A First View of English LiteratureC. Scribner's sons, 1905 - 386 من الصفحات |
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... people in Britain . When the Danes , victorious in Northumbria , began to press south- westward into the kingdom of Wessex , Alfred the Great held the throne . His heroism turned back the tide 18 Old English Period III.
... people in Britain . When the Danes , victorious in Northumbria , began to press south- westward into the kingdom of Wessex , Alfred the Great held the throne . His heroism turned back the tide 18 Old English Period III.
الصفحة 19
William Vaughn Moody, Robert Morss Lovett. held the throne . His heroism turned back the tide of bar- barian invasion . By the treaty of Wedmore , which he forced upon them in 878 , the Danes pledged themselves to remain north of Watling ...
William Vaughn Moody, Robert Morss Lovett. held the throne . His heroism turned back the tide of bar- barian invasion . By the treaty of Wedmore , which he forced upon them in 878 , the Danes pledged themselves to remain north of Watling ...
الصفحة 39
... throne of England . He reigned for fifty years , and the first part of his reign was one of prosperity at home and victory abroad . Up to this time England had been an agricultural country . Now , taking example from Flanders , the ...
... throne of England . He reigned for fifty years , and the first part of his reign was one of prosperity at home and victory abroad . Up to this time England had been an agricultural country . Now , taking example from Flanders , the ...
الصفحة 40
... throne in 1377. He was so weak a ruler that he won the nickname of Richard the Redeless . The royal power during a large por- tion of his reign of twenty - two years was in the hands of his uncle , John of Gaunt , brother of the Black ...
... throne in 1377. He was so weak a ruler that he won the nickname of Richard the Redeless . The royal power during a large por- tion of his reign of twenty - two years was in the hands of his uncle , John of Gaunt , brother of the Black ...
الصفحة 52
... the Tower and the Savoy palace , and murdered an archbishop ; it seemed for a time as if the throne and the whole social order were about to be overturned . The Lollard Movement . - During this time of social 52 Middle English Period.
... the Tower and the Savoy palace , and murdered an archbishop ; it seemed for a time as if the throne and the whole social order were about to be overturned . The Lollard Movement . - During this time of social 52 Middle English Period.
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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.