A First View of English LiteratureC. Scribner's sons, 1905 - 386 من الصفحات |
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... poetry in England . Bede and Caedmon . - Many monasteries sprang up in Northumbria in the train of the Celtic ... poet of Christian England . Bede tells us that when the inmates of the monastery were gathered together at the evening ...
... poetry in England . Bede and Caedmon . - Many monasteries sprang up in Northumbria in the train of the Celtic ... poet of Christian England . Bede tells us that when the inmates of the monastery were gathered together at the evening ...
الصفحة 15
... poet expands his matter freely , adorning it with his own fancy . In Exodus , for instance , all the interest is ... poetry which up to this time he had written , and turned to write religious poems . We have , signed with his name ...
... poet expands his matter freely , adorning it with his own fancy . In Exodus , for instance , all the interest is ... poetry which up to this time he had written , and turned to write religious poems . We have , signed with his name ...
الصفحة 16
... poetry . It is pleasant , even if not quite scientific , to think of the Riddles as the youthful work of Cynewulf , since his is the only poet's name that has survived from those obscure and troubled times . The " Phoenix . " - The ...
... poetry . It is pleasant , even if not quite scientific , to think of the Riddles as the youthful work of Cynewulf , since his is the only poet's name that has survived from those obscure and troubled times . The " Phoenix . " - The ...
الصفحة 17
... poetry attributed to Caedmon and his school , and to Cynewulf and his school , there exist a few short poems of the greatest interest . One of these , called " The Wife's Lament , " gives us a glimpse of one of the harsh customs of our ...
... poetry attributed to Caedmon and his school , and to Cynewulf and his school , there exist a few short poems of the greatest interest . One of these , called " The Wife's Lament , " gives us a glimpse of one of the harsh customs of our ...
الصفحة 20
... poetic episodes , known as the " Battle of Brunanburh , " is entered under the year 937. Another , the " Death of Byrhtnoth , " also called the " Battle of Mal- don , " bears date 991 ; it is the swan - song of Anglo - Saxon poetry ...
... poetic episodes , known as the " Battle of Brunanburh , " is entered under the year 937. Another , the " Death of Byrhtnoth , " also called the " Battle of Mal- don , " bears date 991 ; it is the swan - song of Anglo - Saxon poetry ...
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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.