Outline History of English and American LiteratureAmerican Book Company, 1900 - 552 páginas |
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... England , even if his education is strictly scientific . I believe that specializing in any one period is more likely to prove fruitful and of benefit to the student if preceded by a general review of the development of thought and ...
... England , even if his education is strictly scientific . I believe that specializing in any one period is more likely to prove fruitful and of benefit to the student if preceded by a general review of the development of thought and ...
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... England . KEMBLE , J. M. The Saxons in England . of Alfred the Great . PAULI , R. Life FREEMAN , E. A. Old English History . HOSMER , J. K. Short History of Anglo - Saxon Freedom . 1890 . BARNES , W. Early England and the Saxon ...
... England . KEMBLE , J. M. The Saxons in England . of Alfred the Great . PAULI , R. Life FREEMAN , E. A. Old English History . HOSMER , J. K. Short History of Anglo - Saxon Freedom . 1890 . BARNES , W. Early England and the Saxon ...
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... England . This language , con- sisting of a number of dialects more or less markedly dif- ferent , gave rise , chiefly through literary influence , to the standard language called English , the medium of English literature . A northern ...
... England . This language , con- sisting of a number of dialects more or less markedly dif- ferent , gave rise , chiefly through literary influence , to the standard language called English , the medium of English literature . A northern ...
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... England the mixture has been especially fortunate . It has produced a distinct national type , and yet individuals of widely different mental and physical characteristics appear in about the proportions demanded for the healthy ...
... England the mixture has been especially fortunate . It has produced a distinct national type , and yet individuals of widely different mental and physical characteristics appear in about the proportions demanded for the healthy ...
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... England , and many French traders settled in the cities . The speech Change in of the ruling class was French ; the technical Language . language of the priests and scholars was Latin . But the great body of the people continued to use ...
... England , and many French traders settled in the cities . The speech Change in of the ruling class was French ; the technical Language . language of the priests and scholars was Latin . But the great body of the people continued to use ...
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Página 338 - What thou art we know not ; What is most like thee ? From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody.
Página 324 - It ceased ; yet still the sails made on A pleasant noise till noon, A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.
Página 469 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way...
Página 341 - He has outsoared the shadow of our night; Envy and calumny and hate and pain, And that unrest which men miscall delight, Can touch him not and torture not again...
Página 338 - Like a glow-worm golden In a dell of dew, Scattering unbeholden Its aerial hue Among the flowers and grass which screen it from the view...
Página 158 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Página 339 - What objects are the fountains Of thy happy strain ? What fields, or waves, or mountains ? What shapes of sky or plain ? What love of thine own kind ? what ignorance of pain ? With thy clear, keen joyance Languor cannot be : Shadow of annoyance Never came near thee : Thou lovest, but ne'er knew love's sad satiety.
Página 233 - Fear no more the frown o' the great; Thou art past the tyrant's stroke; Care no more to clothe and eat; To thee the reed is as the oak : The sceptre, learning, physic, must All follow this, and come to dust.
Página 341 - Peace, peace ! he is not dead, he doth not sleep — He hath awakened from the dream of life — 'Tis we, who, lost in stormy visions, keep With phantoms an unprofitable strife, And in mad trance strike with our spirit's knife Invulnerable nothings.
Página 213 - CYRIACK, this three years day these eyes, though clear, To outward view, of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot ; Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope ; but still bear up and steer Right onward.