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... verse of the English literature of the fourteenth century comes up to the elaborate elegance and the classic finish of Boccaccio and of Petrarch . But in original power , and in all the highest qualities of poetry , no Continental ...
... verse of the English literature of the fourteenth century comes up to the elaborate elegance and the classic finish of Boccaccio and of Petrarch . But in original power , and in all the highest qualities of poetry , no Continental ...
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... verse is scarcely inferior to the melody of Spenser . There can be little doubt that his metrical system was in perfect accordance with the orthoepy of his age , and it was near two centu- ries before any improvements were made upon his ...
... verse is scarcely inferior to the melody of Spenser . There can be little doubt that his metrical system was in perfect accordance with the orthoepy of his age , and it was near two centu- ries before any improvements were made upon his ...
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... verse a word borrowed from the voice of the sheep , when , speaking of certain censurable follies , he calls them " baaing vanities . " That these resemblances are in many instances imaginary , appears from the fact that different ...
... verse a word borrowed from the voice of the sheep , when , speaking of certain censurable follies , he calls them " baaing vanities . " That these resemblances are in many instances imaginary , appears from the fact that different ...
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... verse , written Frisic is never employed for any practical purpose , the language has no orthography , and is , philologically speaking , an unwritten tongue . It is therefore subject to all the uncertainty and vacillation of other ...
... verse , written Frisic is never employed for any practical purpose , the language has no orthography , and is , philologically speaking , an unwritten tongue . It is therefore subject to all the uncertainty and vacillation of other ...
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... verses from Il Penseroso : " " Come , pensive Nun , devout and pure , Sober , steadfast and demure , All in a robe of darkest grain , Flowing with majestic train . " Here the epithet " darkest , " and the character and attributes of the ...
... verses from Il Penseroso : " " Come , pensive Nun , devout and pure , Sober , steadfast and demure , All in a robe of darkest grain , Flowing with majestic train . " Here the epithet " darkest , " and the character and attributes of the ...
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Page 60 - At once on the eastern cliff of Paradise He lights; and to his proper shape returns A seraph wing'd : six wings he wore, to shade His lineaments divine ; the pair that clad Each shoulder, broad, came mantling o'er his breast With regal ornament ; the middle pair Girt like a starry zone his waist, and round Skirted his loins and thighs with downy gold, And colours dipt in heaven; the third his feet Shadow'd from either heel with feather'd mail, Sky-tinctured grain.
Page 142 - But he that heareth and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth, against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.
Page 61 - In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, Where most may wonder at the workmanship. It is for homely features to keep home ; They had their name thence: coarse complexions And cheeks of sorry grain will serve to ply The sampler, and to tease the huswife's wool.
Page 56 - Come, pensive Nun, devout and pure, Sober, steadfast, and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing with majestic train, And sable stole of cypress lawn Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come; but keep thy wonted state, With even step, and musing gait, And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes...
Page 139 - When we were taken up stairs," says he in one of his letters, " a dirty fellow bounced out of the bed on which one of us was to lie.
Page 537 - Oxford. 13. The directors in each company to be the Deans of Westminster and Chester for that place, and the king's professors in the Hebrew or Greek in either university. 14. These translations to be used when they agree better with the text than the Bishops' Bible: Tindale's, Matthew's, Coverdale's, Whitchurch's, Geneva.
Page 539 - Truly, good Christian Reader, we never thought from the beginning that we should need to make a new translation, nor yet to make of a bad one a good one...
Page 436 - By rejecting the posts, we light the savage fires, we bind the victims. This day we undertake to render account to the widows and orphans whom our decision will make, to the wretches that will be roasted at the stake, to our country, and I do not deem it too serious to say, to conscience and to God.
Page 113 - It was the tomb of a crusader; of one of those military enthusiasts, who so strangely mingled religion and romance, and whose exploits form the connecting link between fact and fiction ; between the history and the fairy tale. There is something extremely picturesque in the tombs of these adventurers, decorated as they are with rude armorial bearings and Gothic sculpture.
Page 131 - Though forced to drudge for the dregs of men, And scrawl strange words with the barbarous pen, And mingle among the jostling crowd, Where the sons of strife are subtle and loud...