Religious Thought in Old English VerseSampson Low, 1892 - 456 páginas |
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... published by Dan Michel of Northgate , in the Kentish form of the language . It was called The Ayenbite of Inwyt , that is to say , ' The Again - biting of the Inner - wit , ' or ' The Remorse of Conscience , ' and was the translation ...
... published by Dan Michel of Northgate , in the Kentish form of the language . It was called The Ayenbite of Inwyt , that is to say , ' The Again - biting of the Inner - wit , ' or ' The Remorse of Conscience , ' and was the translation ...
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... published his Confessio Amantis about 1393. King Richard the Second is said to have suggested the subject of it , when one day he met him accidentally on the Thames . It is a vast collection of stories taken indifferently from sacred ...
... published his Confessio Amantis about 1393. King Richard the Second is said to have suggested the subject of it , when one day he met him accidentally on the Thames . It is a vast collection of stories taken indifferently from sacred ...
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... published at Basle in 1549. The scriptural play on The Temptation was written in 1538. As a poem it is of no particular value , but it is very interesting in its quaint simplicity . The author himself , as ' Baleus Prolocutor , ' is ...
... published at Basle in 1549. The scriptural play on The Temptation was written in 1538. As a poem it is of no particular value , but it is very interesting in its quaint simplicity . The author himself , as ' Baleus Prolocutor , ' is ...
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... published in 1561 , there are brought upon the stage not only the historical personages connected with Esther's history , but also such allegorical characters as Pride , Adulation , and Ambition . In one of the more unblended moralities ...
... published in 1561 , there are brought upon the stage not only the historical personages connected with Esther's history , but also such allegorical characters as Pride , Adulation , and Ambition . In one of the more unblended moralities ...
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... published in 1535 ; a later edition - the ' Great Bible ' - in 1539 , and his second ' Great Bible , ' or ' Cranmer's Bible , ' in 1540 . After the execution of his constant patron , Thomas Cromwell , he went abroad . At Edward the ...
... published in 1535 ; a later edition - the ' Great Bible ' - in 1539 , and his second ' Great Bible , ' or ' Cranmer's Bible , ' in 1540 . After the execution of his constant patron , Thomas Cromwell , he went abroad . At Edward the ...
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Página 374 - No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose,) The bosom of his Father and his God.
Página 263 - The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more. For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries. The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home.
Página 332 - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than hell to shun, That, more than Heaven pursue. What blessings Thy free bounty gives, Let me not cast away; For God is paid when man receives, T
Página 365 - From seeming evil still educing good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression.
Página 271 - tis said, Before was never made, But when of old the sons of morning sung While the Creator great His constellations set, And the well-balanced world on hinges hung, And cast the dark foundations deep, And bid the weltering waves their oozy channel keep.
Página 256 - Thou wilt not wake Till I thy fate shall overtake : Till age, or grief, or sickness must Marry my body to that dust It so much loves, and fill the room My heart keeps empty in thy tomb. Stay for me there ; I will not fail To meet thee in that hollow vale.
Página 441 - Nature never did betray The heart that loved her ; '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...
Página 440 - All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things. Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods, And mountains; and of all that we behold From this green earth ; of all the mighty world Of eye and ear, both what they half create *, And what perceive...
Página 178 - Even such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust ; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days ; But from this earth, this grave, this dust. My God shall raise me up, I trust ! ELIZABETHAN MISCELLANIES.
Página 224 - How happy is he born and taught, That serveth not another's will; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill.