A History of English Literature; a Practical Text-bookThomas Y. Crowell, 1923 - 542 стор. |
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... King Alfred , who compro- mised with the Danes by sharing England with them ( 878 ) ; the accession of a Danish dynasty in England ( 1017 ) ; and the Gallicizing of the English Court , a process that was begun before the Conquest of ...
... King Alfred , who compro- mised with the Danes by sharing England with them ( 878 ) ; the accession of a Danish dynasty in England ( 1017 ) ; and the Gallicizing of the English Court , a process that was begun before the Conquest of ...
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... which is of little literary importance . BEOWULF 1. Origin of the Poem . It is almost certain that the poem originated before the English invasions . There is no mention of England ; Beowulf himself is the king The Old English Period 3.
... which is of little literary importance . BEOWULF 1. Origin of the Poem . It is almost certain that the poem originated before the English invasions . There is no mention of England ; Beowulf himself is the king The Old English Period 3.
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... king of the Geatas , sails to Denmark with a band of heroes , and rids the Danish King Hrothgar of a horrible mere - monster called Grendel . The mother of Grendel meets with the same fate , and Beowulf , having been duly feasted and ...
... king of the Geatas , sails to Denmark with a band of heroes , and rids the Danish King Hrothgar of a horrible mere - monster called Grendel . The mother of Grendel meets with the same fate , and Beowulf , having been duly feasted and ...
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... King , in order to preserve some show of learning among the clergy , was compelled to translate some popular monastic handbooks into his own tongue . These works are his con- tribution to our literature . As he says , they were often ...
... King , in order to preserve some show of learning among the clergy , was compelled to translate some popular monastic handbooks into his own tongue . These works are his con- tribution to our literature . As he says , they were often ...
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... King Alfred , who is said even to have dictated the entries dealing with his own campaigns . The Chronicle has come down to us in four versions , all of which seem to have sprung from a common stock . The four versions are pre- served ...
... King Alfred , who is said even to have dictated the entries dealing with his own campaigns . The Chronicle has come down to us in four versions , all of which seem to have sprung from a common stock . The four versions are pre- served ...
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Сторінка 448 - 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.
Сторінка 202 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul, All the images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Сторінка 259 - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Сторінка 184 - Our two souls, therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two: Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth if th
Сторінка 392 - He has outsoared the shadow of our night; Envy and calumny and hate and pain, And that unrest which men miscall delight, Can touch him not and torture not again...
Сторінка 224 - 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 hath made...
Сторінка 562 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but .the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Сторінка 137 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. 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.
Сторінка 165 - For, so to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise; Ay me ! whilst thee the shores and sounding seas Wash far away, where'er thy bones are hurled; Whether beyond the stormy Hebrides, Where thou perhaps under the whelming tide Visit'st the bottom of the monstrous world...
Сторінка 295 - 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.