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... chief objects sought . Detailed treatment is given to those writers only whose works have a basis of appeal to the average student . The personal , biographical element predominates ; but consistent effort has been made to bring the ...
... chief objects sought . Detailed treatment is given to those writers only whose works have a basis of appeal to the average student . The personal , biographical element predominates ; but consistent effort has been made to bring the ...
الصفحة 2
... the wanderings of the bard , or scop , " as he was called , through many lands . He is pic- tured as a true artist , whose chief delight is in the practice of his art , though its cordial reception by great. 2 ENGLISH LITERATURE.
... the wanderings of the bard , or scop , " as he was called , through many lands . He is pic- tured as a true artist , whose chief delight is in the practice of his art , though its cordial reception by great. 2 ENGLISH LITERATURE.
الصفحة 10
... chief home of England's literary activity shifted from north to south . Landing in the north , the Danes laid waste the country , ruthlessly destroying the monasteries , and threatening the entire land . That they were stopped before ...
... chief home of England's literary activity shifted from north to south . Landing in the north , the Danes laid waste the country , ruthlessly destroying the monasteries , and threatening the entire land . That they were stopped before ...
الصفحة 14
... chief contributions to literature were sermons and saints ' lives . Two writers of these are known to us by name Elfric , abbot of Eynsham near Oxford , and Wulfstan , Archbishop of York . Their interest for us to - day is very slight ...
... chief contributions to literature were sermons and saints ' lives . Two writers of these are known to us by name Elfric , abbot of Eynsham near Oxford , and Wulfstan , Archbishop of York . Their interest for us to - day is very slight ...
الصفحة 48
... . There was a great fondness for amusements and a widespread indulgence in them ; facts which doubtless did much to make the high development of the drama possible . To summarize , it may be said that the chief 48 ENGLISH LITERATURE.
... . There was a great fondness for amusements and a widespread indulgence in them ; facts which doubtless did much to make the high development of the drama possible . To summarize , it may be said that the chief 48 ENGLISH LITERATURE.
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الصفحة 380 - If I should die, think only this of me : That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed ; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam, A body of England's, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home. And think, this heart, all evil shed...
الصفحة 321 - That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work, that, as a mechanism, it is capable of...
الصفحة 253 - On a poet's lips I slept Dreaming like a love-adept In the sound his breathing kept; Nor seeks nor finds he mortal blisses, But feeds on the aerial kisses Of shapes that haunt thought's wildernesses.
الصفحة 128 - Tis resolved, for Nature pleads that he Should only rule who most resembles me. Shadwell alone my perfect image bears, Mature in dulness from his tender years ; Shadwell alone of all my sons is he Who stands confirmed in full stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense.
الصفحة 111 - And that must end us ; that must be our cure, To be no more : sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity., To perish rather, swallow'd up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion?
الصفحة 110 - They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand ; the gate With dreadful faces thronged, and fiery arms.
الصفحة 346 - The year's at the spring And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn: God's in his heaven — All's right with the world!
الصفحة 101 - Mortals, that would follow me, Love virtue; she alone is free. She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her.
الصفحة 232 - Humble and rustic life was generally chosen, because, in that condition, the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language...
الصفحة 29 - Of court, and been estatlich of manere, And to ben holden digne of reverence. But, for to speken of hir conscience, She was so charitable and so pitous, She wolde wepe, if that she sawe a mous Caught in a trappe, if it were deed or bledde.