English LiteratureAllyn and Bacon, 1918 - 397 páginas |
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... became a rather better literary instru- ment in their hands . " Under Alfred's successors the Danes regained most of their lost territory ; and the decay of national life went along with , possibly helped to bring about , the decay of ...
... became a rather better literary instru- ment in their hands . " Under Alfred's successors the Danes regained most of their lost territory ; and the decay of national life went along with , possibly helped to bring about , the decay of ...
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... became anything like French . The fact that even at the present time English has more words from other sources than from Anglo - Saxon does not signify that the native ele- ment of our vocabulary is small ; for of the words used often ...
... became anything like French . The fact that even at the present time English has more words from other sources than from Anglo - Saxon does not signify that the native ele- ment of our vocabulary is small ; for of the words used often ...
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... became head of an English trading company at Bruges ( Brūzh ) . Leaving this business he entered the service of Margaret , Duchess of Burgundy , and there began the series of translations which give him a place in literature as well as ...
... became head of an English trading company at Bruges ( Brūzh ) . Leaving this business he entered the service of Margaret , Duchess of Burgundy , and there began the series of translations which give him a place in literature as well as ...
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... became a member of the household of Henry VIII , and was knighted . An extensive acquaintance with Europe came to him as a result of appointment on various embassies to France , Spain , Italy , and the Netherlands . Like most of Henry's ...
... became a member of the household of Henry VIII , and was knighted . An extensive acquaintance with Europe came to him as a result of appointment on various embassies to France , Spain , Italy , and the Netherlands . Like most of Henry's ...
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... became tutor to the Queen . A boy of humble birth , apprenticed at an early age on a small coasting vessel , developed a passion for exploration , was aided by the Queen , and is known in history as Sir Francis Drake , Admiral ...
... became tutor to the Queen . A boy of humble birth , apprenticed at an early age on a small coasting vessel , developed a passion for exploration , was aided by the Queen , and is known in history as Sir Francis Drake , Admiral ...
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Página 380 - If I should die, think only this of me : That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed ; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam, A body of England's, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home. And think, this heart, all evil shed...
Página 321 - That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work, that, as a mechanism, it is capable of...
Página 253 - On a poet's lips I slept Dreaming like a love-adept In the sound his breathing kept; Nor seeks nor finds he mortal blisses, But feeds on the aerial kisses Of shapes that haunt thought's wildernesses.
Página 128 - Tis resolved, for Nature pleads that he Should only rule who most resembles me. Shadwell alone my perfect image bears, Mature in dulness from his tender years ; Shadwell alone of all my sons is he Who stands confirmed in full stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense.
Página 111 - And that must end us ; that must be our cure, To be no more : sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity., To perish rather, swallow'd up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion?
Página 110 - They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand ; the gate With dreadful faces thronged, and fiery arms.
Página 346 - 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 101 - Mortals, that would follow me, Love virtue; she alone is free. She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her.
Página 232 - Humble and rustic life was generally chosen, because, in that condition, the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language...
Página 29 - Of court, and been estatlich of manere, And to ben holden digne of reverence. But, for to speken of hir conscience, She was so charitable and so pitous, She wolde wepe, if that she sawe a mous Caught in a trappe, if it were deed or bledde.