Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of British Authors, with Specimens of Their Writings, Volume 1Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers W. & R. Chambers, 1876 |
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... POETS ........ Oldest Fragment of Scottish Poetry JOHN BARBOUR ( circa 1316—1395 ) .. Apostrophe to Freedom .. Extract from Christ's Kirk of the Green .. 40 22 BLIND HARRY ( died after 1492 ) .. 40 22 Storming of Dunnottar Castle . 40 ...
... POETS ........ Oldest Fragment of Scottish Poetry JOHN BARBOUR ( circa 1316—1395 ) .. Apostrophe to Freedom .. Extract from Christ's Kirk of the Green .. 40 22 BLIND HARRY ( died after 1492 ) .. 40 22 Storming of Dunnottar Castle . 40 ...
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... poetry was long prevalent in the Highlands , some of which Macpherson collected and expanded into regular poems - nay , epics ; and many Celtic fragments have since been published in Íreland , describing the Fenian wars and the ...
... poetry was long prevalent in the Highlands , some of which Macpherson collected and expanded into regular poems - nay , epics ; and many Celtic fragments have since been published in Íreland , describing the Fenian wars and the ...
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... poetry . Of these , the second alone , I think , can be considered as sufficient to describe a new form of language ; and this was brought about so gradually , that we are not relieved of much of our difficulty , whether some ...
... poetry . Of these , the second alone , I think , can be considered as sufficient to describe a new form of language ; and this was brought about so gradually , that we are not relieved of much of our difficulty , whether some ...
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... poet . He had none of the chivalrous sentiment or gay fancy of his great contemporary Chaucer . Langland thus closes his ... poetry of England . Henceforward , his native style , which Spenser terms ' the pure well of English undefiled ...
... poet . He had none of the chivalrous sentiment or gay fancy of his great contemporary Chaucer . Langland thus closes his ... poetry of England . Henceforward , his native style , which Spenser terms ' the pure well of English undefiled ...
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... poet regained , for a brief space , a share of the royal favour . In July 1389 he was appointed clerk of the king's works at Westminster , the Tower of London , and Windsor . * His salary was two shillings a day , with power to appoint ...
... poet regained , for a brief space , a share of the royal favour . In July 1389 he was appointed clerk of the king's works at Westminster , the Tower of London , and Windsor . * His salary was two shillings a day , with power to appoint ...
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Page 277 - WHEN I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he, returning, chide, "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?
Page 329 - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that eternal spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 382 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Page 150 - If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle : I remember The first time ever Caesar put it on ; Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent, That day he overcame the Nervii. Look ! in this place, ran Cassius...
Page 276 - MAY MORNING. Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire ; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long.
Page 95 - Sigh, no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever ; One foot in sea, and one on shore ; To one thing constant never : Then sigh not so, But let them go, And be you blithe and bonny ; Converting all your sounds of woe Into Hey nonny, nonny.
Page 149 - Therefore, the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods Since nought so stockish, hard, and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils ; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.
Page 330 - And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Page 148 - tis not to me she speaks: Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, Having some business, do entreat her eyes To twinkle in their spheres till they return. What if her eyes were there, they in her head? The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars, As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven Would through the airy region stream so bright That birds would sing and think it were not night.
Page 231 - Sweet Day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet Spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My music shows ye have your closes, And all must die. Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like seasoned timber, never gives ; But though the whole world turn to coal, Then...