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... |
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... Honor .. 325 326 Bacon on Knowledge , ( note ) ... ... ... · ... 282 Doleful Evils of the Press .... 283 ROBERT BOYLE .. Parody on Charles II.'s Speeches ..... 284 Friendship of Marvell and Milton .... 285 His Various Writings .. ..828 ...
... Honor .. 325 326 Bacon on Knowledge , ( note ) ... ... ... · ... 282 Doleful Evils of the Press .... 283 ROBERT BOYLE .. Parody on Charles II.'s Speeches ..... 284 Friendship of Marvell and Milton .... 285 His Various Writings .. ..828 ...
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... honor of having 1 " In all stages of society , those unquestionably deserve the highest praise , who outstep the rest of their contemporaries ; who rise up in solitary majesty amidst a host of prejudices and errors , com- bating ...
... honor of having 1 " In all stages of society , those unquestionably deserve the highest praise , who outstep the rest of their contemporaries ; who rise up in solitary majesty amidst a host of prejudices and errors , com- bating ...
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... honor to the queen Philippa , and a younger sister of the wife of John of Gaunt , Duke of Lancaster . By this connection , therefore , Chaucer acquired the powerful support of the Lancas trian family , and during his life his fortune ...
... honor to the queen Philippa , and a younger sister of the wife of John of Gaunt , Duke of Lancaster . By this connection , therefore , Chaucer acquired the powerful support of the Lancas trian family , and during his life his fortune ...
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... honor to the daisy , some to the Flower and some to the Leaf . Afterward this gentlewoman learneth by one of these ladies the meaning hereof , which is this : they who honor the Flower , a thing fading with every blast , are such as ...
... honor to the daisy , some to the Flower and some to the Leaf . Afterward this gentlewoman learneth by one of these ladies the meaning hereof , which is this : they who honor the Flower , a thing fading with every blast , are such as ...
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... honor were then sent in ; Her ragges they anon off draw , And , as it was that timé law , She haddé bath , she haddé rest , And was arrayed to the best , all except her matted and unsightly hair , which she would not allow them to touch ...
... honor were then sent in ; Her ragges they anon off draw , And , as it was that timé law , She haddé bath , she haddé rest , And was arrayed to the best , all except her matted and unsightly hair , which she would not allow them to touch ...
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Page 597 - The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...
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Page 598 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign' d, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind?
Page 164 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
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Page 598 - Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires; E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of th...
Page 394 - I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow; when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind. When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be...
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