A History of English LiteratureJohn Buchan T. Nelson and Sons, Limited, 1923 - 675 من الصفحات |
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... turn urge their hospitality upon him , and finally the friars make him free of their community . Meede alone does not attempt to escape , and is duly arrested , but afforded comfortable quarters by the king's command . Here she is ...
... turn urge their hospitality upon him , and finally the friars make him free of their community . Meede alone does not attempt to escape , and is duly arrested , but afforded comfortable quarters by the king's command . Here she is ...
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... of Henry VI . , is not entirely without interest . Once , in London Lickpenny , he showed a turn of humour which might have been advantageous to his longer works . Few of his works. 30 [ SECTION 1 A HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.
... of Henry VI . , is not entirely without interest . Once , in London Lickpenny , he showed a turn of humour which might have been advantageous to his longer works . Few of his works. 30 [ SECTION 1 A HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.
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... turn his intractable material into poetry . He was a man of the past , carrying the mediaval burdens of allegory and scholasticism , unaware of the renaissance of humanism which was at hand and might have lightened his load . Other ...
... turn his intractable material into poetry . He was a man of the past , carrying the mediaval burdens of allegory and scholasticism , unaware of the renaissance of humanism which was at hand and might have lightened his load . Other ...
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... turn exercised a marked influence upon the native drama , more especially in the work of the " university wits " who were Shakespeare's immediate predecessors and teachers . But Humanism was itself the parent of another movement , which ...
... turn exercised a marked influence upon the native drama , more especially in the work of the " university wits " who were Shakespeare's immediate predecessors and teachers . But Humanism was itself the parent of another movement , which ...
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... turn to the individual writers who took part in these great tasks and also produced many theological , devotional , and controversial works that have their place in the history of English prose . The Gospell And he fayde : Lorde ...
... turn to the individual writers who took part in these great tasks and also produced many theological , devotional , and controversial works that have their place in the history of English prose . The Gospell And he fayde : Lorde ...
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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.