Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of British and American Authors, with Specimens of Their Writings, Volumes 5-6

Robert Chambers

American Book Exchange, 1880

Índice

• 227: 1
• William Cowper 17311800: 7
• From Conversation: 15
• Love of Nature: 21
• William Hayley 17451820: 28
• Charlotte Smith 17491806: 60
• On a Sprig of Heath: 70
• John Leyden 17751811: 81
• 1: 89
• A Winter Sabbath Walk: 95
• Sketches of Autumn: 111
• Written in the Highlands of Scot: 120
• 1803: 135
• Hymn in the Vale of Chamou: 160
• Rev William Lisle Bowles 17621850: 166
• The Battle of Blenheim: 179
• Conversation between Lords Chat: 185
• To HesterThe Old Familiar Faces: 193
• William Sotheby 17571833: 200
• grant Shrine: 213
• Matthew Gregory Lewis 17751818: 229
• Sir Water Scott 17711832: 236
• The Sun upon the Weirdlaw Hill: 248
• The Gladiator: 261
• 266: 294
• James Montgomery 17711854: 307
• Mrs Hemans 17931835: 343
• Bryan Waller Proctor 179018: 349
• Rev Henry Hart Milman 17911868: 355
• Lawrence: 361
• Rev John Keble 17921866: 380
• John Tobin 17701804: 83
• 90: 90
• William Beckfort 17601844: 100
• Mrs Frances Sheridan 17241776 106: 106
• Dr John Moore 729180: 113
• Mrs Inchibald 17531821: 119
• Description of the Castle of Udolpho128: 128
• Concluding Scene of Caleb Wil: 140
• Charles Brockden Brown 17711810 148: 146
• An Irish Postilton: 153
• Song My Ain Fireside: 164
• R Maturin 17821824: 172
• John Galt 7791839: 192
• Thomas Hope 1770 831: 200
• A Moonlight Scene at Sea 205: 205
• Mrs Johnstone 17811857Sir Tho: 211
• James Morier 17801849: 218
• Theodore Edward Hook 17881841 224: 224
• John Banim 18001842: 231
• PAGE: 331
• Edmund Malone 17411812: 337
• Rev William Gilpin 17241804 343: 343
• Lord Erskine 17501823: 349
• John James Audubon 17801851: 357
• 363: 363
• All Curates hope to draw Prizes 371: 371
• 381: 381

Passagens conhecidas

Página 140 - tis her privilege. Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy; for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues. Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is full of blessings.

Página 324 - Nay, not so," Replied the angel. Abou spoke more low, But cheerily still, and said, "I pray thee, then, Write me as one that loves his fellow-men.

Página 158 - The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I.

Página 290 - Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw warm gules on Madeline's fair breast, As down she knelt for heaven's grace and boon; Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together prest, And on her silver cross soft amethyst, And on her hair a glory, like a saint: She seemed a splendid angel, newly drest, Save wings, for heaven: Porphyro grew faint: She knelt, so pure a thing, so free from mortal taint.

Página 137 - Twelve steps or more from my mother's door, And they are side by side.

Página 247 - O woman ! in our hours of ease, uncertain, coy, and hard to please, and variable as the shade by the light, quivering aspen made ; when pain and anguish wring the brow, a ministering angel thou...

Página 26 - For saddle-tree scarce reached had he, His journey to begin, When, turning round his head, he saw Three customers come in. So down he came; for loss of time, Although it grieved him sore, Yet loss of pence, full well he knew, Would trouble him much more. Twas long before the customers Were suited to their mind, When Betty screaming came down stairs, 'The wine is left behind!' 'Good lack,' quoth he — 'yet bring it me, My leathern belt likewise, In which I bear my trusty sword, When I do exercise.

Página 138 - To them I may have owed another gift, Of aspect more sublime : that blessed mood In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world. Is lightened; that serene and blessed mood.

Página 297 - Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning.

Página 291 - My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness, — That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease.

Informação bibliográfica

• Título: Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of British and American Authors, with Specimens of Their Writings, Volumes 5-6; Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of British and American Authors, with Specimens of Their Writings, Robert Carruthers
• Editor: Robert Chambers
• Edição: 3
• Editora: American Book Exchange, 1880
• Original de: a Biblioteca Pública de Nova Iorque
• Digitalizado: 15 Dez 2006