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... Literature - The Two Forms of Literature - Poetry the Earliest Form of Literature - Re- ligious and Secular Literature - Have Barbarous People a Literature - Value of Early Records - Sources of English Literature - Origin of the English ...
... Literature - The Two Forms of Literature - Poetry the Earliest Form of Literature - Re- ligious and Secular Literature - Have Barbarous People a Literature - Value of Early Records - Sources of English Literature - Origin of the English ...
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Abel S. Clark. CHAPTER III . English Literature of the Fourteenth Century - Piers Plowman's Vision - Sir John Mandeville - John Wicliffe — John Gower - Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales , 29 CHAPTER IV . English Literature of the ...
Abel S. Clark. CHAPTER III . English Literature of the Fourteenth Century - Piers Plowman's Vision - Sir John Mandeville - John Wicliffe — John Gower - Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales , 29 CHAPTER IV . English Literature of the ...
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... Emerson , James Russell Lowell , Oliver Wendell Holmes , Frontispiece To face 34 66 80 100 114 122 128 134 140 146 152 160 168 178 182 190 194 198 202 206 210 214 218 222 PRIMER OF ENGLISH LITERATURE . CHAPTER I. 1. Origin and ( ix )
... Emerson , James Russell Lowell , Oliver Wendell Holmes , Frontispiece To face 34 66 80 100 114 122 128 134 140 146 152 160 168 178 182 190 194 198 202 206 210 214 218 222 PRIMER OF ENGLISH LITERATURE . CHAPTER I. 1. Origin and ( ix )
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... Literature . Our English word Literature comes from the Latin litera , which means a letter or a writing . In its widest meaning the word literature in- cludes all that has been written in a language , but the meaning is generally ...
... Literature . Our English word Literature comes from the Latin litera , which means a letter or a writing . In its widest meaning the word literature in- cludes all that has been written in a language , but the meaning is generally ...
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Page 66 - AND is there care in heaven ? and is there love In heavenly spirits to these creatures base, That may compassion of their evils move ? There is...
Page 82 - 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 84 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Page 83 - ... tis nobler in the mind, to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune ; Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And, by opposing, end them ? To die — to sleep...
Page 82 - With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon.
Page 155 - On Linden, when the sun was low All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser rolling rapidly.
Page 124 - And, certes,* in fair virtue's heavenly road, The cottage leaves the palace far behind. What is a lordling's pomp ? A cumbrous load, Disguising oft the wretch of human kind!
Page 124 - And, oh ! may Heaven their simple lives prevent From luxury's contagion, weak and vile ! Then, howe'er crowns and coronets be rent, A virtuous populace may rise the while, And stand a wall of fire around their much-loved Isle.
Page 83 - To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time.
Page 82 - With spectacles on nose, and pouch on side ; His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank ; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound : last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness, and mere oblivion ; Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.