A Hand-book of English and American Literature: Historical and Critical : with Illustrations of the Writings of Each Successive Period : for the Use of Schools and Academies |
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... passed through the low - lying country of Saxe - land , immediately north of the Elbe River , and made settlements , over which the sons of Odin ruled . Angle - land lay just north of Saxe - land , and here Odin established his son ...
... passed through the low - lying country of Saxe - land , immediately north of the Elbe River , and made settlements , over which the sons of Odin ruled . Angle - land lay just north of Saxe - land , and here Odin established his son ...
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... passed through these countries or dwelt with these Celtic nations . † The Druids were a class of people held in sacred esteem by the Celts of Gaul and Britain . They had unlimited authority in religion and in affairs of government ...
... passed through these countries or dwelt with these Celtic nations . † The Druids were a class of people held in sacred esteem by the Celts of Gaul and Britain . They had unlimited authority in religion and in affairs of government ...
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... passed through all the provinces , forced the giants * Some portions of the Boke of Curtasye , especially those passages enjoining more decent habits at table and elsewhere , give an insight into manuers grosser than a refined age can ...
... passed through all the provinces , forced the giants * Some portions of the Boke of Curtasye , especially those passages enjoining more decent habits at table and elsewhere , give an insight into manuers grosser than a refined age can ...
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... passed a law enforcing the use of English in all judicial pleadings . Such uses of the language created an im- petus in the culture of the long - neglected mother - tongue . But the chief cause of the new life of the fourteenth century ...
... passed a law enforcing the use of English in all judicial pleadings . Such uses of the language created an im- petus in the culture of the long - neglected mother - tongue . But the chief cause of the new life of the fourteenth century ...
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... passed a law enforcing the use of English in judicial pleadings . Wycliffe's doctrines influenced the age . The fourteenth century was a period of intellectual regeneration through . out Europe . Dante , an Italian , was the first ...
... passed a law enforcing the use of English in judicial pleadings . Wycliffe's doctrines influenced the age . The fourteenth century was a period of intellectual regeneration through . out Europe . Dante , an Italian , was the first ...
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Page 196 - That, changed through all, and yet in all the same; Great in the earth, as in the ethereal frame; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees; Lives through all life, extends through all extent; Spreads undivided, operates unspent!
Page 473 - THE ARROW AND THE SONG. I SHOT an arrow into the air, It fell to earth I knew not where ; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where ; For who has sight so keen and strong, That it can follow the flight of song ! Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke ; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.
Page 301 - To bend with apples the mossed cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core ; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel ; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease ; For Summer has o'erbrimmed their clammy cells.
Page 197 - The world recedes; it disappears! Heaven opens on my eyes! my ears With sounds seraphic ring: Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O Grave ! where is thy victory ? O Death! where is thy sting?
Page 239 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossomed furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skilled to rule, The village master taught his little school. A man severe he was, and stern to view; I knew him well, and every truant knew; Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face...
Page 365 - Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Page 298 - We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Page 131 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple. Who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter ? Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing.
Page 107 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits, and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms...
Page 148 - WHEN I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he returning chide, ' Doth God exact day-labor, light denied ?