The Indicator and the Companion: A Miscellany for the Fields and Fire-side, Volume 1H. Colburn, 1835 |
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... Chaucer's contemporary , Gower ; and from an inn in the Borough , the existence of which is still boasted , and the site pointed out by a picture and inscription , Chaucer sets out his pil- grims and himself on their famous road to ...
... Chaucer's contemporary , Gower ; and from an inn in the Borough , the existence of which is still boasted , and the site pointed out by a picture and inscription , Chaucer sets out his pil- grims and himself on their famous road to ...
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... Chaucer , who is also said , upon the strength of an old record , to have been fined two shillings for beating a Franciscan friar in Fleet - street . square lived Sir Joshua Reynolds and Hogarth . Dryden lived 24 THE INDICATOR .
... Chaucer , who is also said , upon the strength of an old record , to have been fined two shillings for beating a Franciscan friar in Fleet - street . square lived Sir Joshua Reynolds and Hogarth . Dryden lived 24 THE INDICATOR .
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... Chaucer's has existed as a piece of local humour for nearly four hundred and fifty years . Speaking of the Prioress , who makes such a delicate figure among his Canterbury Pilgrims , he tells us , in the list of her accomplishments ...
... Chaucer's has existed as a piece of local humour for nearly four hundred and fifty years . Speaking of the Prioress , who makes such a delicate figure among his Canterbury Pilgrims , he tells us , in the list of her accomplishments ...
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... Chaucer or Spenser , or bid Beaumont lie A little further , to make thee a room ; Thou art a monument without a tomb ; And art alive still , while thy book doth live , And we have wits to read , and praise to give . . He was not of an ...
... Chaucer or Spenser , or bid Beaumont lie A little further , to make thee a room ; Thou art a monument without a tomb ; And art alive still , while thy book doth live , And we have wits to read , and praise to give . . He was not of an ...
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... Chaucer's Knight had been Sometime with the lord of Palatie Agen another hethen in Turkie : And evermore he had a sovereign price ; And though that he was worthy , he was wise , And of his port as meek as is a mayde . How like a return ...
... Chaucer's Knight had been Sometime with the lord of Palatie Agen another hethen in Turkie : And evermore he had a sovereign price ; And though that he was worthy , he was wise , And of his port as meek as is a mayde . How like a return ...
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Page 105 - Are those her ribs through which the Sun Did peer, as through a grate? And is that Woman all her crew? Is that a DEATH? and are there two? Is DEATH that woman's mate?
Page 241 - Sirens' harmony, That sit upon the nine infolded spheres, And sing to those that hold the vital shears, And turn the adamantine spindle round, On which the fate of Gods and men is wound. Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie, To lull the daughters of Necessity, And keep unsteady Nature to her law, And the low world in measured motion draw After the heavenly tune, which none can hear Of human mould, with gross unpurged ear...
Page 259 - Saturn laughed and leaped with him. Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue, Could make me any summer's story tell: Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew: Nor did...
Page 48 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances. Shakespeare with the English man-ofwar, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Page 287 - She found me roots of relish sweet, And honey wild, and manna dew, And sure in language strange she said — "I love thee true.
Page 287 - La Belle Dame sans Merci Hath thee in thrall!" I saw their starved lips in the gloam With horrid warning gaped wide, And I awoke and found me here On the cold hill's side. And this is why I sojourn here Alone and palely loitering, Though the sedge is wither'd from the lake, And no birds sing.
Page 267 - 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.
Page 260 - Such seems your beauty still. Three winters cold Have from the forests shook three summers...
Page 105 - The western wave was all a-flame; The day was well nigh done! Almost upon the western wave Rested the broad bright Sun; When that strange shape drove suddenly Betwixt us and the Sun.
Page 8 - Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold, The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook...