English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature, Volume 9Cassell, limited, 1892 - English literature |
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... passed from me , In all the storms that winter's blasts bespread Through swelling seas and lofty mountains high , Of Pyrenei the paths unknown to tread- Whose great goodwill I keep , and in his place His verses crave to represent his ...
... passed from me , In all the storms that winter's blasts bespread Through swelling seas and lofty mountains high , Of Pyrenei the paths unknown to tread- Whose great goodwill I keep , and in his place His verses crave to represent his ...
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... passing skill is with him fled , The fame whereof doth daily greater grow . But if on me some little drops would flow Of that the spring was in his learned head , I soon would learn these woods to wail my woe , And teach the trees their ...
... passing skill is with him fled , The fame whereof doth daily greater grow . But if on me some little drops would flow Of that the spring was in his learned head , I soon would learn these woods to wail my woe , And teach the trees their ...
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... passing and the day turns dark . Ill - natured adversaries gave him a bad name , and because he was of no man's ... passed as exile from Ferrara to Venice . Then he returned to France , and in 1537 was in favour again at Court . But ...
... passing and the day turns dark . Ill - natured adversaries gave him a bad name , and because he was of no man's ... passed as exile from Ferrara to Venice . Then he returned to France , and in 1537 was in favour again at Court . But ...
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... passed between Spenser and Harvey , and were published in 1580 . Spenser and Harvey were of like age , but Spenser went to Cambridge two years later . Harvey must have gone to Cambridge from Saffron Walden at the not un- Spenser and ...
... passed between Spenser and Harvey , and were published in 1580 . Spenser and Harvey were of like age , but Spenser went to Cambridge two years later . Harvey must have gone to Cambridge from Saffron Walden at the not un- Spenser and ...
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... passed betvveene tvvo Vni- uersitie men touching the Earthquake in Aprill last , and our English refourmed Versifying . With the Preface of a well - willer to them both . " After the preface , which is dated the nineteenth of June ...
... passed betvveene tvvo Vni- uersitie men touching the Earthquake in Aprill last , and our English refourmed Versifying . With the Preface of a well - willer to them both . " After the preface , which is dated the nineteenth of June ...
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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...