Outlines of English LiteratureC. Scribner's Sons, 1893 - 248 من الصفحات |
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Aelfric allegorical alliteration artist Bacon beauty Bede Ben Jonson Beowulf Caedmon Canterbury Tales Carlyle Celt Celtic character Chaucer classical Comedy connected criticism Cynewulf diagram didactic doth Drama dramatist earnest English Essay ethical Euphuism excels fact faculty Faerie Queene fair fancy feeling French Friar Geoffrey of Monmouth Gorboduc Gower Guenever hath head heart History honour Hooker humour imagination influence interest Jonson King lady Langley Layamon legend less literary literature Lord Lyly lyric manner monk moral nature never Norman Norman Conquest observation pastoral period Petrarch philosopher play poem Poesy poet poetic poetry queen Quincey realism religious remarkable represented rhetorical rhyme rich Roger Bacon Romance Ruskin Sackville satire Saxon Scottish sense Shakspere Shakspere's Sidney Sonnets specimen Spenser spirit story style Tennyson Teutonic Thackeray thee thou Timor mortis conturbat tion Tragedy translation treatment unto vein verse
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الصفحة 69 - for they teach not their own use ; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. 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
الصفحة 230 - In happy climes the seat of innocence, Where nature guides and virtue rules, Where men shall not impose for truth and sense The pedantry of courts and schools ; Not such as Europe breeds in her decay, Such as she bred when fresh and young When heavenly flame did animate her clay—
الصفحة 124 - So spake the grisly Terror, and in shape, So speaking and so threatening, grew tenfold More dreadful and deform. On the other side, Incensed with indignation. Satan stood Unterrified, and like a comet burn'd, That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In the arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war. Each at the head
الصفحة 114 - Her cheeks so rare a white was on, No daisy makes comparison. Who sees them is undone. For streaks of red were mingled there. Such as are on a Cath'rine pear, The side that's next the sun. Her lips were red and one was thin Compared to that was next her chin, Some bee had stung it newly
الصفحة 114 - lyric beginning Shall I, wasting in despair, Die because a woman's fair ? Or make pale my cheeks with care, 'Cause another's rosy are ? Be she fairer than the day, Or the flow'ry meads in May ; If she be not so to me, What care I how fair she be.
الصفحة 138 - crew : Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun, And prove their doctrine orthodox By apostolic blows and knocks; Call fire and sword and desolation A godly thorough reformation ; Compound for sins they are inclined to By
الصفحة 69 - BACON. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them ; for they teach not their own use ; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. 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
الصفحة 221 - leaving them to turn their arithmetic to roguery, and their literature to lust. It is, on the contrary, training them into the perfect exercise and kingly continence of their bodies and souls. It is a painful, continual, and difficult work ; to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and by praise,
الصفحة 128 - and still while a man tells the story the sun gets up higher, till he shews a fair face and a full light, and then he shines one whole day, under a cloud often, and sometimes weeping great and little showers, and sets quickly ; so is a man's reason and his life. It is
الصفحة 161 - He travels and I too. I tread his deck, Ascend his topmast, through his peering eyes Discover countries, with a kindred heart Suffer his woes and share in his escapes ; While fancy, like the finger of a clock. Runs the great circuit and is still at home.