English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature, Volume 9Cassell, limited, 1892 - English literature |
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... Beauty " Astrophel " ... ... ... PAGE 437 ... 437-439 ... 439-442 ... ... ... 442—444 ... ... ... ... 444-447 447-449 Fragment of a Seventh Book of " The Faerie Queene " ... " View of the Present State of Ireland " End of the Life of ...
... Beauty " Astrophel " ... ... ... PAGE 437 ... 437-439 ... 439-442 ... ... ... 442—444 ... ... ... ... 444-447 447-449 Fragment of a Seventh Book of " The Faerie Queene " ... " View of the Present State of Ireland " End of the Life of ...
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... Beauty a mere vanity , but the woman that feareth the Lord is beloved . " God , says van der Noodt , has lightened the queen with His Holy Spirit , and chosen her " especially to be His champion , to defend His beloved Church . " Never ...
... Beauty a mere vanity , but the woman that feareth the Lord is beloved . " God , says van der Noodt , has lightened the queen with His Holy Spirit , and chosen her " especially to be His champion , to defend His beloved Church . " Never ...
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... beauty of old homely words that had been dropped . He proved the grace and strength that could be put into a line of little words , home grown , and mostly of one syllable . In doing this he chose the words that were to his own ear ...
... beauty of old homely words that had been dropped . He proved the grace and strength that could be put into a line of little words , home grown , and mostly of one syllable . In doing this he chose the words that were to his own ear ...
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... Beauty , which he published only in his later life with addition of other two Hymns to the heavenly Love and Beauty . When he left England , Spenser had not even cared to proceed to actual issue of the volume of " Dreames " -first ...
... Beauty , which he published only in his later life with addition of other two Hymns to the heavenly Love and Beauty . When he left England , Spenser had not even cared to proceed to actual issue of the volume of " Dreames " -first ...
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... beauty taught the beholders chastity ? " When these shepherds saw the wreck of the burnt ship— “ " a waste of fire in the midst of the water " -and the blood of slain men on the waters , we are told that " a little way off they saw the ...
... beauty taught the beholders chastity ? " When these shepherds saw the wreck of the burnt ship— “ " a waste of fire in the midst of the water " -and the blood of slain men on the waters , we are told that " a little way off they saw the ...
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Page 379 - 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 owned the virtuous ring and glass, And of the wondrous horse of brass, On which the Tartar king did ride...
Page 197 - At cards for kisses — Cupid paid ; He stakes his quiver, bow and arrows, His mother's doves, and team of sparrows ; Loses them too ; then down he throws The coral of his lip...
Page 255 - 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 441 - Then gin I thinke on that which Nature sayd, Of that same time when no more Change shall be, But stedfast rest of all things, firmely stayd Upon the pillours of Eternity, That is contrayr to Mutabilitie ; For all that moveth doth in Change delight : But thence-forth all shall rest eternally With Him that is the God of Sabaoth hight : O ! that great Sabaoth God, grant me that Sabaoths sight ! COMPLAINT OF THALIA (COMEDY).
Page 432 - 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 246 - 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 255 - Mountains and hills, come, come, and fall on me, And hide me from the heavy wrath of God ! No, no.
Page 146 - 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 340 - 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...
Page 312 - So in the person of Prince Arthure I sette forth magnificence in particular, which vertue, for that (according to Aristotle and the rest) it is the perfection of all the rest, and conteineth in it them all...