English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature, Volume 9Cassell, limited, 1892 - English literature |
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... written , as its place in the sequence shows , at the close of the year before that in which Spenser was married . It is known that he was married in 1594 ; the sonnet , therefore , was written at the end of the year 1593. The sixty ...
... written , as its place in the sequence shows , at the close of the year before that in which Spenser was married . It is known that he was married in 1594 ; the sonnet , therefore , was written at the end of the year 1593. The sixty ...
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... written by an unknown person at least fifty - perhaps more than a hundred - years after the poet's death . We have to grant , therefore , the possibility of error , when we say that Spenser was born in East Smithfield , near the Tower ...
... written by an unknown person at least fifty - perhaps more than a hundred - years after the poet's death . We have to grant , therefore , the possibility of error , when we say that Spenser was born in East Smithfield , near the Tower ...
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... written , with only a few acts of revision to extend to fourteen lines those " Epigrams ' that were at first written in twelve . After the poems in van der Noodt's book came the prose text , entitled " A Brief Declaration of the Authour ...
... written , with only a few acts of revision to extend to fourteen lines those " Epigrams ' that were at first written in twelve . After the poems in van der Noodt's book came the prose text , entitled " A Brief Declaration of the Authour ...
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... written a Latin book upon England , De Republica Anglorum - died , in 1579 , Harvey wrote his lament called Smithus . A series of Latin poems celebrating notabilities of the queen's visit to Saffron Walden was written by Gabriel Harvey ...
... written a Latin book upon England , De Republica Anglorum - died , in 1579 , Harvey wrote his lament called Smithus . A series of Latin poems celebrating notabilities of the queen's visit to Saffron Walden was written by Gabriel Harvey ...
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... writing came into high favour in Italy , and established itself during the earlier half of the sixteenth century in Spain and France . ‡ In England , Alexander Barclay § with his eclogues , written probably between 1513 and 1516 ...
... writing came into high favour in Italy , and established itself during the earlier half of the sixteenth century in Spain and France . ‡ In England , Alexander Barclay § with his eclogues , written probably between 1513 and 1516 ...
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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...