The Making of English LiteratureD. C. Heath, 1924 - 536 páginas |
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... give a certain degree of unity to the multitudinous variety of life and literature , and that these forces do mark for us the central current of the great literary stream . To observe the guiding impulses that have shaped the life of ...
... give a certain degree of unity to the multitudinous variety of life and literature , and that these forces do mark for us the central current of the great literary stream . To observe the guiding impulses that have shaped the life of ...
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... give ad- ditional insight into the conditions under which it was produced . The Charms Certain portions of the so - called Charms represent a form of folk - poetry that may be as old as the Teutonic race , and some of their lines carry ...
... give ad- ditional insight into the conditions under which it was produced . The Charms Certain portions of the so - called Charms represent a form of folk - poetry that may be as old as the Teutonic race , and some of their lines carry ...
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... give evidence of the antiquity of the poem . Its literary value is small ; but as the earliest complete poem of the literature , and as a description of the life of an Anglo - Saxon scop , it is of priceless worth . It is thus that our ...
... give evidence of the antiquity of the poem . Its literary value is small ; but as the earliest complete poem of the literature , and as a description of the life of an Anglo - Saxon scop , it is of priceless worth . It is thus that our ...
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... gives utterance to a bitter personal grief ; but he strength- ens his heart with the thought that as the heroes of story have endured great sorrows , so he may endure his . Of the names mentioned , some are found in Widsið . Some also ...
... gives utterance to a bitter personal grief ; but he strength- ens his heart with the thought that as the heroes of story have endured great sorrows , so he may endure his . Of the names mentioned , some are found in Widsið . Some also ...
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... gives two in the first half line and one in the second . This metre has a peculiar effect , and could be greatly varied by increasing or decreasing the number of unac- cented syllables . It is strongly rhythmical and yet singu- larly ...
... gives two in the first half line and one in the second . This metre has a peculiar effect , and could be greatly varied by increasing or decreasing the number of unac- cented syllables . It is strongly rhythmical and yet singu- larly ...
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Página 311 - The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends on me; my spirit's bark is driven, Far from the shore, far from the trembling throng Whose sails were never to the tempest given; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven! I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar; Whilst burning through the inmost veil of Heaven, The soul of Adonais, like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are.
Página 316 - Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy ? There was an awful rainbow once in heaven : We know her woof, her texture ; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air and gnomed mine — Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made The tender-person'd Lamia melt into a shade.
Página 150 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised: thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet.
Página 312 - To suffer woes which hope thinks infinite ; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night ; To defy power which seems omnipotent ; To love and bear ; to hope till hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates...
Página 170 - I was confirmed in this opinion ; that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Página 375 - O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence : live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge men's search To vaster issues.
Página 133 - Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on ; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
Página 132 - She should have died hereafter ; There would have been a time for such a word. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death.
Página 130 - 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 387 - How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.