A First Sketch of English Literature, Parte2Cassell, 1890 - 1099 páginas |
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... poem of 6,357 short lines , the most ancient heroic poem in any Germanic lan- guage . Its hero sails from a land of the Goths to a land of the Danes , and there he frees a chief named Hrothgar from the attacks of a monster of the fens ...
... poem of 6,357 short lines , the most ancient heroic poem in any Germanic lan- guage . Its hero sails from a land of the Goths to a land of the Danes , and there he frees a chief named Hrothgar from the attacks of a monster of the fens ...
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... poem . Thus we are almost tempted to accept a theory which makes that cliff , the highest on our eastern coast , the ... poem , known as Cædmon's “ Paraphrase , ” a paraphrase of some parts of the Bible story . This poem arose out of the ...
... poem . Thus we are almost tempted to accept a theory which makes that cliff , the highest on our eastern coast , the ... poem , known as Cædmon's “ Paraphrase , ” a paraphrase of some parts of the Bible story . This poem arose out of the ...
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... poems . In the Vercelli Book is Cynewulf's Elene , a poem of 2,648 lines , on the legend of St. Helen , or the Finding of the True Cross by the mother of Constantine . In the Exeter Book we have Cynewulf's legend of Juliana , martyr in ...
... poems . In the Vercelli Book is Cynewulf's Elene , a poem of 2,648 lines , on the legend of St. Helen , or the Finding of the True Cross by the mother of Constantine . In the Exeter Book we have Cynewulf's legend of Juliana , martyr in ...
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... poem on the myth of The Phoenix , as an allegory of the life of the Christian ; another of its poems is a fable of The Panther , applied to the resurrection of our Lord , and another is of The Whale , who attracts fishes by sweet odour ...
... poem on the myth of The Phoenix , as an allegory of the life of the Christian ; another of its poems is a fable of The Panther , applied to the resurrection of our Lord , and another is of The Whale , who attracts fishes by sweet odour ...
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... poem on The Falsehood of Men , a poem on The Fates of the Apostles , and two Addresses of the Soul to the Body , one corresponding to that in the Exeter Book . Such poems , in which the Soul debates with the Body as chief cause of sin ...
... poem on The Falsehood of Men , a poem on The Fates of the Apostles , and two Addresses of the Soul to the Body , one corresponding to that in the Exeter Book . Such poems , in which the Soul debates with the Body as chief cause of sin ...
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Página 549 - Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven ; All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye.
Página 478 - There are a sort of men, whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond; And do a wilful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit; As who should say, ' I am Sir Oracle, And, when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!
Página 547 - Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
Página 716 - 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 481 - He hath disgraced me, and hindered me half a million; laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies; and what's his reason? I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?
Página 435 - Tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide," supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you ; and, being an absolute Johannes Factotum, is, in his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in a country.
Página 435 - I am as sorry as if the original fault had been my fault, because myself have seen his demeanour no less civil than he excellent in the quality he professes: besides, divers of worship have reported his uprightness of dealing which argues his honesty, and his facetious grace in writing, that approves his art.
Página 516 - ... a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit, or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect, or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon, or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention, or a shop for profit and sale ; and not a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Página 482 - But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held ; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
Página 786 - Humour can prevail, When Airs, and Flights, and Screams, and Scolding fail. Beauties in vain their pretty Eyes may roll ; Charms strike the Sight, but Merit wins the Soul.