English Literary Miscellany: Series 1-2Bibliotheca Sacra Company, 1914 |
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... fully instituted induces violent reaction . These facts conceded , however , it may be said that the expla- nation of the Age of Elizabeth as one of these golden eras is not difficult to trace . Clearer at some points than at others ...
... fully instituted induces violent reaction . These facts conceded , however , it may be said that the expla- nation of the Age of Elizabeth as one of these golden eras is not difficult to trace . Clearer at some points than at others ...
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... fully understood when it is remembered that , in these medieval times , the laity as a class were pro- foundly ignorant , and necessarily looked to the clergy the learned class for their most ele- mentary enlightenment . The parish ...
... fully understood when it is remembered that , in these medieval times , the laity as a class were pro- foundly ignorant , and necessarily looked to the clergy the learned class for their most ele- mentary enlightenment . The parish ...
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... fully organized and equipped as the trav- eling bands of modern times . " The Creation of the World , " " The Fall of Man , " " The Story of the Flood , " " The Massacre of the Innocents " — in fine , all the prominent subjects of the ...
... fully organized and equipped as the trav- eling bands of modern times . " The Creation of the World , " " The Fall of Man , " " The Story of the Flood , " " The Massacre of the Innocents " — in fine , all the prominent subjects of the ...
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... fully established in each of its cardinal divisions and it is certainly a matter of congratulation that these earliest ex- amples of the tragic and the comic were as praise- worthy , mentally and morally , as they were . Sack- ville ...
... fully established in each of its cardinal divisions and it is certainly a matter of congratulation that these earliest ex- amples of the tragic and the comic were as praise- worthy , mentally and morally , as they were . Sack- ville ...
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... fully sus- tained , in that nearly all the dramatists of note were university men , presenting on the stage their own productions . By this union of author and actor in one personality , great mental and literary advantages were gained ...
... fully sus- tained , in that nearly all the dramatists of note were university men , presenting on the stage their own productions . By this union of author and actor in one personality , great mental and literary advantages were gained ...
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Página 229 - But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.
Página 199 - To one who has been long in city pent, "Tis very sweet to look into the fair And open face of heaven,— to breathe a prayer Full in the smile of the blue firmament. Who is more happy, when, with heart's content, Fatigued he sinks into some pleasant lair Of wavy grass, and reads a debonair And gentle tale of love and languishment? Returning home at evening, with an ear Catching the notes of Philomel, — an eye...
Página 169 - Such as may make thee search thy coffers round, Before thou clothe my fancy in fit sound : Such where the deep transported mind may soar Above the wheeling poles, and at Heaven's door Look in, and see each blissful Deity How he before the thunderous throne doth lie...
Página 309 - From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never ; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
Página 201 - And can I ever bid these joys farewell? Yes, I must pass them for a nobler life, Where I may find the agonies, the strife Of human hearts: for lo!
Página 199 - Why so sad a moan? Life is the rose's hope while yet unblown; The reading of an ever-changing tale; The light uplifting of a maiden's veil; A pigeon tumbling in clear summer air; A laughing school-boy, without grief or care, Riding the springy branches of an elm.
Página 166 - Shakespeare OTHERS abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask — Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge. For the loftiest hill, Who to the stars uncrowns his majesty, Planting his steadfast footsteps in the sea, Making the heaven of heavens his dwelling-place, Spares but the cloudy border of his base To the foil'd searching of mortality; And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, Self-school'd, self-scann'd, self-honour'd, self-secure, Didst tread on earth unguess'd at.
Página 197 - The morning precious: beauty was awake! Why were ye not awake? But ye were dead To things ye knew not of, — were closely wed To musty laws lined out with wretched rule And compass vile: so that ye taught a school Of dolts to smooth, inlay, and clip, and fit, Till, like the certain wands of Jacob's wit, Their verses tallied. Easy was the task: A thousand handicraftsmen wore the mask Of Poesy.
Página 251 - The year's at the spring And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn: God's in his heaven — All's right with the world!
Página 229 - Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; 11.