Among the Great Masters of Literature: Scenes in the Lives of Great AuthorsD. Estes, 1900 - 225 Seiten |
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... never shined : The age wherein he lived was dark ; but he Could not want sight who taught the world to see . " And as to his grave , one ancient poet asseverates : " Blest Isle of Ios ! On thy rocky steeps The Star of Song , the Grace ...
... never shined : The age wherein he lived was dark ; but he Could not want sight who taught the world to see . " And as to his grave , one ancient poet asseverates : " Blest Isle of Ios ! On thy rocky steeps The Star of Song , the Grace ...
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... was very popular , Virgil never forgot his old friends ; and it is pleasant to read that he sent money to his aged parents regularly every year . So highly was he esteemed by his own contemporaries , that on Virgil . 23.
... was very popular , Virgil never forgot his old friends ; and it is pleasant to read that he sent money to his aged parents regularly every year . So highly was he esteemed by his own contemporaries , that on Virgil . 23.
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... ter to bestow , but beyond price to the poet , who so loved a country life , and was never weary of singing the praises of his Sabine farm . Like Virgil , neither a sycophant nor a para- site 24 The Great Masters of Literature .
... ter to bestow , but beyond price to the poet , who so loved a country life , and was never weary of singing the praises of his Sabine farm . Like Virgil , neither a sycophant nor a para- site 24 The Great Masters of Literature .
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... never actually a member of the famous Pre - Raphaelite Brotherhood , and an artist too little known in the United States , sent to the Royal Academy , in 1851 , a painting which he named " Chaucer at the Court of Edward III . " This ...
... never actually a member of the famous Pre - Raphaelite Brotherhood , and an artist too little known in the United States , sent to the Royal Academy , in 1851 , a painting which he named " Chaucer at the Court of Edward III . " This ...
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... ruary , in the year of our Lord God 1595 , of All the time of her servant of her good her age LX and three . LX and three . life a true and faithfull 1 God , never detected of any crime or vice ; 76 The Great Masters of Literature .
... ruary , in the year of our Lord God 1595 , of All the time of her servant of her good her age LX and three . LX and three . life a true and faithfull 1 God , never detected of any crime or vice ; 76 The Great Masters of Literature .
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
admiration Alain Chartier Alcæus Angler angling artist Beatrice beautiful blind Boccaccio born Burns Charles Chatterton Chaucer Church court Cromwell Dante Dante's daughter dead death Defoe Diderot died Doctor Johnson Duke emperor England eyes Eyre Crowe fame famous father favour favourite Ford Madox Brown Frederick French Gallery gentle glory glove Goldsmith hand hath heart Henry Homer honour Horace Iliad John Faed John Milton Johnson king Lady Mary Laura letter live look Lord lover Mæcenas Margaret married Matilda Milton Molière never noble Oliver Cromwell once painter painting Petrarch picture pillory poem poet poet's poetry Pope pupil Queen rest Rome Rossetti Royal Academy Salon Sappho says scene seen sent Shakespeare Shallow sings Sir Thomas Lucy sits song soul Stella sweet Swift Tasso thee Thomas Lucy thou tion Varius verses Virgil Voltaire Walton William Powell Frith woman words wrote young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 17 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: — Men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude — Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain. Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain : — These constitute a State ; And sovereign Law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing...
Seite 95 - CROMWELL, our chief of men, who through a cloud Not of war only, but detractions rude, Guided by faith and matchless fortitude, To peace and truth thy glorious way hast ploughed...
Seite 154 - When upon some slight encouragement I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered like the rest of mankind by the enchantment of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre...
Seite 155 - I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it, at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance,* one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a Patron before. " The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks.
Seite 154 - My Lord, I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of The World, that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship.
Seite 163 - I received one morning a message from poor Goldsmith that he was in great distress, and as it was not in his power to come to me, begging that I would come to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was dressed, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the...
Seite 81 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! Heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtle flame As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life.
Seite 156 - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning', I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation, 'My Lord, ' Your Lordship's most humble, ' Most obedient servant,
Seite 155 - Seven years, My Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from your door, during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement or one smile of favour.
Seite 150 - My love is dead, Gone to his death-bed All under the willow-tree. Hark! the raven flaps his wing In the brier'd dell below; Hark! the death-owl loud doth sing To the nightmares, as they go: My love is dead, Gone to his death-bed All under the willow-tree.