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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... side of the Humber who were able to understand the English of their service , or to turn an epistle out of Latin into English ; and I know that there were not many beyond the Humber who could do it . " ― 23. Literary Labors . With ...
... side of the Humber who were able to understand the English of their service , or to turn an epistle out of Latin into English ; and I know that there were not many beyond the Humber who could do it . " ― 23. Literary Labors . With ...
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... side by side for centuries was gradually completed , and the great English nation , in its modern form , had its be- ginning a nation that in its type of character is second to none in the history of the world . ― - — 28. Literary ...
... side by side for centuries was gradually completed , and the great English nation , in its modern form , had its be- ginning a nation that in its type of character is second to none in the history of the world . ― - — 28. Literary ...
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... side , And as I lay and lened and loked in the wateres , I slombred in a slepyng it sweyved so merye . " - 35. Gower.- John Gower , a contemporary and friend of Chaucer , was of noble family . In dedicating a book to him , Chaucer ...
... side , And as I lay and lened and loked in the wateres , I slombred in a slepyng it sweyved so merye . " - 35. Gower.- John Gower , a contemporary and friend of Chaucer , was of noble family . In dedicating a book to him , Chaucer ...
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... side , and not a single writer in either prose or poetry attained to the first or even to the second rank . The cause of this literary barrenness is to be found partly in the repression of free inquiry by the church and parliament ...
... side , and not a single writer in either prose or poetry attained to the first or even to the second rank . The cause of this literary barrenness is to be found partly in the repression of free inquiry by the church and parliament ...
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... side reserved for a dressing room . The upper galleries , which extended around the entire building , were oc- cupied by boxes . This arrangement generally led to the adop- tion of octagonal - shaped buildings . Most of the theatres ...
... side reserved for a dressing room . The upper galleries , which extended around the entire building , were oc- cupied by boxes . This arrangement generally led to the adop- tion of octagonal - shaped buildings . Most of the theatres ...
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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...