Outline History of English and American LiteratureAmerican Book Company, 1900 - 552 páginas |
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... seem to antici- pate the future . It is only in a general and broad way that we can say that the spirit of an age is reflected in the writings of that age . The " spirit of the age " is some- times very complex and , even in a well ...
... seem to antici- pate the future . It is only in a general and broad way that we can say that the spirit of an age is reflected in the writings of that age . The " spirit of the age " is some- times very complex and , even in a well ...
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... seem crude , rugged , and devoid of melody . But we must remember that grace and fluency are not the only qualities of verse . Vigor is another one , and the proper one on which to superinduce the ornamental . Excess of vigor is far ...
... seem crude , rugged , and devoid of melody . But we must remember that grace and fluency are not the only qualities of verse . Vigor is another one , and the proper one on which to superinduce the ornamental . Excess of vigor is far ...
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... , " or destiny , which no man can avoid , but which every one must meet with firmness . The Anglo - Saxons were a race of fighters , and turbu- lence seems at first to be the distinguishing mark of 26 ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE.
... , " or destiny , which no man can avoid , but which every one must meet with firmness . The Anglo - Saxons were a race of fighters , and turbu- lence seems at first to be the distinguishing mark of 26 ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE.
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Charles F. Johnson. lence seems at first to be the distinguishing mark of their history . They were undoubtedly cruel to their enemies , but humanity and pity are virtues of later growth . The student must guard carefully against the ...
Charles F. Johnson. lence seems at first to be the distinguishing mark of their history . They were undoubtedly cruel to their enemies , but humanity and pity are virtues of later growth . The student must guard carefully against the ...
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... seems to be presiding at the birth of the composite English - language . Robert of Gloucester . may Among the numerous writers of the period , poets , theo- logians , chroniclers , and romancers , -Robert of Gloucester be mentioned ...
... seems to be presiding at the birth of the composite English - language . Robert of Gloucester . may Among the numerous writers of the period , poets , theo- logians , chroniclers , and romancers , -Robert of Gloucester be mentioned ...
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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.