From Chaucer to Tennyson: With Twenty-nine Portraits and Selections from Thirty AuthorsFlood and Vincent, 1894 - 313 pages |
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... pure Saxon English with hardly any French words . The style is rude but vigorous , and , at times , highly imaginative . Wace had amplified Geoffrey's chronicle somewhat , but Layamon made much larger additions , derived , no doubt ...
... pure Saxon English with hardly any French words . The style is rude but vigorous , and , at times , highly imaginative . Wace had amplified Geoffrey's chronicle somewhat , but Layamon made much larger additions , derived , no doubt ...
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... pure literature , and are re- markable only as early , though not very good , examples of English prose in a barren time . The 15th century was an era of decay and change . The Middle Age was dying , Church and State were slowly ...
... pure literature , and are re- markable only as early , though not very good , examples of English prose in a barren time . The 15th century was an era of decay and change . The Middle Age was dying , Church and State were slowly ...
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... pure imagination . His aerial creations re- semble the blossoms of the epiphytic orchids , which have not root in the soil , but draw their nourishment from the moist- ure of the air . Their birth was of the womb of morning dew , And ...
... pure imagination . His aerial creations re- semble the blossoms of the epiphytic orchids , which have not root in the soil , but draw their nourishment from the moist- ure of the air . Their birth was of the womb of morning dew , And ...
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... pure litera- ture , the most important was Richard Hooker's Ecclesias- tical Polity , the first four books of which appeared in 1594 . This was a work on the philosophy of law , and a defense , as against the Presbyterians , of the ...
... pure litera- ture , the most important was Richard Hooker's Ecclesias- tical Polity , the first four books of which appeared in 1594 . This was a work on the philosophy of law , and a defense , as against the Presbyterians , of the ...
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... pure thought , touched gravely and afar off by emotion . In general , the atmosphere of his intellect is that lumen siccum which he loved to commend , " not drenched or bloodied by the affec- tions . " Dr. Johnson said that the wine of ...
... pure thought , touched gravely and afar off by emotion . In general , the atmosphere of his intellect is that lumen siccum which he loved to commend , " not drenched or bloodied by the affec- tions . " Dr. Johnson said that the wine of ...
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Page 282 - Ah! then and there was hurrying to and fro. And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress. And cheeks all pale, which but an hour ago Blushed at the praise of their own loveliness: And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts; and choking sighs, Which ne'er might be repeated...
Page 282 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war...
Page 295 - Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend? For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.
Page 259 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place; Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.
Page 244 - Gently o'er the accustom'd oak. Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among, ' I woo, to hear thy even-song; And, missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless way, And oft, as if her head she bow'd, Stooping through a fleecy cloud.
Page 247 - Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Page 260 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.
Page 238 - To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them...
Page 302 - OH, TO BE in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England - now...
Page 283 - THOU still unravish'd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In Tempe or the dales of Arcady ? What men or gods are these?