A manual of English literatureLongman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1873 - 423 páginas |
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... reign gave an impulse rather to the Scandinavian than to the Saxon genius . No English poet sang of his victories ; that task was left to the scalds , 1 Turner , Ang . - Sax . Book vi . ch . xiv . whom he brought with him from Denmark ...
... reign gave an impulse rather to the Scandinavian than to the Saxon genius . No English poet sang of his victories ; that task was left to the scalds , 1 Turner , Ang . - Sax . Book vi . ch . xiv . whom he brought with him from Denmark ...
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... reign of Henry II . ( 1154 ) , the writer or writers being by that time probably unable to resist any longer the universal fashion of employing Latin for any serious prose work . William of Malmesbury , Henry of Huntingdon , Geoffrey of ...
... reign of Henry II . ( 1154 ) , the writer or writers being by that time probably unable to resist any longer the universal fashion of employing Latin for any serious prose work . William of Malmesbury , Henry of Huntingdon , Geoffrey of ...
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... reign was contemporary with that of Charlemagne ) , and Al Mamoun , his successor , saw and assisted in the commencement of a brilliant period of literary activity in the nations of Arabian race , which lasted from the ninth to the ...
... reign was contemporary with that of Charlemagne ) , and Al Mamoun , his successor , saw and assisted in the commencement of a brilliant period of literary activity in the nations of Arabian race , which lasted from the ninth to the ...
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... reign of Henry II . , was a churchman devoted to legal and technical studies , who acted as one of the king's clerks or secretaries . Thus is explained the manner in which his Annals are encumbered with copies of charters , letters ...
... reign of Henry II . , was a churchman devoted to legal and technical studies , who acted as one of the king's clerks or secretaries . Thus is explained the manner in which his Annals are encumbered with copies of charters , letters ...
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... reign of James I. To trace this feeling to its sources would be a very curious inquiry , but it is one foreign to our present purpose . The second principal cause of this scientific sterility lay in the superior attractiveness of ...
... reign of James I. To trace this feeling to its sources would be a very curious inquiry , but it is one foreign to our present purpose . The second principal cause of this scientific sterility lay in the superior attractiveness of ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 466 - Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I'll not look for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth rise Doth ask a drink divine ; But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine. I sent thee late a rosy wreath, Not so much honouring thee...
Página 459 - Enlarged winds, that curl the flood, Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
Página 387 - Two of far nobler shape erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad In naked majesty seemed lords of all, And worthy seemed, for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure, Severe, but in true filial freedom...
Página 358 - Heaven lies about us in our infancy. Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy; But he beholds the light and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy. The youth who daily farther from the East Must travel, still is Nature's priest, And, by the vision splendid, Is on his way attended. At length the man perceives it die away And fade into the light of common day.
Página 482 - May have broken the woof of my tent's thin roof, The Stars peep behind her and peer. And I laugh to see them whirl and flee Like a swarm of golden bees, When I widen the rent in my wind-built tent, — Till the calm rivers, lakes, and seas, Like strips of the sky fallen through me on high, Are each paved with the moon and these.
Página 289 - It was said of Socrates that he brought Philosophy down from Heaven, to inhabit among men; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of closets and libraries, schools and colleges, to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea-tables and in coffee-houses.
Página 253 - A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high, He sought the storms ; but for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
Página 454 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe the' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Página 432 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutored mind Sees GOD in clouds, or hears Him in the wind ; His soul proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
Página 389 - So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless faithful only he; Among innumerable false unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.