from the Conquest ( 1066 ) , or rather from Henry II.'s time ( 1154 ) , to the reign of Edward III . ( 1327 ) . P. 2. On Chaucer , who first introduced the manner of the Provençaux , improved by the Italians , into our country ...
... England from the Conquest ( 1066 ) , or rather from Henry II.'s time ( 1154 ) , to the reign of Edward III . ( 1327 ) . P. 2. On Chaucer , who first introduced the manner of the Provençaux , improved by the Italians , into our country ...
Page x
... England by the Danes and Saxons , and its duration . I then begin my history at the Conquest , which I write chronologically in sections , and continue as matter succes- sively offers itself , in a series of regular annals , down to and ...
... England by the Danes and Saxons , and its duration . I then begin my history at the Conquest , which I write chronologically in sections , and continue as matter succes- sively offers itself , in a series of regular annals , down to and ...
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... England were both in- timately associated with the History of Poetry , he did not treat them as if they were of its essence , but discussed them separately , incidentally , in a merely archæological temper , and with so little ...
... England were both in- timately associated with the History of Poetry , he did not treat them as if they were of its essence , but discussed them separately , incidentally , in a merely archæological temper , and with so little ...
Page xiii
... England will yield to forces of the same kind as those which dissolved the structure of classical Latin . On the other hand , if , in the schools and univer- sities which are multiplying through the British Empire , the study of our ...
... England will yield to forces of the same kind as those which dissolved the structure of classical Latin . On the other hand , if , in the schools and univer- sities which are multiplying through the British Empire , the study of our ...
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... England retains some of the features of the fourteenth , because the Renaissance is in touch with the Middle Ages . The business of historical criticism is to trace the stream of thought that connects age with age , and the almost ...
... England retains some of the features of the fourteenth , because the Renaissance is in touch with the Middle Ages . The business of historical criticism is to trace the stream of thought that connects age with age , and the almost ...
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Page 41 - And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness, unto the judgment of the great day.
Page 42 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds: I will be like the most High.
Page 2 - Milton was the poetical son of Spenser, and Mr. Waller of Fairfax, for we have our lineal descents and clans as well as other families.
Page 111 - THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Page 293 - His berd as any sowe or fox was reed, And ther-to brood, as though it were a spade. Up-on the cop...
Page 110 - They now to fight are gone, Armour on armour shone, Drum now to drum did groan, To hear was wonder ; That with the cries they make, The very earth did shake, Trumpet to trumpet spake, Thunder to thunder.
Page 40 - See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; in that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his...
Page 273 - Orbe locus medio est inter terrasque fretumque caelestesque plagas, triplicis confinia mundi: unde quod est usquam, quamvis regionibus absit, inspicitur, penetratque cavas vox omnis ad aures. Fama tenet summaque domum sibi legit in arce, innumerosque aditus ac mille foramina tectis addidit, et nullis inclusit limina portis.
Page 186 - Sir, will you grant and keep, and by your oath confirm to the people of England, the laws and customs to them granted by the kings of England, your lawful and religious predecessors ; and namely, the laws, customs, and franchises' granted to the clergy by the glorious king St. Edward, your predecessor, according to the laws of God, the true profession of the gospel established in this kingdom...
Page 470 - A multitude, like which the populous north Pour'd never from her frozen loins, to pass Rhene or the Danaw, when her barbarous sons Came like a deluge on the south, and spread Beneath Gibraltar to the Libyan sands.