The Quarterly Review, Volumen34William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, John Murray, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1826 |
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... Florence of Worcester , William of Malmesbury , Ralph Higden and Matthew of Westminster , all considered as the vouchers for the events of the reign of the Confessor , and , apparently , with equal confidence and satisfaction . Yet ...
... Florence of Worcester , William of Malmesbury , Ralph Higden and Matthew of Westminster , all considered as the vouchers for the events of the reign of the Confessor , and , apparently , with equal confidence and satisfaction . Yet ...
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... Florence of Worcester , who wrote in the reign of Henry I. , translated the Saxon Chronicle , generally from the existing text , with the most scrupulous fidelity . These translated passages he engrafted on the universal chronology ...
... Florence of Worcester , who wrote in the reign of Henry I. , translated the Saxon Chronicle , generally from the existing text , with the most scrupulous fidelity . These translated passages he engrafted on the universal chronology ...
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... Florence deserts the Saxon Chronicle , and transcribes the work of the ... Florence is extant in the Saxon Chronicle , still his work is extremely valuable . He ... Worcester , for his knowledge of the Anglo - Saxon language was imperfect ...
... Florence deserts the Saxon Chronicle , and transcribes the work of the ... Florence is extant in the Saxon Chronicle , still his work is extremely valuable . He ... Worcester , for his knowledge of the Anglo - Saxon language was imperfect ...
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... Florence of Worcester ; but there are many parallel passages to show that Florilegus translated from a Saxon chronicle , and that he did not copy from Florence . We do not say that he translated from the Saxon Chronicle , because his ...
... Florence of Worcester ; but there are many parallel passages to show that Florilegus translated from a Saxon chronicle , and that he did not copy from Florence . We do not say that he translated from the Saxon Chronicle , because his ...
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... Florence of Worcester , 280 , 281 - of the Chronicle usually ascribed to Matthew of Westminster , 281 , 282- and of Simon of Durham , 282 - character of the History of Henry of Huntingdon , 282 , 283 - of William of Malmesbury , 284 of ...
... Florence of Worcester , 280 , 281 - of the Chronicle usually ascribed to Matthew of Westminster , 281 , 282- and of Simon of Durham , 282 - character of the History of Henry of Huntingdon , 282 , 283 - of William of Malmesbury , 284 of ...
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Página 90 - 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, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on...
Página 354 - O God ! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea : and, other times, to see The beachy girdle of the ocean Too wide for Neptune's hips...
Página 137 - Augustus at Rome was for building renown'd, And of marble he left what of brick he had found ; But is not our Nash, too, a very great master ? — He finds us all brick and he leaves us all plaster.
Página 249 - Fathom ; or to the terrible description of a sea-engagement, in which Roderick Random sits chained and exposed upon the poop, without the power of motion or exertion, during the carnage of a tremendous engagement. Upon many other occasions, Smollett's descriptions ascend to the sublime ; and, in general, there is an air of romance in his writings, which raises his narratives above the level and easy course of ordinary life. He was, like a preeminent poet of our own day, a searcher of dark bosoms,...
Página 249 - ... such, had it never crossed the press. And it is with concern we add our sincere belief, that the fine picture of frankness and generosity exhibited in that fictitious character has had as few imitators as the career of his follies. Let it not be supposed that we are indifferent to morality, because we treat with scorn that affectation which, while in common life it connives at the open practice of libertinism, pretends to detest the memory of an author who painted life as it was, with all its...
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Página 241 - More sweet than odours caught by him who sails Near spicy shores of Araby the blest, A thousand times more exquisitely sweet, The freight of holy feeling which we meet, In thoughtful moments, wafted by the gales From fields where good men walk, or bowers wherein they rest.