English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature, Volume 9Cassell, limited, 1892 - English literature |
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... faith the true " joys of the faithful . " Jan van der Noodt had credit as a poet with his country- men , and it was usual with him to publish his verses in the language of Brabant , with a French version appended to them . So he ...
... faith the true " joys of the faithful . " Jan van der Noodt had credit as a poet with his country- men , and it was usual with him to publish his verses in the language of Brabant , with a French version appended to them . So he ...
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... especially the followers of Plato . If these be false , it is : they , not I , who should be blamed . For my intention is never to swerve from the Catholic Faith . " His TO A.D. 1577- ] 21 ECLOGUES : BARNABY GOOGE . "The Zodiac of Life"
... especially the followers of Plato . If these be false , it is : they , not I , who should be blamed . For my intention is never to swerve from the Catholic Faith . " His TO A.D. 1577- ] 21 ECLOGUES : BARNABY GOOGE . "The Zodiac of Life"
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... Faith . " His Church did blame him . " The Zodiac of Life , " that boldly condemned , together with the pride of princes spiritual and temporal , the gluttony and idleness of monks , and called them pigs , * was entered at Rome in the ...
... Faith . " His Church did blame him . " The Zodiac of Life , " that boldly condemned , together with the pride of princes spiritual and temporal , the gluttony and idleness of monks , and called them pigs , * was entered at Rome in the ...
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... faith of his Church , his Latin poems contain vigorous attacks on its corruptions . * The works of Mantuan , as printed in the author's lifetime at Bologna , in 1502 , form a folio of 389 leaves , of which the eclogues occupy but twenty ...
... faith of his Church , his Latin poems contain vigorous attacks on its corruptions . * The works of Mantuan , as printed in the author's lifetime at Bologna , in 1502 , form a folio of 389 leaves , of which the eclogues occupy but twenty ...
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... fourth line of the second quatrain the rhyme in the first and third line of the first . Instead of a ba b , bc bc , it is a ba b , b a b a . a large and absolute faith in the genius of his 38 [ A.D. 1571 ENGLISH WRITERS .
... fourth line of the second quatrain the rhyme in the first and third line of the first . Instead of a ba b , bc bc , it is a ba b , b a b a . a large and absolute faith in the genius of his 38 [ A.D. 1571 ENGLISH WRITERS .
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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...