Halleck's New English LiteratureAmerican Book Company, 1913 - 647 стор. |
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... story of a Christian martyr , and the least important , The Fates of the Apostles . The Christ , a poem on the Savior's Nativity , Ascension , and Judgment of the world at the last day , sometimes sug- gests Dante's Inferno or Paradiso ...
... story of a Christian martyr , and the least important , The Fates of the Apostles . The Christ , a poem on the Savior's Nativity , Ascension , and Judgment of the world at the last day , sometimes sug- gests Dante's Inferno or Paradiso ...
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... stories in verse usually present the glory of chivalry , the religious faith , and the romantic loves of a feudal age . In Beowulf , woman plays a very minor part and there is no love story ; but in these romances we often find woman ...
... stories in verse usually present the glory of chivalry , the religious faith , and the romantic loves of a feudal age . In Beowulf , woman plays a very minor part and there is no love story ; but in these romances we often find woman ...
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... story of Gawayne and the Green Knight , “ the jewel of English medieval literature , " tells how Sir Gawayne , Arthur's favorite , fought with a giant called the Green Knight . The romance might almost be called a sermon , if it did not ...
... story of Gawayne and the Green Knight , “ the jewel of English medieval literature , " tells how Sir Gawayne , Arthur's favorite , fought with a giant called the Green Knight . The romance might almost be called a sermon , if it did not ...
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... story , which reminds us of Spenser's Faerie Queene , presents in a new garb one of the oft - recurring ideals of the race , " keep troth " ( truth ) . Chaucer sings in the same key : " Hold the hye wey , and let thy gost thee lede ...
... story , which reminds us of Spenser's Faerie Queene , presents in a new garb one of the oft - recurring ideals of the race , " keep troth " ( truth ) . Chaucer sings in the same key : " Hold the hye wey , and let thy gost thee lede ...
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... stories which reveal the causes tending to hinder or to further love . Gower had ability in story - telling , as is shown by the tales about Medea and the knight Florent ; but he lacked Chaucer's dramatic skill and humor . Gower's influ ...
... stories which reveal the causes tending to hinder or to further love . Gower had ability in story - telling , as is shown by the tales about Medea and the knight Florent ; but he lacked Chaucer's dramatic skill and humor . Gower's influ ...
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Сторінка 335 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden -flower grows wild; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
Сторінка 314 - midst its dreary dells, Whose walls more awful nod By thy religious gleams. Or if chill blustering winds, or driving rain, Prevent my willing feet, be mine the hut, That from the mountain's side, Views wilds, and swelling floods, And hamlets brown, and dim-discovered spires, And hears their simple bell, and marks o'er all Thy dewy fingers draw The gradual dusky veil.
Сторінка 198 - O ! wonder ! How many goodly creatures are there here ! How beauteous mankind is ! O brave new world, That has such people in't ! Pro.
Сторінка 335 - His house was known to all the vagrant train ; He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain...
Сторінка 226 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.
Сторінка 62 - Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low, — an excellent thing in woman.
Сторінка 295 - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Сторінка 395 - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky.
Сторінка 412 - The Niobe of nations, — there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago ; The Scipios...
Сторінка 565 - When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces, The mother of months in meadow or plain Fills the shadows and windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain ; And the brown bright nightingale amorous Is half assuaged for Itylus, For the Thracian ships and the foreign faces, The tongueless vigil, and all the pain.