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... verses , it was supposed to be in prose , until 1775 , when Tyrwhitt discovered that it was in verse . Since the announcement of this discovery , the Ormulum has attracted increasing attention , as an important document in early English ...
... verses , it was supposed to be in prose , until 1775 , when Tyrwhitt discovered that it was in verse . Since the announcement of this discovery , the Ormulum has attracted increasing attention , as an important document in early English ...
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... verse , in the Ormulum , does not rhyme , nor has it the Saxon alliteration , but it is metrical throughout , and ... verse we wait for the rhyme . It is a peculiar and not unpleasing form of blank verse . The Ancren Riwle . 46 ...
... verse , in the Ormulum , does not rhyme , nor has it the Saxon alliteration , but it is metrical throughout , and ... verse we wait for the rhyme . It is a peculiar and not unpleasing form of blank verse . The Ancren Riwle . 46 ...
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... verse . Origin of the Romance . — Metrical romances were first brought into England by the Normans . Works of this kind were immensely popular , both in France and England . At length , when the govern- ing race in England began to use ...
... verse . Origin of the Romance . — Metrical romances were first brought into England by the Normans . Works of this kind were immensely popular , both in France and England . At length , when the govern- ing race in England began to use ...
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... verse seemed for a time to hang in the balance . But in truth the English people had at that time pretty much forgotten the Anglo - Saxon verse . The national ear , from the first beginnings of the new life , after the blending of ...
... verse seemed for a time to hang in the balance . But in truth the English people had at that time pretty much forgotten the Anglo - Saxon verse . The national ear , from the first beginnings of the new life , after the blending of ...
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... verse , is an important historical document , being a metrical chronicle of the great Scottish hero , written soon after his death , and while the facts were still fresh in the minds of all . It is indeed a complete history of the ...
... verse , is an important historical document , being a metrical chronicle of the great Scottish hero , written soon after his death , and while the facts were still fresh in the minds of all . It is indeed a complete history of the ...
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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.
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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,...
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