A History of English Poetry, Volume 1Macmillan and Company, 1895 - English poetry |
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... seen clearly how impossible it would be for him to confine his history within the limits he had first intended . A third volume was produced in 1781 , but afterwards his energy seems to have decayed , for on his death in 1790 , his ...
... seen clearly how impossible it would be for him to confine his history within the limits he had first intended . A third volume was produced in 1781 , but afterwards his energy seems to have decayed , for on his death in 1790 , his ...
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... seen this poem is in Tottel's edition of the Falls of Princes ( 1554 ) , a copy of which is in the British Museum . 2 Yet M. Jusserand , writing with all the qualities of his nation , has suc- ceeded in clothing the subject with amenity ...
... seen this poem is in Tottel's edition of the Falls of Princes ( 1554 ) , a copy of which is in the British Museum . 2 Yet M. Jusserand , writing with all the qualities of his nation , has suc- ceeded in clothing the subject with amenity ...
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... seen from the correspondence before cited that Gray would have excluded dramatic poetry from the purview of his history , and Warton expressed the same intention , though his history shows that he did not strictly abide by it . The ...
... seen from the correspondence before cited that Gray would have excluded dramatic poetry from the purview of his history , and Warton expressed the same intention , though his history shows that he did not strictly abide by it . The ...
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... seen that a great number of the main branches of the tree of English poetry had already opened out at this time from the stem , and that the ideal and sentimental elements of the earliest poetry have continued with natural changes to ...
... seen that a great number of the main branches of the tree of English poetry had already opened out at this time from the stem , and that the ideal and sentimental elements of the earliest poetry have continued with natural changes to ...
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... seen to revive ; the classical tide begins to ebb ; while the collective volume of national thought shows a tendency to distribute itself into a number of individual channels , a movement continued down to our own time , with a ...
... seen to revive ; the classical tide begins to ebb ; while the collective volume of national thought shows a tendency to distribute itself into a number of individual channels , a movement continued down to our own time , with a ...
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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.