Simple History of English Literature: With Illustrative ExtractsT. Nelson and Sons, 1905 - 263 pages |
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afterwards ballads beautiful became Ben Jonson bird Bob-o'-link Born brave bright called Celts CHAPTER Chaucer chee Church Coleridge Cowper cried daughter David Garrick dear death delight died doth Dryden EDMUND SPENSER England English eyes Faerie Queene fair fairy father flowers GORBODUC Grasmere green happy hath hear heart heaven heigh-ho honour Inchcape Inchcape Rock Jeremy Taylor Johnson king King Arthur lady language learned leave literature Little white Lily live London Lord LORD BYRON Lyrical Ballads merry Milton never night o'er perhaps Pibroch play poem poet poetry poor Pope queen Robin Hood says Scott sing sister songs soon soul Southey Spenser Spink stories sweet tell thee things thou thought truth verse walked wandering wife wild WILLIAM COWPER WILLIAM WORDSWORTH wind Wordsworth write written wrote young
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Page 185 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested — that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
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