A History of English Literature; a Practical Text-bookThomas Y. Crowell, 1923 - 542 стор. |
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... containing the Cadmon poems ; ( c ) the Exeter Book , in the Exeter Cathedral library ( to which it was given by ... contains , along with some prose homilies , six Old English poems , including Andreas and Elene . THE LANGUAGE The ...
... containing the Cadmon poems ; ( c ) the Exeter Book , in the Exeter Cathedral library ( to which it was given by ... contains , along with some prose homilies , six Old English poems , including Andreas and Elene . THE LANGUAGE The ...
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... contains a finely told description of the fighting at Finnes- burgh . ( d ) The Battle of Brunanburgh is a spirited piece on this famous fight , which took place in 937. The poem has much more spirit and originality than usual , contains ...
... contains a finely told description of the fighting at Finnes- burgh . ( d ) The Battle of Brunanburgh is a spirited piece on this famous fight , which took place in 937. The poem has much more spirit and originality than usual , contains ...
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... contains long dis- cussions between the poet and the pearl , has some passages of real , moving beauty , and there is a sweet melancholy inflection in some of the verses that is rare indeed among the fumbling poetasters of the time ...
... contains long dis- cussions between the poet and the pearl , has some passages of real , moving beauty , and there is a sweet melancholy inflection in some of the verses that is rare indeed among the fumbling poetasters of the time ...
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... contains work of the greatest individual accomplishment . The achievement of this period is The Canterbury Tales , though one or two of the separate tales may be of slightly earlier composi- tion . For the general idea of the tales ...
... contains work of the greatest individual accomplishment . The achievement of this period is The Canterbury Tales , though one or two of the separate tales may be of slightly earlier composi- tion . For the general idea of the tales ...
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... contains ample material to illustrate Chau- cer's power in describing his fellow - men . We shall add an extract to show him in another vein . Observe the selection of detail , the terseness and adequacy of epithet , and the masterly ...
... contains ample material to illustrate Chau- cer's power in describing his fellow - men . We shall add an extract to show him in another vein . Observe the selection of detail , the terseness and adequacy of epithet , and the masterly ...
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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.