English LiteratureAllyn and Bacon, 1918 - 397 páginas |
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... given to those writers only whose works have a basis of appeal to the average student . The personal , biographical element predominates ; but consistent effort has been made to bring the writers into relation with the national and ...
... given to those writers only whose works have a basis of appeal to the average student . The personal , biographical element predominates ; but consistent effort has been made to bring the writers into relation with the national and ...
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... given , and that the prospect of ever giving such a defini- tion is small . Shakspere's dramas , Chaucer's tales in verse , Lamb's informal essays , Macaulay's formal essays in literary criticism , Huxley's formal essays on scientific ...
... given , and that the prospect of ever giving such a defini- tion is small . Shakspere's dramas , Chaucer's tales in verse , Lamb's informal essays , Macaulay's formal essays in literary criticism , Huxley's formal essays on scientific ...
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... given Milton hints for Paradise Lost . 66 66 " " Cynewulf . The name of Cynewulf we know from his working it into several of his poems by means of symbols called runes . " Of his life it cannot be said that we really know anything ...
... given Milton hints for Paradise Lost . 66 66 " " Cynewulf . The name of Cynewulf we know from his working it into several of his poems by means of symbols called runes . " Of his life it cannot be said that we really know anything ...
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... given , the Green Knight takes up his head and rides out , the head calling upon Gawain to keep his ap- pointment next New Year's Day at the Green Chapel . Faithful to his word , Gawain reaches the chapel on the appointed day , and ...
... given , the Green Knight takes up his head and rides out , the head calling upon Gawain to keep his ap- pointment next New Year's Day at the Green Chapel . Faithful to his word , Gawain reaches the chapel on the appointed day , and ...
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... given to the author of a work called the Vision of Piers the Plowman , written about 1362 , and subsequently revised and extended . For a number of years . a controversy has raged over the authorship of the Vision , some scholars ...
... given to the author of a work called the Vision of Piers the Plowman , written about 1362 , and subsequently revised and extended . For a number of years . a controversy has raged over the authorship of the Vision , some scholars ...
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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.