English LiteratureAllyn and Bacon, 1918 - 397 páginas |
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... entire day , from early morning when the warriors gathered in the gift - hall , till the hour when they " sank to sleep , " each with his armor and weapons at hand . " It was their custom ,. CAEDMON CROSS AT WHITBY . RUINS OF WHITBY ...
... entire day , from early morning when the warriors gathered in the gift - hall , till the hour when they " sank to sleep , " each with his armor and weapons at hand . " It was their custom ,. CAEDMON CROSS AT WHITBY . RUINS OF WHITBY ...
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... entire land . That they were stopped before making a complete conquest was due to the bravery and effective leadership of Alfred , King of Wessex ( i.e. , of the West Saxons ) , called the Great . At Edington in Wiltshire in 878 the ...
... entire land . That they were stopped before making a complete conquest was due to the bravery and effective leadership of Alfred , King of Wessex ( i.e. , of the West Saxons ) , called the Great . At Edington in Wiltshire in 878 the ...
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... history . The entries vary greatly in length and importance . For the year 444 , for example , the entire record is that " Saint Martin died ; " whereas for 449 there is an account in much detail of the coming of. 12 ENGLISH LITERATURE.
... history . The entries vary greatly in length and importance . For the year 444 , for example , the entire record is that " Saint Martin died ; " whereas for 449 there is an account in much detail of the coming of. 12 ENGLISH LITERATURE.
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... entire Bible , that the people might read and interpret for them- selves , and that each individual might work out a rule of life for himself . Addressed chiefly to the uneducated , Wic- lif's Bible is characterized by the simplicity ...
... entire Bible , that the people might read and interpret for them- selves , and that each individual might work out a rule of life for himself . Addressed chiefly to the uneducated , Wic- lif's Bible is characterized by the simplicity ...
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... entire by few but specialists , carefully made selections should interest a large circle of readers ; for the tone of moral earnestness , the charm of highly imaginative word - paintings , and the graceful music of the verse are ever ...
... entire by few but specialists , carefully made selections should interest a large circle of readers ; for the tone of moral earnestness , the charm of highly imaginative word - paintings , and the graceful music of the verse are ever ...
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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.