English LiteratureCharles E. Merrill Company, 1916 - 585 páginas |
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... writer whose meditations were always lofty and pure . Alfred's purpose and method are explained in the opening lines of ... writing , then I began , among other various and mani- fold businesses of this kingdom , to turn into English the ...
... writer whose meditations were always lofty and pure . Alfred's purpose and method are explained in the opening lines of ... writing , then I began , among other various and mani- fold businesses of this kingdom , to turn into English the ...
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... Writers , vols . 1 and 11 ; Jusserand's Literary History of the English People ; Taine's History of English Literature ; Snell's Age of Alfred ; Cook's Asser's Life of King Alfred ; Lewis's Beginnings of English Literature ; Pauli's ...
... Writers , vols . 1 and 11 ; Jusserand's Literary History of the English People ; Taine's History of English Literature ; Snell's Age of Alfred ; Cook's Asser's Life of King Alfred ; Lewis's Beginnings of English Literature ; Pauli's ...
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... writing , however , was energetically cultivated during this barren period . In the monasteries were scholars of large attainments , many of whom had come from abroad . As if foreseeing the great future of the nation that was now in the ...
... writing , however , was energetically cultivated during this barren period . In the monasteries were scholars of large attainments , many of whom had come from abroad . As if foreseeing the great future of the nation that was now in the ...
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... writing in Latin . His History of the Kings of England gives evidence not only of scholarly industry and judgment , but also of imagina- tion , taste , and literary aspiration . Passages like the following , from his account of the ...
... writing in Latin . His History of the Kings of England gives evidence not only of scholarly industry and judgment , but also of imagina- tion , taste , and literary aspiration . Passages like the following , from his account of the ...
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... writer had noted with pious sympathy that since French poetry became fashionable , those who " na French can " had no books for their amusement and profit . So he sup- plied the need with this huge poem of thirty thousand lines , a well ...
... writer had noted with pious sympathy that since French poetry became fashionable , those who " na French can " had no books for their amusement and profit . So he sup- plied the need with this huge poem of thirty thousand lines , a well ...
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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.