A First View of English LiteratureC. Scribner's sons, 1905 - 386 من الصفحات |
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... famous princes of the past , an enumeration of the various peoples and countries which the bard has visited , and praises of those princes who have entertained him gen- erously . He declares that he has been " with Cæsar , * who had ...
... famous princes of the past , an enumeration of the various peoples and countries which the bard has visited , and praises of those princes who have entertained him gen- erously . He declares that he has been " with Cæsar , * who had ...
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... famous hall , " rich and gold - variegated , most glorious of dwellings under the firmament . " The young heroes in their " shining war byrnies , " * and with their spears like a " grey ashwood above their heads , " are ushered into the ...
... famous hall , " rich and gold - variegated , most glorious of dwellings under the firmament . " The young heroes in their " shining war byrnies , " * and with their spears like a " grey ashwood above their heads , " are ushered into the ...
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... famous because of their connection with literature - Jarrow and Whitby . At Jarrow lived and died Baeda , known as the " Venerable Bede , " a gentle , laborious scholar in whom all the learning of Northumbria was summed up . He ...
... famous because of their connection with literature - Jarrow and Whitby . At Jarrow lived and died Baeda , known as the " Venerable Bede , " a gentle , laborious scholar in whom all the learning of Northumbria was summed up . He ...
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... famous " Love Rune " of Thomas de Hales , a monk of the Minor Friars . He tells us in the first stanza that he was be- sought by a maid of Christ to make her a love - song , in order that she might learn therefrom how to choose a worthy ...
... famous " Love Rune " of Thomas de Hales , a monk of the Minor Friars . He tells us in the first stanza that he was be- sought by a maid of Christ to make her a love - song , in order that she might learn therefrom how to choose a worthy ...
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... famous work which the school of French trouvères had produced was the Roman de la Rose , an elaborate allegory of love , the rose , growing in a mystic garden , warded by symbolic figures from the lover's approach . The Roman de la Rose ...
... famous work which the school of French trouvères had produced was the Roman de la Rose , an elaborate allegory of love , the rose , growing in a mystic garden , warded by symbolic figures from the lover's approach . The Roman de la Rose ...
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الصفحة 79 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised: thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet.
الصفحة 196 - Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but you are surprised to find it done at all.
الصفحة 108 - Yes, trust them not ! for there is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his " Tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide," supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you ; and, being an absolute Johannes Factotum, is, in his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in a country.
الصفحة 256 - Of aspect more sublime: that blessed mood In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world, Is lightened; that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently lead us on, Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul...
الصفحة 280 - I was stared at, hooted at, grinned at, chattered at, by monkeys, by paroquets, by cockatoos. I ran into pagodas : and was fixed for centuries at the summit, or in secret rooms ; I was the idol; I was the priest; I was worshipped; I was sacrificed.
الصفحة 192 - For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered is best...
الصفحة 203 - I think it may be necessary to consider distinctly the true nature and the peculiar circumstances of the object which we have before us; because after all our struggle, whether we will or not, we must govern America according to that nature and to those circumstances, and not according to our own imaginations...
الصفحة 136 - Now, since these dead bones have already outlasted the living ones of Methuselah, and, in a yard under ground, and thin walls of clay, outworn all the strong and specious buildings above it, and quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests...
الصفحة 100 - Was this the face that launched a thousand ships And burnt the topless towers of Ilium ? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.
الصفحة 110 - A tedious brief scene of young Pyramus, And his love Thisbe ; very tragical mirth.