Outline History of English and American LiteratureAmerican Book Company, 1900 - 552 páginas |
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... died just as he had finished a transla- tion of Saint John's Gospel into Anglo - Saxon . This is lost . His pupil , Saint Cuthbert , tells the story of his death , which though printed in every history will bear another repetition ...
... died just as he had finished a transla- tion of Saint John's Gospel into Anglo - Saxon . This is lost . His pupil , Saint Cuthbert , tells the story of his death , which though printed in every history will bear another repetition ...
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... dying man . ' It is finished now , ' said the little scribe at last . You speak truth , ' said the master , ' all is finished now . ' Placed upon the pavement , his head supported in his scholar's arms , his face turned to the spot ...
... dying man . ' It is finished now , ' said the little scribe at last . You speak truth , ' said the master , ' all is finished now . ' Placed upon the pavement , his head supported in his scholar's arms , his face turned to the spot ...
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... died , and in her memory Chaucer wrote the " Book of the Duchesse . " Probably through the influence of John of Gaunt , or of the Duke of Clarence , Chaucer received several government appointments and a pension . He was made one of the ...
... died , and in her memory Chaucer wrote the " Book of the Duchesse . " Probably through the influence of John of Gaunt , or of the Duke of Clarence , Chaucer received several government appointments and a pension . He was made one of the ...
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... died on the last day of the year 1384 . John Wycklif , 1324 ( ? ) - 1384 . He was educated at Balliol College , Oxford , and his life was principally spent at the university or at Fillingham in Lincolnshire , a college living 1 Came ...
... died on the last day of the year 1384 . John Wycklif , 1324 ( ? ) - 1384 . He was educated at Balliol College , Oxford , and his life was principally spent at the university or at Fillingham in Lincolnshire , a college living 1 Came ...
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... , and in the same year he was seized with paralysis while hearing mass at Lutter- worth , and died two years later . Forty - one years later his bones were taken from his grave by the Roman THE FIRST ENGLISH PERIOD ( 1360 TO 1525 ) 63.
... , and in the same year he was seized with paralysis while hearing mass at Lutter- worth , and died two years later . Forty - one years later his bones were taken from his grave by the Roman THE FIRST ENGLISH PERIOD ( 1360 TO 1525 ) 63.
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Addison admirable American Anglo-Saxon artistic ballad beauty became Ben Jonson Beowulf blank verse born Byron Cædmon called character Charles Charles Lamb Chaucer Church Coleridge College comedy death died drama early eighteenth century Elizabethan England English literature essays expression Faerie Queene father French friends genius hath heart Henry Henry VIII heroic couplet History Hudibras human humor imagination interest John John Milton JOHNSON'S LIT king language Latin Layamon literary living London Lord lyrical Milton mind modern nation nature never night novel period plays poems poet poetic poetry political Pope printed production prose published Puritan qualities Queen rhyme romance satire says sense Shakespeare Shelley Sir Bedivere society song sonnets soul Spenser spirit story style sweet Tamburlaine thee thou thought tion translated Trinity College true verse volume William Shakespeare Wordsworth writer written wrote young
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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.