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... JOHN MANDEVILLE , a celebrated tra- veller , and JOHN WICLIFFE , who distinguished himself by his attempts to reform religion . Mandeville travelled for thirty - four years preceding 1356 , in Eastern countries , and on his return wrote ...
... JOHN MANDEVILLE , a celebrated tra- veller , and JOHN WICLIFFE , who distinguished himself by his attempts to reform religion . Mandeville travelled for thirty - four years preceding 1356 , in Eastern countries , and on his return wrote ...
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... JOHN LYDGATE , a monk of Bury , was well known for his poetical compositions , which ranged over a great variety of styles . His muse , ' says Warton in his History of English Poetry , was of universal access ; and he was not only the ...
... JOHN LYDGATE , a monk of Bury , was well known for his poetical compositions , which ranged over a great variety of styles . His muse , ' says Warton in his History of English Poetry , was of universal access ; and he was not only the ...
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... John Skelton , howe- ver , who , though but little remarkable for his rhymes , had a genius which was suited to satire and burlesque , and a spirit which ventured to attack not obscure indi- viduals only , but men of eminence . His ...
... John Skelton , howe- ver , who , though but little remarkable for his rhymes , had a genius which was suited to satire and burlesque , and a spirit which ventured to attack not obscure indi- viduals only , but men of eminence . His ...
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... JOHN LELAND , a Protestant clergyman , who , The largé fludis leaming all of licht , With but ane blink of his supernal sicht . For to behold it was ane glore to see The stabled windis and the coloured sea , The soft season , the ...
... JOHN LELAND , a Protestant clergyman , who , The largé fludis leaming all of licht , With but ane blink of his supernal sicht . For to behold it was ane glore to see The stabled windis and the coloured sea , The soft season , the ...
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... JOHN BEllenden , Arch - dean of Moray , was employed by James V. to translate Hector Boece's History of Scotland , and the works of Livy ; the former was published in 1536 , and is the earliest existing specimen of Scottish literary ...
... JOHN BEllenden , Arch - dean of Moray , was employed by James V. to translate Hector Boece's History of Scotland , and the works of Livy ; the former was published in 1536 , and is the earliest existing specimen of Scottish literary ...
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Page 211 - Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage ; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts ; — not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play, Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow, Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now.
Page 143 - 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.
Page 35 - No longer mourn for me when I am dead, Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell : Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it ; for I love you so, That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, If thinking on me then should make you woe.
Page 144 - The unfeeling for his own. Yet, ah ! why should they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought would destroy their paradise. No more ; — where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.
Page 210 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean - roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin - his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own. When, for a moment, like a drop of rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown.
Page 86 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 111 - And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies. Not louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or when lapdogs breathe their last ; Or when rich China vessels, fall'n from high, In glitt'ring dust and painted fragments lie ! " Let wreaths of triumph now my temples twine...
Page 111 - The berries crackle, and the mill turns round; On shining altars of Japan they raise The silver lamp; the fiery spirits blaze: From silver spouts the grateful liquors glide, While China's earth receives the smoking tide: At once they gratify their scent and taste, And frequent cups prolong the rich repast.
Page 111 - The little engine on his fingers' ends; This just behind Belinda's neck he spread, As o'er the fragrant steams she bends her head. Swift to the lock a thousand sprites repair...
Page 211 - And shake him from thee ; the vile strength he wields For earth's destruction, thou dost all despise, Spurning him from thy bosom to the skies. And send'st him, shivering, in thy playful spray, And howling, to his gods, where haply lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth : there let him lay.