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... History of the Britons . It contained all sorts of incredible stories and fables , classical , Christian and heathen , the offspring of an imaginative people , among wild scenery , in an early stage of society . As history it is ...
... History of the Britons . It contained all sorts of incredible stories and fables , classical , Christian and heathen , the offspring of an imaginative people , among wild scenery , in an early stage of society . As history it is ...
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... history of British affairs , from the imaginary Brutus of Troy down to the death of Henry III . , A. D. 1272. The first part is a translation from Geoffrey of Monmouth . In later portions of his Chronicle he draws upon more trustworthy ...
... history of British affairs , from the imaginary Brutus of Troy down to the death of Henry III . , A. D. 1272. The first part is a translation from Geoffrey of Monmouth . In later portions of his Chronicle he draws upon more trustworthy ...
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... history of English literature . These are CHAUCER , GOWER , PIERS PLOWMAN , WYCKLIFFE , and SIR JOHN MANDEVILLE ... History . The personal history of Chaucer is involved. CHAUCER AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES . THE AGE BEFORE SPENSER . 335.
... history of English literature . These are CHAUCER , GOWER , PIERS PLOWMAN , WYCKLIFFE , and SIR JOHN MANDEVILLE ... History . The personal history of Chaucer is involved. CHAUCER AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES . THE AGE BEFORE SPENSER . 335.
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... history , is one commonly known as Piers Plowman . It was completed about the same time as The Canterbury Tales , but is in many respects in striking contrast with that great work . Piers Plowman is an allegorical and satirical poem ...
... history , is one commonly known as Piers Plowman . It was completed about the same time as The Canterbury Tales , but is in many respects in striking contrast with that great work . Piers Plowman is an allegorical and satirical poem ...
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... History . Lindsay's personal history , as well as his poetry , is intimately mingled with the affairs of the Scottish Court , and particularly with those of his sovereign , James V. While James was a boy , Lindsay was his attendant ...
... History . Lindsay's personal history , as well as his poetry , is intimately mingled with the affairs of the Scottish Court , and particularly with those of his sovereign , James V. While James was a boy , Lindsay was his attendant ...
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Page 273 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Page 234 - Scriblerus was to have ridiculed all the false tastes in learning, under the character of a man of capacity enough ; that had dipped into every art and science, but injudiciously in each.
Page 209 - An apology for the true Christian divinity as the same is held forth and preached by the people called in scorn Quakers...
Page 428 - Life! we've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather ; 'Tis hard to part when friends are dear — Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear ; — Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time ; Say not Good Night, — but in some brighter clime Bid me Good Morning.
Page 130 - But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters' pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.
Page 130 - With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light: There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced choir below, In service high, and anthems clear, As may with sweetness through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes.
Page 78 - My ancestors are turned to clay, And many of my mates are gone ; My youngers daily drop away, And can I think to 'scape alone ? No, no, I know that I must die, And yet my life amend not I.
Page 319 - Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it a dull book, (as such books generally are,) and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch for me ; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry.
Page 98 - CXLVI. Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth, Fool'd by those rebel powers that thee array, Why dost thou pine within, and suffer dearth, Painting thy outward walls so costly gay ? Why so large cost, having so short a lease, Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend ? Shall worms, inheritors of this excess, Eat up thy charge ? Is this thy body's end ? Then, soul, live thou upon thy servant's loss, And let that pine to aggravate thy store ; Buy terms divine in selling hours of dross ; Within be fed,...
Page 62 - There is one that passeth all the other, and is the most diligent prelate and preacher in all England. And will ye know who it is? I will tell you: It is the devil. He is the most diligent preacher of all other ; he is never out of his diocese...