English LiteratureCharles E. Merrill Company, 1916 - 585 páginas |
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... ideals of a heroic age . Beowulf is the ideal hero and king , strong , brave , chivalrous , generous , and devoted to his people . A lofty morality pervades the poem ; Beowulf was a man who never swore a false oath . " Women are ...
... ideals of a heroic age . Beowulf is the ideal hero and king , strong , brave , chivalrous , generous , and devoted to his people . A lofty morality pervades the poem ; Beowulf was a man who never swore a false oath . " Women are ...
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... ideals . Indeed , we still have the Teutonic deities with us in the names of the days of the week , and our Christmas and Eastertide were origi- nally heathen festivals . AN OLD CELTIC CROSS The subjects of poetry were now taken from ...
... ideals . Indeed , we still have the Teutonic deities with us in the names of the days of the week , and our Christmas and Eastertide were origi- nally heathen festivals . AN OLD CELTIC CROSS The subjects of poetry were now taken from ...
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... ideals of Christianity . Of the personality of Cadmon little is known . He held some menial position in the monastery of Whitby , and died in 680 . Cadmon's Dream The story of Cadmon's gift of song is given by Bæda , or Bede , the ...
... ideals of Christianity . Of the personality of Cadmon little is known . He held some menial position in the monastery of Whitby , and died in 680 . Cadmon's Dream The story of Cadmon's gift of song is given by Bæda , or Bede , the ...
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... ideal heroic type , who despises death in his devotion to the obligations of friendship and pa- triotism . The battle goes against him , and he dies with words of cheer for his comrades and a prayer to the " Lord of Angels " that his ...
... ideal heroic type , who despises death in his devotion to the obligations of friendship and pa- triotism . The battle goes against him , and he dies with words of cheer for his comrades and a prayer to the " Lord of Angels " that his ...
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... ideals , and inspiration . Character of Alfred's Work follow when al Saxon . expressi and sto but An ing the led fin EM ing m But the chief interest of Alfred's work , for the student of literature , centers in the brief prefaces to his ...
... ideals , and inspiration . Character of Alfred's Work follow when al Saxon . expressi and sto but An ing the led fin EM ing m But the chief interest of Alfred's work , for the student of literature , centers in the brief prefaces to his ...
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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.