Outline History of English and American LiteratureAmerican Book Company, 1900 - 552 páginas |
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... learned nothing of the art of verse , the alliterative jingle so common among his fellows , " wherefore being sometimes at feasts , when all agreed for glee's sake to sing in turn , he no sooner saw the harp come towards him than he ...
... learned nothing of the art of verse , the alliterative jingle so common among his fellows , " wherefore being sometimes at feasts , when all agreed for glee's sake to sing in turn , he no sooner saw the harp come towards him than he ...
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... learned and witty Erasmus , the tone of whose criticism is quite modern , visited England in 1497. These dates , indeed , are in the last decade of the century , but Malory's " Morte Darthur " was printed in 1485. This , at least in its ...
... learned and witty Erasmus , the tone of whose criticism is quite modern , visited England in 1497. These dates , indeed , are in the last decade of the century , but Malory's " Morte Darthur " was printed in 1485. This , at least in its ...
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... learned that hearsay evidence must be received with great caution and usually dis- regarded . Hence solid and sober persons believed the tales about the works of the witches , and chroniclers whose reports of what came under their own ...
... learned that hearsay evidence must be received with great caution and usually dis- regarded . Hence solid and sober persons believed the tales about the works of the witches , and chroniclers whose reports of what came under their own ...
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... learned the printer's trade , and either printed his translation , or caused it to be printed , about 1474. This was the first book printed in English , and in 1475 he printed a book entitled " The Game and Playe of the Chesse . " In ...
... learned the printer's trade , and either printed his translation , or caused it to be printed , about 1474. This was the first book printed in English , and in 1475 he printed a book entitled " The Game and Playe of the Chesse . " In ...
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... learned man . Faustus is gone . Regard his hellish fall Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise Only to wonder at unlawful things Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits To practise more than heavenly power permits . From ...
... learned man . Faustus is gone . Regard his hellish fall Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise Only to wonder at unlawful things Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits To practise more than heavenly power permits . From ...
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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.