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, Illustrative, and Directing to the Best Editions and to Various Criticisms |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 100
Page 25
... words in Barbour are now obsolete , we will give but one quotation from his heroic poem . After the painful description of the slavery to which Scotland was reduced by Edward I. , he breaks out in the following noble Apostrophe to ...
... words in Barbour are now obsolete , we will give but one quotation from his heroic poem . After the painful description of the slavery to which Scotland was reduced by Edward I. , he breaks out in the following noble Apostrophe to ...
Page 42
... words than facts , arising from the different definitions of the word PRINTING . If the honor is to be awarded from the discovery of the principle , it is unquestionably due to Lawrence Coster , of Haarlem , who first found out the ...
... words than facts , arising from the different definitions of the word PRINTING . If the honor is to be awarded from the discovery of the principle , it is unquestionably due to Lawrence Coster , of Haarlem , who first found out the ...
Page 54
... words at the stake . Rome thunder'd death , but Tyndale's dauntless eye Look'd in death's face and smiled , death standing by . In spite of Ronie , for England's faith he stood , And in the flames he seal'd it with his blood . It rests ...
... words at the stake . Rome thunder'd death , but Tyndale's dauntless eye Look'd in death's face and smiled , death standing by . In spite of Ronie , for England's faith he stood , And in the flames he seal'd it with his blood . It rests ...
Page 58
... words , such words as none can tell ; The tress also should be of crisped1 gold . With wit , and these , might chance I might be tied , And knit again the knot that should not slide . OF THE MEAN AND SURE ESTATE . Stand whoso list ...
... words , such words as none can tell ; The tress also should be of crisped1 gold . With wit , and these , might chance I might be tied , And knit again the knot that should not slide . OF THE MEAN AND SURE ESTATE . Stand whoso list ...
Contents
17 | |
23 | |
29 | |
38 | |
47 | |
64 | |
70 | |
80 | |
93 | |
109 | |
159 | |
179 | |
186 | |
199 | |
211 | |
221 | |
232 | |
468 | |
489 | |
566 | |
585 | |
674 | |
684 | |
695 | |
712 | |
760 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
admirable beauty Ben Jonson better blessing born called Castara character Chaucer Christian church death delight divine doth earth Edinburgh Review England English English language English literature English Poetry excellent eyes Faerie Queene fair fame fancy father fear flowers fortune genius Giles Fletcher give glory grace hand happy hast hath hear heart heaven holy honor hope human king labor lady language learning live look Lord Lycidas manner Milton mind moral nature never night noble o'er passion PHINEAS FLETCHER pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope praise prince prose Queen religion rich says Scripture shade Shakspeare Sir Patrick Spens song soon soul spirit style sweet taste tears tell thee things Thomas Fuller Thomas Warton thou thought tion truth unto verse virtue WILLIAM HABINGTON words writing