A First View of English LiteratureC. Scribner's sons, 1905 - 386 páginas |
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... turning the Old Tes- tament narrative into song . Caedmon's Paraphrases . - The poems which have come down to us under Caedmon's name consist of paraphrases of Genesis , of Exodus , and a part of 14 Old English Period.
... turning the Old Tes- tament narrative into song . Caedmon's Paraphrases . - The poems which have come down to us under Caedmon's name consist of paraphrases of Genesis , of Exodus , and a part of 14 Old English Period.
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... turned to write religious poems . We have , signed with his name in strange characters called runes , two lives of saints , St. Juliana and Elene , and the Christ , an epic dealing with the Saviour's incarnation and ascension , and with ...
... turned to write religious poems . We have , signed with his name in strange characters called runes , two lives of saints , St. Juliana and Elene , and the Christ , an epic dealing with the Saviour's incarnation and ascension , and with ...
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... Saxon people in Britain . When the Danes , victorious in Northumbria , began to press south- westward into the kingdom of Wessex , Alfred the Great held the throne . His heroism turned back the tide 18 Old English Period III.
... Saxon people in Britain . When the Danes , victorious in Northumbria , began to press south- westward into the kingdom of Wessex , Alfred the Great held the throne . His heroism turned back the tide 18 Old English Period III.
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William Vaughn Moody, Robert Morss Lovett. held the throne . His heroism turned back the tide of bar- barian invasion . By the treaty of Wedmore , which he forced upon them in 878 , the Danes pledged themselves to remain north of Watling ...
William Vaughn Moody, Robert Morss Lovett. held the throne . His heroism turned back the tide of bar- barian invasion . By the treaty of Wedmore , which he forced upon them in 878 , the Danes pledged themselves to remain north of Watling ...
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... turned over the leaves ; lovingly he beheld them - may the Lord be merciful to him ! Pen he took with fingers , and wrote on book - skin , and compressed the three books into one . " The poem opens with an account of how Æneas's great ...
... turned over the leaves ; lovingly he beheld them - may the Lord be merciful to him ! Pen he took with fingers , and wrote on book - skin , and compressed the three books into one . " The poem opens with an account of how Æneas's great ...
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Página 79 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised: thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet.
Página 196 - Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but you are surprised to find it done at all.
Página 108 - Yes, trust them not ! for there is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his " Tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide," supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you ; and, being an absolute Johannes Factotum, is, in his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in a country.
Página 256 - Of aspect more sublime: that blessed mood In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world, 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...
Página 280 - I was stared at, hooted at, grinned at, chattered at, by monkeys, by paroquets, by cockatoos. I ran into pagodas : and was fixed for centuries at the summit, or in secret rooms ; I was the idol; I was the priest; I was worshipped; I was sacrificed.
Página 192 - For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered is best...
Página 203 - I think it may be necessary to consider distinctly the true nature and the peculiar circumstances of the object which we have before us; because after all our struggle, whether we will or not, we must govern America according to that nature and to those circumstances, and not according to our own imaginations...
Página 136 - Now, since these dead bones have already outlasted the living ones of Methuselah, and, in a yard under ground, and thin walls of clay, outworn all the strong and specious buildings above it, and quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests...
Página 100 - Was this the face that launched a thousand ships And burnt the topless towers of Ilium ? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.
Página 110 - A tedious brief scene of young Pyramus, And his love Thisbe ; very tragical mirth.