Literary By-Paths in Old English1909 |
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... seems impossible to locate his exact whereabouts . Just here , however , it is right that the statement of John Aubrey , the antiquarian , should be considered . Aubrey , who was born some twenty - seven years after Spen- ser's death ...
... seems impossible to locate his exact whereabouts . Just here , however , it is right that the statement of John Aubrey , the antiquarian , should be considered . Aubrey , who was born some twenty - seven years after Spen- ser's death ...
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... seems probable that an earlier date may be accepted . One authority de- clares the poet to have become a member of the household of Leicester House not later than 1578 . In the June æglogue of the " Shepheards Calender , " Hobbinol ...
... seems probable that an earlier date may be accepted . One authority de- clares the poet to have become a member of the household of Leicester House not later than 1578 . In the June æglogue of the " Shepheards Calender , " Hobbinol ...
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... seems , was the means of introducing Spenser to Sir Philip Sidney , and thus opening to him the avenue along which such preferment as was to be his lot eventually came . So persistent and probable is the tradition which makes Spenser ...
... seems , was the means of introducing Spenser to Sir Philip Sidney , and thus opening to him the avenue along which such preferment as was to be his lot eventually came . So persistent and probable is the tradition which makes Spenser ...
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... seems clear that his heart was set on some state service which would give him space to approve the reputation he had won ; his letters to his friend Harvey bristle with poetic projects and schemes for high achieve- ment in the realm of ...
... seems clear that his heart was set on some state service which would give him space to approve the reputation he had won ; his letters to his friend Harvey bristle with poetic projects and schemes for high achieve- ment in the realm of ...
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... seems to have passed from one clerkship to another until his days were numbered . Various grants were made to him from time to time . Now he receives a lease of the Abbey of Enniscorthy , and a year later a six years ' lease of a house ...
... seems to have passed from one clerkship to another until his days were numbered . Various grants were made to him from time to time . Now he receives a lease of the Abbey of Enniscorthy , and a year later a six years ' lease of a house ...
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Page 110 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude Forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Page 168 - Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.
Page 159 - Careless their merits, or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his" failings leaned to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all.
Page 168 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
Page 269 - BRIGHT star ! would I were steadfast as thou art— Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors.
Page 166 - In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs — and God has given my share — I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose...
Page 168 - His house was known to all the vagrant train ; He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain...
Page 117 - In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening Phoebus lifts his golden fire : The birds in vain their amorous descant join, Or cheerful fields resume their green attire. These ears, alas ! for other notes repine ; A different object do these eyes require ; My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine ; And in my breast the imperfect joys expire...
Page 185 - Wi' mony an eldritch skreech and hollow. Ah, Tam! Ah, Tam! thou'll get thy fairin! In hell they'll roast thee like a herrin! In vain thy Kate awaits thy comin! Kate soon will be a woefu
Page 185 - O YE, whose cheek the tear of pity stains, Draw near with pious rev'rence, and attend ! Here lie the loving husband's dear remains, The tender father, and the gen'rous friend. The pitying heart that felt for human woe ; The dauntless heart that fear'd no human pride ; The friend of man, to vice alone a foe ; " For ev'n his failings lean'd to virtue's side.