A History of English Literature in a Series of Biographical Sketches

William Francis Collier

T. Nelson & Sons, 1893 - 550 էջ

Բովանդակություն

• THE PREENGLISH: 9
• 18: 28
• FIRST ERA OF ENGLISH LITERATURE: 35
• 53: 67
• SECOND: 71
• ster: 78
• 71: 84
• 87: 94
• THIRD: 101
• FROM THE SHUTTING OF THE THEATRES IN 1648 A D TO: 176
• Edward Hyde Earl of Claren: 190
• FIFTH: 219
• 219: 232
• John Locke: 243
• SIXTH: 253
• Sir Isaac Newton: 266
• Other Writers of the Sixth Era: 289
• SEVENTH: 294
• James Thomson: 301
• Henry Fielding: 311
• Samuel Johnson: 343
• Other Writers of the Seventh Era: 351
• EIGHTH: 358
• Edward Gibbon: 393
• Robert Burns: 399
• Edmund Burke: 414
• FROM THE DEATH OF SCOTT IN 1832 A D TO THE PRESENT TIME: 434
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge: 441
• Robert Southey: 447
• William Wordsworth: 453
• Thomas Babington Lord Mac: 461
• Charles Dickens: 480
• William Makepeace Thackeray: 487
• APPENDIX ON AMERICAN LITERATURE: 529

Սիրված հատվածներ

Էջ 294 - twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.‎

Էջ 96 - Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses, Or else worth all the rest; I see thee still, And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood, Which was not so before. There's no such thing: It is the bloody business which informs Thus to mine eyes.‎

Էջ 330 - Ye Ice-falls! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge!‎

Էջ 143 - The other Shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb ; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either — black it stood as Night, 670 Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart : what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.‎

Էջ 145 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence : Here we may reign secure, and, in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell : Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven...‎

Էջ 288 - I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.‎

Էջ 293 - Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts: — not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow — Such as creation's dawn beheld thou rollest now.‎

Էջ 97 - Prick'd from the lazy finger of a maid : Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut, Made by the joiner squirrel, or old grub, Time out of mind the fairies' coach-makers. And in this state she gallops night by night Through lovers...‎

Էջ 260 - In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs — and God has given my share — I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose...‎

Էջ 145 - No sooner had the Almighty ceased, but all The multitude of angels, with a shout Loud as from numbers without number, sweet As from blest voices, uttering joy...‎

Բիբլիոգրաֆիական տվյալներ

• Վերնագիր: A History of English Literature in a Series of Biographical Sketches
• Հեղինակ: William Francis Collier
• Հրատարակիչ: T. Nelson & Sons, 1893
• Original from: Միչիգանի համալսարան
• Digitized: 27 Փետրվար 2006
• Length: 550 էջ