A History of English Literature; a Practical Text-bookThomas Y. Crowell, 1923 - 542 стор. |
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... nature of our litera- ture , and of setting modern authors to scale against the larger historical background . Secondly , the endeavor has been to make the book prac- tical . Discussion has been avoided ; facts , so far as they are ...
... nature of our litera- ture , and of setting modern authors to scale against the larger historical background . Secondly , the endeavor has been to make the book prac- tical . Discussion has been avoided ; facts , so far as they are ...
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... author's gratitude to his colleagues and good friends , for their skill and good- nature in revising the manuscript and in making many excellent suggestions . EDINBURGH E. A. CHAPTER CONTENTS PAGE I. THE OLD ENGLISH PERIOD II . vi Preface.
... author's gratitude to his colleagues and good friends , for their skill and good- nature in revising the manuscript and in making many excellent suggestions . EDINBURGH E. A. CHAPTER CONTENTS PAGE I. THE OLD ENGLISH PERIOD II . vi Preface.
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... NATURE 159 190 231 281 362 XI . THE VICTORIAN AGE 451 XII . THE POST - VICTORIAN AGE . 518 GENERAL QUESTIONS AND EXERCISES 562 APPENDIX I : GENERAL TABLES 581 APPENDIX II : BIBLIOGRAPHY 591 INDEX TO EXTRACTS 601 GENERAL INDEX 607 ...
... NATURE 159 190 231 281 362 XI . THE VICTORIAN AGE 451 XII . THE POST - VICTORIAN AGE . 518 GENERAL QUESTIONS AND EXERCISES 562 APPENDIX I : GENERAL TABLES 581 APPENDIX II : BIBLIOGRAPHY 591 INDEX TO EXTRACTS 601 GENERAL INDEX 607 ...
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... nature . The clergy , who were almost the sole authors , had such text - books at hand , and were rarely capable of reaching beyond them . This second- hand nature of Old English is certainly its most disappoint- ing feature . In most ...
... nature . The clergy , who were almost the sole authors , had such text - books at hand , and were rarely capable of reaching beyond them . This second- hand nature of Old English is certainly its most disappoint- ing feature . In most ...
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... nature ( such as the laws of Ine , who died about 730 ) before the time of Alfred , there can be little objection to the claim frequently made for him , that he is " the father of English prose . " As he tells us himself in his preface ...
... nature ( such as the laws of Ine , who died about 730 ) before the time of Alfred , there can be little objection to the claim frequently made for him , that he is " the father of English prose . " As he tells us himself in his preface ...
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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.