Outline History of English and American LiteratureAmerican Book Company, 1900 - 552 páginas |
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... Shakespeare is properly said to be not " of an age , but for all time . " It might be concluded from this that some historical study is necessary only to the comprehension of the smaller men who are molded by their time and embody the ...
... Shakespeare is properly said to be not " of an age , but for all time . " It might be concluded from this that some historical study is necessary only to the comprehension of the smaller men who are molded by their time and embody the ...
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... Shakespeare's " Midsummer Night's Dream " could not have appeared in a nation of pure Germanic blood , nor Carlyle's " Sartor Resartus " in a nation of pure Celtic blood . But both are great monu- ments of English literature . There is ...
... Shakespeare's " Midsummer Night's Dream " could not have appeared in a nation of pure Germanic blood , nor Carlyle's " Sartor Resartus " in a nation of pure Celtic blood . But both are great monu- ments of English literature . There is ...
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... Shakespeare's preeminence depends on the fact that the qualities of the two races were organically united in his mind . Introduc- When the German tribes invaded England , they were not Christianized . Christianity had been established ...
... Shakespeare's preeminence depends on the fact that the qualities of the two races were organically united in his mind . Introduc- When the German tribes invaded England , they were not Christianized . Christianity had been established ...
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... Shakespeare's " Troilus and Cres- sida " may be said to have inherited a portion of their spirit and method . No matter whether the characters are Greeks , or Persians , or Saracens , or Romans , they are rep- resented as medieval ...
... Shakespeare's " Troilus and Cres- sida " may be said to have inherited a portion of their spirit and method . No matter whether the characters are Greeks , or Persians , or Saracens , or Romans , they are rep- resented as medieval ...
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... express the life of his age with a vivacity and bril- liancy unequaled till we reach the days of Shakespeare . The century following Chaucer's death in 1400 is sometimes characterized 44 CHAPTER III THE FIRST ENGLISH PERIOD (1360 тo 1525)
... express the life of his age with a vivacity and bril- liancy unequaled till we reach the days of Shakespeare . The century following Chaucer's death in 1400 is sometimes characterized 44 CHAPTER III THE FIRST ENGLISH PERIOD (1360 тo 1525)
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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.