English LiteratureCharles E. Merrill Company, 1916 - 585 páginas |
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... heroes with ex- travagant virtues that could exist only in the realms of fancy . The collection of Welsh tales called the Mabinogion is a fair illustration of the Celtic charm . There is little thought - substance in this literature ...
... heroes with ex- travagant virtues that could exist only in the realms of fancy . The collection of Welsh tales called the Mabinogion is a fair illustration of the Celtic charm . There is little thought - substance in this literature ...
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... heroes . " Sometimes the chief himself took the harp and sang , like Hrothgar in Beowulf , and sometimes even the retainers could add a lay when the harp was passed around , as is seen in the story of Cædmon . King Alfred loved the old ...
... heroes . " Sometimes the chief himself took the harp and sang , like Hrothgar in Beowulf , and sometimes even the retainers could add a lay when the harp was passed around , as is seen in the story of Cædmon . King Alfred loved the old ...
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... hero , Beowulf . These ballads in time were woven together into a connected whole , very much as the poems of Homer are believed to have originated . The single existing text of the poem - a precious Sa trutt par fean fah seis pisode ...
... hero , Beowulf . These ballads in time were woven together into a connected whole , very much as the poems of Homer are believed to have originated . The single existing text of the poem - a precious Sa trutt par fean fah seis pisode ...
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... hero's consolation . " Sorrow not , wise man . ' Better it is to avenge a friend than to mourn him much . Let him who may win honor , and accept death when it comes ; that is best for a warrior . I promise thee Grendel's kin shall not ...
... hero's consolation . " Sorrow not , wise man . ' Better it is to avenge a friend than to mourn him much . Let him who may win honor , and accept death when it comes ; that is best for a warrior . I promise thee Grendel's kin shall not ...
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... Hero 66 All day long his faithful thanes have waited , heart - sick with gazing on the blood - stained waters , thinking never to see their dear lord again . At length Beowulf appears , and in triumph they carry the head of Grendel to ...
... Hero 66 All day long his faithful thanes have waited , heart - sick with gazing on the blood - stained waters , thinking never to see their dear lord again . At length Beowulf appears , and in triumph they carry the head of Grendel to ...
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Página 196 - No more of that. — I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice...
Página 148 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Página 348 - A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye ; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky...
Página 259 - Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Página 428 - Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is : What if my leaves are falling like its own ! The tumult of thy mighty harmonies Will take from both a deep, autumnal tone, Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit fierce, My spirit ! Be thou me, impetuous one...
Página 263 - For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints, whom all men grant To be the true church militant ; Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun ; Decide all controversies by Infallible artillery ; And prove their doctrine orthodox By apostolic blows and knocks...
Página 226 - If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two, Thy soul, the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th' other do. And though it in the center sit, Yet when the other far doth roam, It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th' other foot, obliquely run; Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end, where I begun.
Página 198 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
Página 535 - Dreamer of dreams, born out of my due time, Why should I strive to set the crooked straight ? Let it suffice me that my murmuring rhyme Beats with light wing against the ivory gate, Telling a tale not too importunate To those who in the sleepy region stay, Lulled by the singer of an empty day.
Página 527 - Hark ! where my blossomed pear-tree in the hedge Leans to the field, and scatters on the clover Blossoms and dewdrops, — at the bent spray's edge, — That 's the wise thrush ; he sings each song twice over, Lest you should think he never could recapture The first fine careless rapture.