Introduction to English Literature, with Suggestions for Further Reading and Study, and Annotated Selections, Illustrating the Successive Periods and Principal Authors1905 - 700 pages |
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... appeared to him and said : " Cædmon , sing a song to me . " He answered : " I cannot sing ; for that is the reason why I left the entertainment , and retired to this place . " " Nevertheless , " said the heavenly visitor , " thou shalt ...
... appeared to him and said : " Cædmon , sing a song to me . " He answered : " I cannot sing ; for that is the reason why I left the entertainment , and retired to this place . " " Nevertheless , " said the heavenly visitor , " thou shalt ...
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... appeared in type in 1456. It became a powerful aid in the revival of learning . It at once supplanted the tedious and costly process of copying books by hand , and brought the repositories of learning within reach of the common people ...
... appeared in type in 1456. It became a powerful aid in the revival of learning . It at once supplanted the tedious and costly process of copying books by hand , and brought the repositories of learning within reach of the common people ...
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... appeared in England . Raleigh's large experience and practical sense preserved him from pedantry , while his reflections are often striking and sometimes eloquent . " O elo- quent , just , and mighty death ! " he exclaims , " whom none ...
... appeared in England . Raleigh's large experience and practical sense preserved him from pedantry , while his reflections are often striking and sometimes eloquent . " O elo- quent , just , and mighty death ! " he exclaims , " whom none ...
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... not known , but it appeared prior to 1551. Unlike the Miracle and Moral plays , it is di- vided into acts and scenes an advance in dramatic form sug- 66 gested by classical models . The first regular tragedy FIRST CREATIVE PERIOD . 43.
... not known , but it appeared prior to 1551. Unlike the Miracle and Moral plays , it is di- vided into acts and scenes an advance in dramatic form sug- 66 gested by classical models . The first regular tragedy FIRST CREATIVE PERIOD . 43.
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... appeared a large number of dramatists , whose works . possess not simply historical interest , but also intrinsic excel- lence . Among the predecessors of Shakespeare were Kyd , Lyly , Peele , Greene , and Marlowe . - - 68. Early ...
... appeared a large number of dramatists , whose works . possess not simply historical interest , but also intrinsic excel- lence . Among the predecessors of Shakespeare were Kyd , Lyly , Peele , Greene , and Marlowe . - - 68. Early ...
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Page 609 - ... tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy ; for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life Shall e'er prevail against us or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is full of blessings.
Page 557 - Far, far away thy children leave the land. 5° 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made : But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Page 613 - Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even with something of a Mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely Nurse doth all she can To make her Foster-child, her Inmate Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the Child among his new-born blisses, A six-years
Page 615 - What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind...
Page 213 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more...
Page 608 - Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye. - That time is past, And all its aching joys are now no more, And all its dizzy raptures. Not for this Faint I, nor mourn nor murmur; other gifts Have followed; for such loss, I would believe, Abundant recompense. For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes The...
Page 607 - 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: While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.
Page 615 - Hence in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore...
Page 672 - Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows ; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down : It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides ; and tho...
Page 608 - All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things. Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods, And mountains; and of all that we behold From this green earth; of all the mighty world Of eye, and ear, — both what they half create, And what perceive...