England, Literary and Social, from a German Point of ViewR. Bentley & son, 1875 - 442 sivua |
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Sivu 32
... poets depicted in vivid tints all the wide variety of human manners and fortunes , and English thinkers aspired to know or dared to doubt , where bigots had been content to wonder and believe . The same age which produced the Black 32 ...
... poets depicted in vivid tints all the wide variety of human manners and fortunes , and English thinkers aspired to know or dared to doubt , where bigots had been content to wonder and believe . The same age which produced the Black 32 ...
Sivu 37
... poet in his old age . Hither , we suppose , he withdrew himself from a life of bustle to a quiet house which had been bestowed upon him in the charming neighbourhood of the royal forests , and here he wrote the ' Canterbury Tales'— " In ...
... poet in his old age . Hither , we suppose , he withdrew himself from a life of bustle to a quiet house which had been bestowed upon him in the charming neighbourhood of the royal forests , and here he wrote the ' Canterbury Tales'— " In ...
Sivu 39
... poet of the eighteenth century , Mark Aken- side , composed an inscription for an imaginary statue of the poet at Woodstock , which contains the lines- " Such was old Chaucer . • Here he dwelt For many a cheerful day . These ancient ...
... poet of the eighteenth century , Mark Aken- side , composed an inscription for an imaginary statue of the poet at Woodstock , which contains the lines- " Such was old Chaucer . • Here he dwelt For many a cheerful day . These ancient ...
Sivu 41
... poet ; but it is possible that he began it here . For that the two strips of parchment which Mr. Bond discovered in the British Museum give us welcome support . The household of the Prince Lionel and of the Countess Elizabeth at that ...
... poet ; but it is possible that he began it here . For that the two strips of parchment which Mr. Bond discovered in the British Museum give us welcome support . The household of the Prince Lionel and of the Countess Elizabeth at that ...
Sivu 42
... poet have made the Duke's acquaintance , whose marriage he sung ; just as he afterwards dedicates to the early death of the Duchess an expression of sorrow in a poem , ' Book of the Duchess . ' In the year 1359 - the year with which his ...
... poet have made the Duke's acquaintance , whose marriage he sung ; just as he afterwards dedicates to the early death of the Duchess an expression of sorrow in a poem , ' Book of the Duchess . ' In the year 1359 - the year with which his ...
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Abbey appeared Athenæum Beau Brummel beautiful Blackfriars Theatre blue called Canterbury Canterbury Tales castle Cathedral century Chaucer Christian church City club coach coffee coffee-houses colour Countess Court Cromwell D'Israeli dark Duke England English famous favour Furness Abbey garden gentleman Geoffrey Chaucer German Globe Theatre green ground hand highroad honour horses house of Rothschild Jewish Jews Kent King lady lake land literature London Lord Menasseh Menasseh ben Israel ment mountains Nathan Meyer Ned Ward neighbourhood never Newby Bridge night nobility noble once palace Parliament Paul's play poem poet poetry political present day Prince Queen railway rich road Rothschild Samson Gideon says scarcely Shakspeare Shakspeare's side smoke society Spectator stage stands stone stood streets Tatler tavern theatre tion took town traveller trees walls Whigs whilst whole wonderful words young
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Sivu 69 - Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That owned the virtuous ring and glass, And of the wondrous horse of brass, On which the Tartar king did ride...
Sivu 180 - All accounts of gallantry, pleasure, and entertainment shall be under the article of White's Chocolate-house; poetry, under that of Will's Coffee-house; learning, under the title of (\. ' Grecian; foreign and domestic news you will have from St. James's Coffee-house; and what else I shall on any other subject offer, shall be dated from my own apartment.
Sivu 181 - This place is very much altered since Mr. Dryden frequented it ; where you used to see songs, epigrams, and satires in the hands of every man you met, you have now only a pack of cards ; and instead of the cavils about the turn of the expression, the elegance of the style, and the like, the learned now dispute only about the truth of the game.
Sivu 19 - At length we stopped before a very old house bulging out over the road ; a house with long low lattice-windows bulging out still farther, and beams with carved heads on the ends bulging out too, so that I fancied the whole house was leaning forward, trying to see who was passing on the narrow pavement below.
Sivu 171 - I first of all called in at St. James's, where I found the whole outward Room in a Buzz of Politics. The Speculations were but very indifferent towards the Door, but grew finer as you advanced to the upper end of the Room, and were so...
Sivu 361 - On the best lines of communication the ruts were deep, the descents precipitous, and the way often such as it was hardly possible to distinguish, in the dusk, from the uninclosed heath and fen which lay on both sides.
Sivu 314 - The points of difference between Christianity and Judaism have very much to do with a man's fitness to Je a bishop or a rabbi. But they have no more to do with his fitness to be a magistrate, a legislator, or a minister of finance, than with his fitness to be a cobbler.
Sivu 123 - But on the very rushes where the comedy is to dance, yea, and under the state of Cambyses himself, must our feathered estrich, like a piece of ordnance, be planted valiantly, because impudently, beating down the mews and hisses of the opposed rascality.
Sivu 27 - Some menacing expressions which they had dropped gave a suspicion of their design ; and the king dispatched a messenger after them, charging them to attempt nothing against the person of the primate : but these orders arrived too late to prevent their fatal purpose.
Sivu 246 - The two great national theatres on one side, a churchyard full of mouldy but undying celebrities on the other ; a fringe of houses studded in every part with anecdote...