English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature, Volume 9Cassell, limited, 1892 - English literature |
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... prince , whose ancestors conquered in France , who herself is a rare Phoenix of her time , with " learning , knowledge , counsel , judgment , and eloquence as well in the Greek , Latin , Italian , French , Dutch , as in our natural ...
... prince , whose ancestors conquered in France , who herself is a rare Phoenix of her time , with " learning , knowledge , counsel , judgment , and eloquence as well in the Greek , Latin , Italian , French , Dutch , as in our natural ...
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... prince he dedicated his poem -in Latin hexameters — first published at Venice without date , afterwards at Basel in 1552 , and entitled Zodiacus Vitæ , hoc est , De Hominis Vita , Studio , ac Moribus op- time instituendis , Libri XII ...
... prince he dedicated his poem -in Latin hexameters — first published at Venice without date , afterwards at Basel in 1552 , and entitled Zodiacus Vitæ , hoc est , De Hominis Vita , Studio , ac Moribus op- time instituendis , Libri XII ...
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... prince with a great army who was invading the realm of Diana , and who shot her servants down with poisoned arrows . Hippolitus knew Cupid by the description , and was sent out as chieftain to resist and conquer him . He took Abstinence ...
... prince with a great army who was invading the realm of Diana , and who shot her servants down with poisoned arrows . Hippolitus knew Cupid by the description , and was sent out as chieftain to resist and conquer him . He took Abstinence ...
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... prince of dronken oostes . Vpon a camell couchéd hye , for horse coulde none hym beare , A mighty staffe in hande he had , his foes a farre to feare . Behynd them all , the blynded god doth com in charyot fayre , With ragyng flames ...
... prince of dronken oostes . Vpon a camell couchéd hye , for horse coulde none hym beare , A mighty staffe in hande he had , his foes a farre to feare . Behynd them all , the blynded god doth com in charyot fayre , With ragyng flames ...
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... Prince Henry , who in 1547 , as Henry II . , succeeded Francis I. upon the throne of France . Ronsard was but a boy of sixteen when he went to Germany in the train of Lazare de Baïf , ambassador to Spires . There he learnt German , and ...
... Prince Henry , who in 1547 , as Henry II . , succeeded Francis I. upon the throne of France . Ronsard was but a boy of sixteen when he went to Germany in the train of Lazare de Baïf , ambassador to Spires . There he learnt German , and ...
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Page 135 - ... with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner ; and, pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue ; even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome things, by hiding them in such other as have a pleasant taste...
Page 385 - Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That own'd the virtuous ring and glass, And of the wondrous horse of brass, On which the Tartar king did ride...
Page 259 - Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone : regard his hellish fall, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise Only to wonder at unlawful things, Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits To practise more than heavenly power permits.
Page 438 - At length they all to merry London came, To merry London, my most kindly nurse, That to me gave this life's first native source; Though from another place I take my name, An house of ancient fame: There when they came, whereas those bricky tower? The which on Thames...
Page 250 - From jigging veins of rhyming mother wits And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay, We'll lead you to the stately tent of war Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine Threatening the world with high astounding terms And scourging kingdoms with his conquering sword.
Page 346 - How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skies like flying pursuivant, Against foul fiends to aid us militant! They for us fight, they watch and duly ward, And their bright squadrons round about us plant; And all for love, and nothing for reward: O why should Heavenly God to men have such regard ? LONDON: APPROVED SCHOOL BOOKS.
Page 259 - Mountains and hills, come, come, and fall on me, And hide me from the heavy wrath of God ! No, no.
Page 148 - MY mind to me a kingdom is ; Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss That earth affords or grows by kind: Though much I want that most would have, Yet still my mind forbids to crave. No princely pomp, no wealthy store, No force to win the victory, No wily wit to salve a sore, No shape to feed a loving eye; To none of these I yield as thrall ; For why ? my mind doth serve for all.
Page 257 - Why this is hell, nor am I out of it : Think'st thou that I who saw the face of God, And tasted the eternal joys of Heaven, Am not tormented with ten thousand hells, In being deprived of everlasting bliss ? O Faustus!
Page 346 - And is there care in Heaven ? and is there love In heavenly spirits to these creatures base, That may compassion of their evils move ? There is...