A History of English LiteratureJohn Buchan T. Nelson and Sons, Limited, 1923 - 675 من الصفحات |
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... poems are lost we lack an essential witness , but on the evidence extant it seems unlikely that Chaucer at any time ... poem of descrip- tion and moral comment , and then breaks off apparently for lack of a climax . Το 1 point out these ...
... poems are lost we lack an essential witness , but on the evidence extant it seems unlikely that Chaucer at any time ... poem of descrip- tion and moral comment , and then breaks off apparently for lack of a climax . Το 1 point out these ...
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... poem full of charm was produced , but the slight- ness of these poems and the use in each case of conventional forms are further proofs of the limits of Chaucer's inven- tion as regards plot and matter . In the Death of Blanche the ...
... poem full of charm was produced , but the slight- ness of these poems and the use in each case of conventional forms are further proofs of the limits of Chaucer's inven- tion as regards plot and matter . In the Death of Blanche the ...
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... poem to 8,246 lines , in 1,178 seven - line stanzas . The length injures the poem , but it is due not to mere prolixity , but to the sheer joy of the poet , who has at last been given a subject worthy of his powers . He had got his plot ...
... poem to 8,246 lines , in 1,178 seven - line stanzas . The length injures the poem , but it is due not to mere prolixity , but to the sheer joy of the poet , who has at last been given a subject worthy of his powers . He had got his plot ...
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... poem during the close of the Middle Ages . But while the author yet wrote , the old alliterative verse was dying , and the classicism which was to render his work archaic was at hand . And so , except to a few scholars and poets , his ...
... poem during the close of the Middle Ages . But while the author yet wrote , the old alliterative verse was dying , and the classicism which was to render his work archaic was at hand . And so , except to a few scholars and poets , his ...
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... poem which he had planned long before . Such at any rate is the account which the poet himself gives of how and why he had so long delayed the completion of his task ; and though it may be disputed how far the poet's confessions are to ...
... poem which he had planned long before . Such at any rate is the account which the poet himself gives of how and why he had so long delayed the completion of his task ; and though it may be disputed how far the poet's confessions are to ...
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الصفحة 214 - Dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature. God's image ; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself ; killfe the image of God, as it were in the eye.
الصفحة 163 - 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 145 - And when we meet at any time again. Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain.
الصفحة 162 - And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.
الصفحة 305 - When lovely woman stoops to folly. And finds, too late, that men betray. What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away? The only art her guilt to cover. To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom, — is to die.
الصفحة 534 - From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
الصفحة 305 - These, far departing, seek a kinder shore, And rural mirth and manners are no more. Sweet Auburn ! parent of the blissful hour, Thy glades forlorn confess the tyrant's power. Here as I take my solitary rounds, Amidst thy tangling walks and...
الصفحة 214 - ... not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse. We should be wary, therefore, what persecution we raise against the living labours of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books...
الصفحة 141 - And who, in time, knows whither we may vent The treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores This gain of our best glory shall be sent, T' enrich unknowing nations with our stores? What worlds in th' yet unformed Occident May come refined with th
الصفحة 278 - Now Giant Despair had a wife, and her name was Diffidence: so, when he was gone to bed, he told his wife what he had done, to wit, that he had taken a couple of prisoners, and cast them into his dungeon for trespassing on his grounds. Then, he asked her, also, what he had best do further with them.