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... greatest poems in all languages , finds no expression in their verse . - ( 3 ) Style . The lack of these features does not , however , signify a lack of interest for the reader . Even in translation we may see the poet's fondness for ...
... greatest poems in all languages , finds no expression in their verse . - ( 3 ) Style . The lack of these features does not , however , signify a lack of interest for the reader . Even in translation we may see the poet's fondness for ...
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... greatest work , The Canterbury Tales , of which the Prologue and most of the tales may be dated between his forty - fifth and fiftieth years . For a number of tales sources have been found ; for yet another number , close parallels ...
... greatest work , The Canterbury Tales , of which the Prologue and most of the tales may be dated between his forty - fifth and fiftieth years . For a number of tales sources have been found ; for yet another number , close parallels ...
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... greatest significance to literature took place about the middle of the century — the invention of printing from movable types . The invention reached England about a quarter of a century later ; and before the year 1500 nearly 400 books ...
... greatest significance to literature took place about the middle of the century — the invention of printing from movable types . The invention reached England about a quarter of a century later ; and before the year 1500 nearly 400 books ...
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... greatest value consisted in its providing material for the drama , the most characteristic literary form of the time . Compilations of British chroni- cles , crude but valuable dramas built up on classic models , translations of noted ...
... greatest value consisted in its providing material for the drama , the most characteristic literary form of the time . Compilations of British chroni- cles , crude but valuable dramas built up on classic models , translations of noted ...
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... greatest literature . Here one of the most splendid entertainments of Elizabeth took place . See Scott's Kenilworth . The first writer whom we are to take up is not one of the greatest . He fills only a small niche ; but we should add ...
... greatest literature . Here one of the most splendid entertainments of Elizabeth took place . See Scott's Kenilworth . The first writer whom we are to take up is not one of the greatest . He fills only a small niche ; but we should add ...
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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.