A Student's History of English LiteratureHoughton, Mifflin, 1902 - 483 páginas |
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... poem catalogues the wanderings of the gleeman . " Widsith unlocked his word - hoard ; and then spake He among men whose travel over earth Was farthest through the tribes and through the folks : Treasure to be remembered came to him ...
... poem catalogues the wanderings of the gleeman . " Widsith unlocked his word - hoard ; and then spake He among men whose travel over earth Was farthest through the tribes and through the folks : Treasure to be remembered came to him ...
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... poem , dating apparently from the same early period , presents the scop in a more melancholy mood . This is Deor's La ment , the composition of some singer who has felt more of the bitterness of life , having been superseded in the ...
... poem , dating apparently from the same early period , presents the scop in a more melancholy mood . This is Deor's La ment , the composition of some singer who has felt more of the bitterness of life , having been superseded in the ...
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... poem of Beowulf supplies many vivid picturings of early English life and manners ; the hero of the poem is really the idealization of the Anglo - Saxon himself . That there is an historical basis for the myth is hardly to be doubted ...
... poem of Beowulf supplies many vivid picturings of early English life and manners ; the hero of the poem is really the idealization of the Anglo - Saxon himself . That there is an historical basis for the myth is hardly to be doubted ...
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... poem , greatly damaged by fire and age , now preserved in the British Museum . There are 3180 lines in the poem , and it is worth while to examine its form somewhat in detail . The epic be- gins thus : Form . " Hwæt ! we Gar - Dena peod ...
... poem , greatly damaged by fire and age , now preserved in the British Museum . There are 3180 lines in the poem , and it is worth while to examine its form somewhat in detail . The epic be- gins thus : Form . " Hwæt ! we Gar - Dena peod ...
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... poetic fire so mysteriously kindled , paraphrased the accounts of Genesis and Exodus , together with many other ... poets known to us by name is Cynewulf , Cynewulf , a writer of great influence and a poet of gen- born about uine power ...
... poetic fire so mysteriously kindled , paraphrased the accounts of Genesis and Exodus , together with many other ... poets known to us by name is Cynewulf , Cynewulf , a writer of great influence and a poet of gen- born about uine power ...
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Addison Alfred Anglo-Saxon appeared Bacon beauty became Ben Jonson Beowulf Byron Cædmon Canterbury Tales career Carlyle century character Charles Charles Lamb Chaucer Church classic Coleridge comedies composition criticism Cynewulf death drama Dryden edited England epic essays euphuism expression fame famous fiction Francis Bacon friends genius Geoffrey Chaucer Ginn Hamlet Henry hero honor humor influence interest Ivanhoe John John Bunyan John Dryden John Ruskin Johnson Julius Cæsar King Lamb later Latin lines lish literary lived London Lord Macaulay ment Milton moral narrative nature novel novelist Paracelsus passages passion period plays poem poet poet's poetry Pope Pope's prose published Puritan Quincey romance Ruskin satire Saxon scene Scott Shakespeare Shelley song spirit stanza story student style SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY Swift Tatler Tennyson Thomas tion translation verse volume Widsith William Shakespeare Wordsworth writer wrote
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Página 313 - Guid faith he mauna fa' that. For a' that, and a' that, Their dignities, and a' that ; The pith o' sense, and pride o' worth, Are higher rank than a that. Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that ; That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, and a' that. For a
Página 204 - Her finger was so small, the ring, Would not stay on, which they did bring, It was too wide a peck: And to say truth (for out it must) It looked like the great collar (just) About our young colt's neck. Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they fear'd the light: But O she dances such a way!
Página 287 - Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help...
Página 121 - Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts ; Into a thousand parts divide one man, And make imaginary puissance ; Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i...
Página 452 - FLOWER in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower — but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is.
Página 120 - On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object; can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt?
Página 197 - Alas ! what boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely, slighted, shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse ? Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair...
Página 145 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
Página 456 - Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight.
Página 205 - Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more.