Outline History of English and American LiteratureAmerican Book Company, 1900 - 552 páginas |
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... century of the Christian era the island of Britain was a province of the Roman Empire . The inhab- itants , " Brythons " and Gaels ( or Goils ) , branches of the Historical Sketch . Celtic stock with some admixture of the blood of still ...
... century of the Christian era the island of Britain was a province of the Roman Empire . The inhab- itants , " Brythons " and Gaels ( or Goils ) , branches of the Historical Sketch . Celtic stock with some admixture of the blood of still ...
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... century were from another Ger- manic race not radically different in type ( mental . or physical ) from the Anglo - Saxons . The English people may therefore properly be regarded as descended from Germanic and Celtic ancestors . There ...
... century were from another Ger- manic race not radically different in type ( mental . or physical ) from the Anglo - Saxons . The English people may therefore properly be regarded as descended from Germanic and Celtic ancestors . There ...
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... century , but translated by King Alfred into Anglo - Saxon , early English history is for the most part based . The oldest document in Anglo - Saxon is the " Song of Widsith the Far - Traveler . " It probably received its present form ...
... century , but translated by King Alfred into Anglo - Saxon , early English history is for the most part based . The oldest document in Anglo - Saxon is the " Song of Widsith the Far - Traveler . " It probably received its present form ...
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... century . The poem was forgot- ten for eight or nine hundred years , and would have been irrevocably lost but for the preservation of a single manu- script not published till early in the nineteenth century . The story is briefly as ...
... century . The poem was forgot- ten for eight or nine hundred years , and would have been irrevocably lost but for the preservation of a single manu- script not published till early in the nineteenth century . The story is briefly as ...
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... century . The Great Charter , which affirmed the rights of the English people and limited the power of the throne in imposing taxes , was wrung from him in 1215. By this , and still more by the Barons ' wars , the nobles and the people ...
... century . The Great Charter , which affirmed the rights of the English people and limited the power of the throne in imposing taxes , was wrung from him in 1215. By this , and still more by the Barons ' wars , the nobles and the people ...
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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.