The Harvard Classics, Band 39P.F. Collier & son, 1909 |
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... continued by the space of 30 years for the most part in the countries of Brabant , Flanders , Holland , and Zealand . And thus when all these things came before me , after that I had made and written five or six quires I fell in despair ...
... continued by the space of 30 years for the most part in the countries of Brabant , Flanders , Holland , and Zealand . And thus when all these things came before me , after that I had made and written five or six quires I fell in despair ...
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... as much as I suppose the said two books be not had before this time in our English language , therefore I had the better will to accomplish this said work ; which work was begun in Bruges and continued HISTORIES OF TROY.
... as much as I suppose the said two books be not had before this time in our English language , therefore I had the better will to accomplish this said work ; which work was begun in Bruges and continued HISTORIES OF TROY.
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work ; which work was begun in Bruges and continued in Ghent and finished in Cologne , in the time of the troublous world , and of the great divisions being and reigning , as well in the royaumes of England and France as in all other ...
work ; which work was begun in Bruges and continued in Ghent and finished in Cologne , in the time of the troublous world , and of the great divisions being and reigning , as well in the royaumes of England and France as in all other ...
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... continued to influence the Scottish national char acter to the present day . His preface , which is printed here in the original Scottish spelling , gives some indication of the sternness , not to say viru . lence , of his temper ...
... continued to influence the Scottish national char acter to the present day . His preface , which is printed here in the original Scottish spelling , gives some indication of the sternness , not to say viru . lence , of his temper ...
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... continued allegory , or darke conceit , I have thought good , as well for avoyding of gealous opinions and misconstructions , as also for your better light in reading thereof , ( being so by you com- manded , ) to discover unto you the ...
... continued allegory , or darke conceit , I have thought good , as well for avoyding of gealous opinions and misconstructions , as also for your better light in reading thereof , ( being so by you com- manded , ) to discover unto you the ...
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Seite 310 - Go to the Ant, thou Sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise: which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
Seite 217 - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment...
Seite 261 - Notes are often necessary, but they are necessary evils. Let him, that is yet unacquainted with the powers of Shakespeare, and who desires to feel the highest pleasure that the drama can give, read every play from the first scene to the last, with utter negligence of all his commentators.
Seite 174 - But enough of this : there is such a variety of game springing up before me, that I am distracted in my choice, and know not which to follow. Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.
Seite 322 - She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
Seite 220 - Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest ; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth.
Seite 301 - ... the emotion is contemplated till by a species of reaction the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which was before the subject of contemplation, is gradually produced, and does itself actually exist in the mind. In this mood successful composition generally begins, and in a mood similar to this it is carried on...
Seite 182 - I shall say the less of Mr Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
Seite 220 - Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern j writers, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his / readers a faithful mirrour of manners and of life. His ^ characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world; by the peculiarities of studies or professions, which can operate but upon small numbers; or by the accidents of transient fashions or temporary opinions: they are the genuine progeny of common humanity, such as the world...
Seite 173 - He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive nature, because, as it has been truly observed of him, he has taken into the compass of his " Canterbury Tales" the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation, in his age.