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... born in London about 1328. His parents seem to have been wealthy people , and to have occupied a high place in society ; because we find Chaucer receiving an excellent education at Oxford and Cambridge , and afterwards becoming attached ...
... born in London about 1328. His parents seem to have been wealthy people , and to have occupied a high place in society ; because we find Chaucer receiving an excellent education at Oxford and Cambridge , and afterwards becoming attached ...
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... born in London , and is supposed to have belonged to an illustrious house of that name . His own parents , however , seem to have been poor , for we find him entered at the University of Cambridge as a sizar — that is , a student who re ...
... born in London , and is supposed to have belonged to an illustrious house of that name . His own parents , however , seem to have been poor , for we find him entered at the University of Cambridge as a sizar — that is , a student who re ...
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... born on the 23rd of April , 1564 , in Stratford - on - Avon , a town in Warwickshire . His father , John Shakespeare , was a respectable shopkeeper , and dealt in wool , skins , leather gloves , & c .; but his mother , Isabella Arden ...
... born on the 23rd of April , 1564 , in Stratford - on - Avon , a town in Warwickshire . His father , John Shakespeare , was a respectable shopkeeper , and dealt in wool , skins , leather gloves , & c .; but his mother , Isabella Arden ...
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... born at Westminster shortly after his father's death . Through the kindness of a friend , he received a good education , and was for a short time at Cambridge . He was removed from the university by his step - father - a bricklayer ...
... born at Westminster shortly after his father's death . Through the kindness of a friend , he received a good education , and was for a short time at Cambridge . He was removed from the university by his step - father - a bricklayer ...
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... born a gentleman , life was a very sad one . and was well educated ; but , somehow , he was always poor . When he became a play writer he was constantly in trouble ; and at one time we find him begging ear- nestly for the loan of a ...
... born a gentleman , life was a very sad one . and was well educated ; but , somehow , he was always poor . When he became a play writer he was constantly in trouble ; and at one time we find him begging ear- nestly for the loan of a ...
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Page 71 - Join voices, all ye living Souls; ye Birds, That, singing, up to Heaven-gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise. Ye that in waters glide, and ye that walk • The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep, Witness if I be silent, morn or even, To hill or valley, fountain, or fresh shade, Made vocal by my song, and taught his praise. Hail, universal Lord! Be bounteous still To give us only good ; and, if the night Have gathered aught of evil, or concealed, Disperse it, as now light...
Page 71 - Whether to deck with clouds the uncolour'd sky, Or wet the thirsty earth with falling showers, Rising or falling still advance his praise. His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave.
Page 188 - We watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. " ' So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. " ' Our very hopes belied our fears ; Our fears our hopes belied ; We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died. " ' For when the morn came dim and sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed ; — she had Another morn...
Page 94 - On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood. Robed in the sable garb of woe. With haggard eyes the poet stood; (Loose his beard, and hoary hair Streamed, like a meteor, to the troubled air), And with a master's hand, and prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre.
Page 31 - I am in presence either of father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry, or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing, or doing anything else, I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly, as God made the world...
Page 78 - Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.
Page 76 - ALL human things are subject to decay, And when fate summons, monarchs must obey: This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, young Was called to empire, and had governed long: In prose and verse, was owned, without dispute, Through all the realms of Nonsense, absolute.
Page 55 - Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I'll not look for wine.
Page 52 - Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough brier, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire, I do wander every where, Swifter than the moon's sphere; And I serve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs upon the green. The cowslips tall her pensioners be: In their gold coats spots you see; Those be rubies, fairy favours, In those freckles live their savours: I must go seek some dewdrops here, And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.
Page 139 - SHE dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise, And very few to love. A Violet by a mossy stone Half-hidden from the eye ! — Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky.