Amenities of Literature: Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature, Volume 1J. & H. G. Langley, 1841 - Authors, English |
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Page 38
... tastes , to have been invented in the wintry years of these climates to amuse themselves in their stern solitudes ? or rather , may we not consider them as a mystery of the Craft , the initiation of the Order ? for , by this scholar ...
... tastes , to have been invented in the wintry years of these climates to amuse themselves in their stern solitudes ? or rather , may we not consider them as a mystery of the Craft , the initiation of the Order ? for , by this scholar ...
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... tastes collected his remains ; PRICE , who had long resided abroad , and there had silently stored up the whole wealth of northern literature , on his return home remained little known till his valued edition of Wharton announced to the ...
... tastes collected his remains ; PRICE , who had long resided abroad , and there had silently stored up the whole wealth of northern literature , on his return home remained little known till his valued edition of Wharton announced to the ...
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... taste of the age . Cadmon was a herdsman who had never read a single poem . Sitting in his " beership , " whenever the circling harp , that " Wood of Joy ! " as the Saxon gleemen have called it , was offered to his hand , all unskilled ...
... taste of the age . Cadmon was a herdsman who had never read a single poem . Sitting in his " beership , " whenever the circling harp , that " Wood of Joy ! " as the Saxon gleemen have called it , was offered to his hand , all unskilled ...
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... tastes disappointed by the culinary artists ; it would seem that this put them into sudden outbreakings of ill - humor , for the proverb records that " the minstrels are often beaten for the faults of the cooks . " Too much leisure ...
... tastes disappointed by the culinary artists ; it would seem that this put them into sudden outbreakings of ill - humor , for the proverb records that " the minstrels are often beaten for the faults of the cooks . " Too much leisure ...
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... adventures of love and gallantry were of a later epoch . In the mutability of taste an extraordinary transition occurred ; after nearly two centuries passed in rhyming , all the verse was to be turned into 92 GOTHIC ROMANCES .
... adventures of love and gallantry were of a later epoch . In the mutability of taste an extraordinary transition occurred ; after nearly two centuries passed in rhyming , all the verse was to be turned into 92 GOTHIC ROMANCES .
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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.