A First View of English LiteratureC. Scribner's sons, 1905 - 386 من الصفحات |
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... poet mentions the sea his lines kindle ; it is the " swan - road , " the " sealbath , " the " path of the whales . " The ship is the " sea - steed , " the " wave - house of warriors its keel is " wreathed with foam like the neck of a ...
... poet mentions the sea his lines kindle ; it is the " swan - road , " the " sealbath , " the " path of the whales . " The ship is the " sea - steed , " the " wave - house of warriors its keel is " wreathed with foam like the neck of a ...
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... poet , who alone could insure this fame , was held in high esteem . The Gleeman and the Scôp . - Two classes of singers were recognized , first the gleeman ( gleóman ) , who did not create his own songs , but merely chanted what he had ...
... poet , who alone could insure this fame , was held in high esteem . The Gleeman and the Scôp . - Two classes of singers were recognized , first the gleeman ( gleóman ) , who did not create his own songs , but merely chanted what he had ...
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... poet himself speaks . His skill has been eclipsed by another singer , Heor- renda , and his lord has taken away from him his land - right and his place at court , in order to bestow them upon the suc- cessful rival . The poet comforts ...
... poet himself speaks . His skill has been eclipsed by another singer , Heor- renda , and his lord has taken away from him his land - right and his place at court , in order to bestow them upon the suc- cessful rival . The poet comforts ...
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... poet held among them ? Why ? Pick out as many characteristics as possible of their early life , from the account given of Beowulf . What virtues and personal qualities make Beowulf , the young gothic Prince , the typical hero of our ...
... poet held among them ? Why ? Pick out as many characteristics as possible of their early life , from the account given of Beowulf . What virtues and personal qualities make Beowulf , the young gothic Prince , the typical hero of our ...
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... poet of Christian England . Bede tells us that when the inmates of the monastery were gathered together at the evening feast , and the harp was passed round for each to sing in turn , Caedmon , the cowherd , would rise and depart , for ...
... poet of Christian England . Bede tells us that when the inmates of the monastery were gathered together at the evening feast , and the harp was passed round for each to sing in turn , Caedmon , the cowherd , would rise and depart , for ...
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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.