A History of English Literature; a Practical Text-bookThomas Y. Crowell, 1923 - 542 стор. |
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Edward Albert. CHAPTER CONTENTS PAGE I. THE OLD ENGLISH PERIOD II . THE MIDDLE ENGLISH PERIOD 1 15 III . THE AGE OF CHAUCER . 32 IV . FROM CHAUCER TO SPENSER 57 V. THE AGE OF ELIZABETH 87 VI . THE AGE OF MILTON VII . THE AGE OF DRYDEN ...
Edward Albert. CHAPTER CONTENTS PAGE I. THE OLD ENGLISH PERIOD II . THE MIDDLE ENGLISH PERIOD 1 15 III . THE AGE OF CHAUCER . 32 IV . FROM CHAUCER TO SPENSER 57 V. THE AGE OF ELIZABETH 87 VI . THE AGE OF MILTON VII . THE AGE OF DRYDEN ...
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... middle of the twelfth century . The style of the Chronicle varies greatly ; it ranges from the baldest notes and summaries to quite ambitious pas- sages of narrative and description . Of the latter class the well - known passage on the ...
... middle of the twelfth century . The style of the Chronicle varies greatly ; it ranges from the baldest notes and summaries to quite ambitious pas- sages of narrative and description . Of the latter class the well - known passage on the ...
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... . " Old English prose is much nearer modern English prose than Old English poetry is to modern English poetry . " Discuss this statement . CHAPTER II THE MIDDLE ENGLISH PERIOD THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND ( 14 History of English Literature.
... . " Old English prose is much nearer modern English prose than Old English poetry is to modern English poetry . " Discuss this statement . CHAPTER II THE MIDDLE ENGLISH PERIOD THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND ( 14 History of English Literature.
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... Middle English speech that was to be the parent of modern English . As a written language Old English disappears about 1050 , and , also as a written language , Middle English first appears about the year 1200. With the appearance of ...
... Middle English speech that was to be the parent of modern English . As a written language Old English disappears about 1050 , and , also as a written language , Middle English first appears about the year 1200. With the appearance of ...
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... Middle English : the Northern , corresponding to the older Northumbrian ; the Midland , corresponding to Mercian ; and the Southern , corresponding to the Old English Kentish or Southern . None of the three can claim the superiority ...
... Middle English : the Northern , corresponding to the older Northumbrian ; the Midland , corresponding to Mercian ; and the Southern , corresponding to the Old English Kentish or Southern . None of the three can claim the superiority ...
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Addison allegorical alliteration appeared ballad beauty became Beowulf blank verse Byron Cædmon called career century characters Chaucer chief classical Coleridge comedy Cynewulf death DEVELOPMENT OF LITERARY died drama Dryden early educated Elizabethan England English prose essays example extract fiction genius give heroic couplet Hudibras humor importance John Johnson Keats kind King lack Lady large number later letters literature living Lord lyrical manner Matthew Arnold meter Milton miscellaneous narrative nature never night novel novelist Oxford passages passion period picaresque novel Pickwick Papers plays plot poems poet poetical poetry political Pope popular prose style published rhyme royal romance satire Scott Scottish Shakespeare Shelley shows song sonnets Spenser Spenserian stanzas spirit stanzas story success sweet Swift tale Tennyson Thackeray thee theme thou tion took tragedy W. E. Henley Whig Wordsworth writing written wrote
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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.