A first sketch of English literature. With suppl. to the end of queen Victoria's reign1912 |
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... brought out the noblest life of men touched to the quick and concentrating all their powers for defence of home and liberty . Here also was a struggle against overwhelming force , closed with a ruinous defeat in battle . This was the ...
... brought out the noblest life of men touched to the quick and concentrating all their powers for defence of home and liberty . Here also was a struggle against overwhelming force , closed with a ruinous defeat in battle . This was the ...
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... brought with them battle - songs and a heroic legend of a chief named Beowulf . This legend was afterwards put into First English verse , probably in the seventh century , perhaps earlier or later , and remains to us , under the name of ...
... brought with them battle - songs and a heroic legend of a chief named Beowulf . This legend was afterwards put into First English verse , probably in the seventh century , perhaps earlier or later , and remains to us , under the name of ...
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... brought to Rome . He refused in his own monastery the dignity of abbot , because " the office demands household care ; and household care brings with it distraction of mind , which hinders the pur- suit of learning . " He was thus at ...
... brought to Rome . He refused in his own monastery the dignity of abbot , because " the office demands household care ; and household care brings with it distraction of mind , which hinders the pur- suit of learning . " He was thus at ...
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... brought his record down to 1117 , the year before his death ; and it was continued to 1141 by other brethren of his monastery . Eadmer , one of the Benedictines of Canterbury , who says that from childhood he was in the habit of noting ...
... brought his record down to 1117 , the year before his death ; and it was continued to 1141 by other brethren of his monastery . Eadmer , one of the Benedictines of Canterbury , who says that from childhood he was in the habit of noting ...
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... brought them leisure and temptation of the flesh , but still they were centres of intelligence ; and as , in Southern Europe , along the coasts of the Mediterranean , contact with tuneful rhyming Arabs was awakening a soft strain of ...
... brought them leisure and temptation of the flesh , but still they were centres of intelligence ; and as , in Southern Europe , along the coasts of the Mediterranean , contact with tuneful rhyming Arabs was awakening a soft strain of ...
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Page 484 - But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held ; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
Page 497 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! Heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtle flame As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life.
Page 314 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Page 818 - His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity : All must be false that thwart this one great end, And all of God that bless mankind or mend. Man, like the generous vine, supported lives ; The strength he gains is from th
Page 437 - I am as sorry as if the original fault had been my fault, because myself have seen his demeanour no less civil than he excellent in the quality he professes: besides, divers of worship have reported his uprightness of dealing which argues his honesty, and his facetious grace in writing, that approves his art.
Page 780 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel by divine command With rising tempests shakes a guilty land, Such as of late o'er pale Britannia past, Calm and serene he drives the furious blast ; And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm.
Page 518 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit, or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect, or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon, or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention, or a shop for profit and sale ; and not a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Page 498 - Euripides, and Sophocles to us, Paccuvius, Accius, him of Cordova dead, To life again, to hear thy buskin tread, And shake a stage : or, when thy socks were on, Leave thee alone, for the comparison Of all that insolent Greece or haughty Rome Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come.
Page 354 - I bear them, so without measure misordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr.
Page 414 - At cards for kisses — Cupid paid; He stakes his quiver, bow and arrows, His mother's doves, and team of sparrows ; Loses them too; then down he throws The coral of his lip, the rose Growing on's cheek (but none knows how), With these, the crystal of his brow, And then the dimple of his chin ; All these did my Campaspe win. At last he set her both his eyes, She won, and Cupid blind did rise. O Love! has she done this to thee? What shall, alas! become of me?* THE SONGS OF BIRDS. WHAT bird so sings,...