Amenities of Literature: Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature, Volume 1J. & H. G. Langley, 1841 - Authors, English |
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... described as “ an ancient people whose name is unknown . " In the pride of erudition , and the irascibility of confutation , they have in- volved themselves in interminable discussions , yet one might be seduced to adopt any hypothesis ...
... described as “ an ancient people whose name is unknown . " In the pride of erudition , and the irascibility of confutation , they have in- volved themselves in interminable discussions , yet one might be seduced to adopt any hypothesis ...
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... described as of " hateful hue and hateful form . " The British poet delights to paint " a Saxon shivering and quaking , his white hair washed in blood ; " and another sings how " close upon the backs of the pale - faced ones were the ...
... described as of " hateful hue and hateful form . " The British poet delights to paint " a Saxon shivering and quaking , his white hair washed in blood ; " and another sings how " close upon the backs of the pale - faced ones were the ...
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... described this poetry or metre as " a rhymeless sort of poetry , a kind of bombast or insane prose , from which it is very difficult to be distinguished . " TYRWHIT and ELLIS remained wholly at a loss to comprehend the fabric of Anglo ...
... described this poetry or metre as " a rhymeless sort of poetry , a kind of bombast or insane prose , from which it is very difficult to be distinguished . " TYRWHIT and ELLIS remained wholly at a loss to comprehend the fabric of Anglo ...
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... described . " - Hist . of England , i . , 162. Thus , the Saxon Milton rose in one memorable night after a whole life passed without the poet once surmising himself to be poetical ; and thus , for we consent not to yield up a single ...
... described . " - Hist . of England , i . , 162. Thus , the Saxon Milton rose in one memorable night after a whole life passed without the poet once surmising himself to be poetical ; and thus , for we consent not to yield up a single ...
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... described among the Jewish traditions than yet appears ; because we find allusions to it in two of the apostolical writings . In the Epistle of Jude , ver 6 : " The angels which kept not their first estate , but left their own ...
... described among the Jewish traditions than yet appears ; because we find allusions to it in two of the apostolical writings . In the Epistle of Jude , ver 6 : " The angels which kept not their first estate , but left their own ...
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Page 87 - JE ne suis pas de ceux qui disent : Ce n'est rien, C'est une femme qui se noie. Je dis que c'est beaucoup; et ce sexe vaut bien Que nous le regrettions, puisqu'il fait notre joie.
Page 49 - In billows, leave i' the midst a horrid vale. Then with expanded wings he steers his flight Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air That felt unusual weight, till on dry land He lights, if it were land that ever...
Page 46 - And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness, unto the judgment of the great day.
Page 8 - CELTIC DRUIDS; Or, an Attempt to show that the Druids were the Priests of Oriental Colonies, who emigrated from India, and were the Introducers of the First or Cadmean System of Letters, and the Builders of Stonehenge, of Carnac, and of other Cyclopean works in Asia and Europe.
Page 1 - But his learned and able (though unfortunate) successor, is he who hath filled up all numbers, and performed that in our tongue, which may be compared or preferred either to insolent Greece, or haughty Rome.
Page 237 - And certainly our language now used varieth far from that which was used and spoken when I was born...
Page 224 - It is a very striking circumstance, that the high-minded inventors of this great art tried at the very outset so bold a flight as the printing an entire Bible, and executed it with astonishing success. It was Minerva leaping on earth in her divine strength and radiant armor, ready at the moment of her nativity to subdue and destroy her enemies.
Page 48 - That with reiterated crimes he might Heap on himself damnation, while he sought Evil to others...
Page 48 - Are brought; and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce ; From beds of raging fire, to starve in ice...
Page 332 - This neglect then of rime so little is to be taken for a defect, though it may seem so perhaps to vulgar readers, that it rather is to be esteemed an example set, the first in English, of ancient liberty recovered to heroic poem from the troublesome and modern bondage of riming.