A History of English LiteratureMacmillan, 1901 - 534 pages |
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... style greatly increases as time goes on ; for , by the early years of the eleventh century , the writers had become well accustomed to dealing with histori- cal matter in their own tongue . Several manuscript versions of the Chronicle ...
... style greatly increases as time goes on ; for , by the early years of the eleventh century , the writers had become well accustomed to dealing with histori- cal matter in their own tongue . Several manuscript versions of the Chronicle ...
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... style : A " These are the twelve articles of the Christian belief , that each man shall believe steadfastly , for otherwise he cannot be saved , though he hath wit and skill . And of them there are twelve 38 HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE .
... style : A " These are the twelve articles of the Christian belief , that each man shall believe steadfastly , for otherwise he cannot be saved , though he hath wit and skill . And of them there are twelve 38 HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE .
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... style , is that which was told by the Nun's Priest , a merry , laughter - provoking country story , full of delightful humour , and perfectly innocent and sweet . He describes a rustic household , a cottage rather than a farm , kept by ...
... style , is that which was told by the Nun's Priest , a merry , laughter - provoking country story , full of delightful humour , and perfectly innocent and sweet . He describes a rustic household , a cottage rather than a farm , kept by ...
Page 88
... style is clear , flexible , and lively . The inter- mixture of the wildest tales , with shrewd accounts of what the compiler , or some other person , actually saw , give the volume a fascination which is all its own . It has stories of ...
... style is clear , flexible , and lively . The inter- mixture of the wildest tales , with shrewd accounts of what the compiler , or some other person , actually saw , give the volume a fascination which is all its own . It has stories of ...
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... style is straight forward and to the point , not unworthy of the great subject he attempted . 22. The Poets of the Fifteenth Century . Apart from THE PERIOD FROM CHAUCER TO SPENSER . 89 thinketh me! that also I was not werthi. ...
... style is straight forward and to the point , not unworthy of the great subject he attempted . 22. The Poets of the Fifteenth Century . Apart from THE PERIOD FROM CHAUCER TO SPENSER . 89 thinketh me! that also I was not werthi. ...
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Page 424 - Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome ! those caves of ice I And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry,
Page 301 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike...
Page 356 - Winter, yelling through the troublous air, Affrights thy shrinking train, And rudely rends thy robes, — So long, regardful of thy quiet rule, Shall Fancy, Friendship, Science, smiling Peace, Thy gentlest influence own, And love thy favourite name.
Page 218 - Go, lovely rose ! Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spied. That hadst thou sprung In deserts where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired : Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired. Then die ! that she The common fate of all things rare May read in thee, — How...
Page 421 - Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not. — Great God! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.
Page 404 - Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: "Pipe a song about a Lamb!' So I piped with merry cheer. 'Piper, pipe that song again;
Page 257 - In the first rank of these did Zimri stand ;* A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long...
Page 199 - Shake hands for ever, cancel all our vows, And when we meet at any time again, Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain.
Page 233 - Purification in the old law did save, And such, as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind. Her face was...
Page 187 - A lily of a day Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures life may perfect be.