A First View of English LiteratureC. Scribner's sons, 1905 - 386 من الصفحات |
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... Religion . The poetry which has come down to us from this early period has been worked over by later hands and given a Christian coloring . But from other sources we know who were the primitive gods of the race : Tiu , a mys- terious ...
... Religion . The poetry which has come down to us from this early period has been worked over by later hands and given a Christian coloring . But from other sources we know who were the primitive gods of the race : Tiu , a mys- terious ...
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... religion was in the main a worship of the heavenly bodies ; their priests , known as Druids , were astronomers and bards . The circle of huge stones at Stonehenge probably marks the site of their chief temple . In character the Britons ...
... religion was in the main a worship of the heavenly bodies ; their priests , known as Druids , were astronomers and bards . The circle of huge stones at Stonehenge probably marks the site of their chief temple . In character the Britons ...
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... religion , with which they now for the first time came into full contact . The literature of this period shows very ... religious influence which came from Rome centred chiefly in south and central England , in the kingdom of Wessex ...
... religion , with which they now for the first time came into full contact . The literature of this period shows very ... religious influence which came from Rome centred chiefly in south and central England , in the kingdom of Wessex ...
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... religious experience , which , together with the public disasters then overtaking Northumbria , completely changed the temper of his mind . He gave up the half - pagan nature- poetry which up to this time he had written , and turned to ...
... religious experience , which , together with the public disasters then overtaking Northumbria , completely changed the temper of his mind . He gave up the half - pagan nature- poetry which up to this time he had written , and turned to ...
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... religious interpre- tation ; and finally a number of Riddles , very curious compo- sitions , some of which are full of fine imagination and fresh observation of nature . The " Riddles " of Cynewulf . - These last are nothing more nor ...
... religious interpre- tation ; and finally a number of Riddles , very curious compo- sitions , some of which are full of fine imagination and fresh observation of nature . The " Riddles " of Cynewulf . - These last are nothing more nor ...
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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.