The History of English Literature: With an Outline of the Origin and Growth of the English Language, Illustrated by Extracts for the Use of Schools and Private Students |
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... force : they made their Norman - French the fashionable speech of the court and the aristocracy , and imposed it on the tribunals and the legislature ; and their romantic literature soon weaned the hearts of educated men from the ...
... force : they made their Norman - French the fashionable speech of the court and the aristocracy , and imposed it on the tribunals and the legislature ; and their romantic literature soon weaned the hearts of educated men from the ...
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... by no force but that of honest conviction , through no agency but that of un- fettered writing and speech . We and our fathers , gazing with eagerness , have gazed also in safety on that wild 2 INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER . 25.
... by no force but that of honest conviction , through no agency but that of un- fettered writing and speech . We and our fathers , gazing with eagerness , have gazed also in safety on that wild 2 INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER . 25.
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... force , with a singularly striking air of ghostly wildness , in a much longer piece , a legend of Saint Augustin , the apostle of the Saxons in England . Students in foreign literature will be interested in observing that , in the ...
... force , with a singularly striking air of ghostly wildness , in a much longer piece , a legend of Saint Augustin , the apostle of the Saxons in England . Students in foreign literature will be interested in observing that , in the ...
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... should hardly have looked . The prevalent calmness of tone and sobriety of judgment give , by contrast , additional force to the animated passages describing warfare and peril . Several of these are IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY . 93.
... should hardly have looked . The prevalent calmness of tone and sobriety of judgment give , by contrast , additional force to the animated passages describing warfare and peril . Several of these are IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY . 93.
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... force , ordered his band to turn and face the enemy , rather than abandon to them a poor woman who had been seized with illness . There are likewise not a few pleasing fragments of landscape - painting : and one of these is made ...
... force , ordered his band to turn and face the enemy , rather than abandon to them a poor woman who had been seized with illness . There are likewise not a few pleasing fragments of landscape - painting : and one of these is made ...
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Page 342 - The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast: Theirs buxom health, of rosy hue, Wild wit, invention ever new, And lively cheer, of vigour born, The thoughtless day, the easy night, The spirits pure, the slumbers light That fly th
Page 301 - He makes the figs our mouths to meet And throws the melons at our feet; But apples, plants of such a price, No tree could ever bear them twice. With cedars chosen by His hand From Lebanon He stores the land; And makes the hollow seas that roar Proclaim the ambergris on shore.
Page 342 - Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high, To bitter Scorn a sacrifice, And grinning Infamy. The stings of Falsehood those shall try And hard Unkindness...
Page 356 - 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 282 - In me thou seest the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night doth take away, Death's second self, that seals up all in rest. In me thou seest the glowing of such fire That on the ashes of his youth doth lie, As the death-bed whereon it must expire, Consum'd with that which it was nourish'd by.
Page 242 - I deny not but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean " themselves, as well as men, and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors. For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are...
Page 243 - ... sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas, wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty, the approaching reformation; others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement.
Page 220 - ... rest himself; if the moon should wander from her beaten way, the times and seasons of the year blend themselves by disordered and confused mixture, the winds breathe out their last gasp, the clouds yield no rain, the earth be defeated of heavenly influence, the fruits of the earth pine away as children at the withered breasts of their mother no longer able to yield them relief; what would become of man himself, whom these things now do all serve ? See we not plainly that obedience of creatures...
Page 247 - God, or melior natura: which courage is manifestly such as that creature, without that confidence of a better nature than his own, could never attain. So Man, when he resteth and assureth himself upon divine protection and favour, gathereth a force and faith which human nature in itself could not obtain...
Page 247 - I HAD rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.