A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John Mandeville to William Cowper : Consisting of Biographical Sketches of the Authors, Selections from Their Works, with Notes, Explanatory and Illustrative, and Directing to the Best Editions and to Various Criticisms : Designed as a Text Book for the the Highest Classes in Schools and for Junior Classes in Colleges, as Well as for Private Reading |
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Fame to be kept bright by Activity . 141 Scorn not the least . . . . The
Commonwealth of Beeg . . . . . . . . . . 142 Content and Rich . . . . . . . Prose - Mary
Magdalen ' s Tearg . . . . BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER . . . . . . . • 173 Life hath no
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Fame to be kept bright by Activity . 141 Scorn not the least . . . . The
Commonwealth of Beeg . . . . . . . . . . 142 Content and Rich . . . . . . . Prose - Mary
Magdalen ' s Tearg . . . . BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER . . . . . . . • 173 Life hath no
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Whenné that April , with his showrés sote , 3 The drouth of March hath pierced to
the rote , And bathéd every vein in such licoúr , Of which virtúe engendred is the
flow ' r ; When Zephirus eké , with his sote3 breath , Inspiréd hath in every holts ...
Whenné that April , with his showrés sote , 3 The drouth of March hath pierced to
the rote , And bathéd every vein in such licoúr , Of which virtúe engendred is the
flow ' r ; When Zephirus eké , with his sote3 breath , Inspiréd hath in every holts ...
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The holy blissful martyr for to seek That them hath holpen when that they were
sick . Befell that in that season on a dav , In Southwark at the Tabard as I lay ,
Ready to wenden ? on my pilgrimage To Canterbury with devout courage ; At
night ...
The holy blissful martyr for to seek That them hath holpen when that they were
sick . Befell that in that season on a dav , In Southwark at the Tabard as I lay ,
Ready to wenden ? on my pilgrimage To Canterbury with devout courage ; At
night ...
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And when dame Albine was come to that land , and all her sisters , this Albine
went first forth out of the ship , and said to her other sis . ters : For as much , ( said
she , ) as I am the eldest sister of all this company , and first this land hath taken ...
And when dame Albine was come to that land , and all her sisters , this Albine
went first forth out of the ship , and said to her other sis . ters : For as much , ( said
she , ) as I am the eldest sister of all this company , and first this land hath taken ...
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Proud . of the spoil that thou hast got Of simple hearts , thorough Love ' s shot , By
whom unkind thou hast them won ; Think not he hath his bow forgot , Although
my lute and I have done . Vengeance may fall on thy disdain , That makest but ...
Proud . of the spoil that thou hast got Of simple hearts , thorough Love ' s shot , By
whom unkind thou hast them won ; Think not he hath his bow forgot , Although
my lute and I have done . Vengeance may fall on thy disdain , That makest but ...
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Page 600 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind?
Page 599 - Th' applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind.
Page 640 - Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me: lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Page 365 - If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled ; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?
Page 215 - We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring ; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away Like to the Summer's rain ; Or as the pearls of morning's dew, Ne'er to be found again.
Page 749 - And we will then repair Unto the Bell at Edmonton All in a chaise and pair. My sister, and my sister's child, Myself and children three, Will fill the chaise; so you must ride On horseback after we. He soon replied, I do admire Of womankind but one, And you are she, my dearest dear, Therefore it shall be done. • I am a linen-draper bold, As all the world doth know, And my good friend the calender Will lend his horse to go.
Page 598 - Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds ; Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign.
Page 751 - Away went hat and wig; He little dreamt, when he set out, Of running such a rig. The wind did blow, the cloak did fly Like streamer long and gay, Till, loop and button failing both, At last it flew away . Then might all people well discern The bottles he had slung; A bottle swinging at each side, As hath been said or sung. The dogs did bark, the children screamed, Up flew the windows all; And every soul cried out, "Well done!
Page 711 - And decks the lily fair in flowery pride, Would, in the way His wisdom sees the best, For them and for their little ones provide; But chiefly, in their hearts with grace divine preside.
Page 602 - A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales, that from ye blow, A momentary bliss bestow ; As, waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to soothe; And, redolent of Joy and Youth, To breathe a second Spring!
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| Title | A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John Mandeville to William Cowper : Consisting of Biographical Sketches of the Authors, Selections from Their Works, with Notes, Explanatory and Illustrative, and Directing to the Best Editions and to Various Criticisms ... Cleveland's series Series, Charles Dexter Cleveland |
| Author | Charles Dexter Cleveland |
| Publisher | A.S. Barnes & Company, 1872 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 9 Apr 2007 |
| Length | 776 pages |
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