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... publish a body of English poetry , I was persuaded to promise them a preface to the works of each author ; an undertaking , as it was then presented to my mind , not very extensive or difficult . " My purpose was only to have allotted ...
... publish a body of English poetry , I was persuaded to promise them a preface to the works of each author ; an undertaking , as it was then presented to my mind , not very extensive or difficult . " My purpose was only to have allotted ...
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... published by the liberality of Sir John Guest , has satisfactorily shown , that while a person named Merddin , a bard to whom powers of divination were ascribed , appeared as a boy before Vortigern in 480 , and in the court of Rhydderch ...
... published by the liberality of Sir John Guest , has satisfactorily shown , that while a person named Merddin , a bard to whom powers of divination were ascribed , appeared as a boy before Vortigern in 480 , and in the court of Rhydderch ...
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... published amongst Bede's Opuscula , besides several other treatises , which are mentioned by Bale and William of Malmesbury , the latter of whom gives him the following character as a writer : “ The language of the Greeks is close and ...
... published amongst Bede's Opuscula , besides several other treatises , which are mentioned by Bale and William of Malmesbury , the latter of whom gives him the following character as a writer : “ The language of the Greeks is close and ...
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... published by M. Michel ( 1840 ) ; the other romance by Le Roux de Lincy . MAURICE DE CRAON . ( Died 1216. ) Maurice de Craon , an Anglo - Norman , high in favour at the court of Henry II . , and having large landed property in Surrey ...
... published by M. Michel ( 1840 ) ; the other romance by Le Roux de Lincy . MAURICE DE CRAON . ( Died 1216. ) Maurice de Craon , an Anglo - Norman , high in favour at the court of Henry II . , and having large landed property in Surrey ...
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... to manuscript , having been published ( 1847 ) , with a literal translation , notes , and glossary , by Sir Frederick Madden . D ORME . ( Circa 1210. ) The earliest successor of. NICHOLAS DE GUILDFORD . 33 Guildford, Nicholas de,
... to manuscript , having been published ( 1847 ) , with a literal translation , notes , and glossary , by Sir Frederick Madden . D ORME . ( Circa 1210. ) The earliest successor of. NICHOLAS DE GUILDFORD . 33 Guildford, Nicholas de,
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Page 212 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtile flame As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life...
Page 192 - The reluctant pangs of abdicating royalty in Edward furnished hints which Shakspeare scarcely improved in his Richard the Second; and the death-scene of Marlowe's king moves pity and terror beyond any scene ancient or modern with which I am acquainted.
Page 185 - He had, by a misfortune common enough to young fellows, fallen into ill company, and amongst them, some that made a frequent practice of deer-stealing, engaged him more than once in robbing a park that belonged to Sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlecote, near Stratford.
Page 187 - He was wont to go to his native country once a year. I think I have been told that he left 200?.
Page 311 - Waller, though confessedly," says Clarendon, " the most guilty, with incredible dissimulation affected such a remorse of conscience, that his trial was put off, out of Christian compassion, till he might recover his understanding.
Page 194 - Next Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him those brave translunary things That the first poets had ; his raptures were All air and fire, which made his verses clear ; For that fine madness still he did retain Which rightly should possess a poet's brain.
Page 186 - Yes, trust them not, for there is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes Factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Page 60 - For many a cheerful day. These ancient walls Have often heard him, while his legends blithe He sang; of love, or knighthood, or the wiles Of homely life; through each estate and age, The fashions and the follies of the world With cunning hand portraying. Though perchance From Blenheim's towers...
Page 288 - His chiefest recreation was Musick, in which heavenly Art he was a most excellent Master, and did himself compose many divine Hymns and Anthems, which he set and sung to his Lute or Viol...
Page 322 - Orpheus' lyre : If she sit down, with tops all tow'rds her bow'd, They round about her into arbours crowd : Or if she walks, in even ranks they stand, Like some well-marshal'd and obsequious band.