English LiteratureMacmillan, 1917 - 427 pages |
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... poet , whom Edmund Spenser called the " well of English undefiled , " and of whom Walter Savage Landor wrote that he " was worth a dozen Spensers . " During the period of the RENAISSANCE we come upon the full- orbed choir consisting of ...
... poet , whom Edmund Spenser called the " well of English undefiled , " and of whom Walter Savage Landor wrote that he " was worth a dozen Spensers . " During the period of the RENAISSANCE we come upon the full- orbed choir consisting of ...
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... poet who wrote Sir Gawain ; there are a few histories , sermons , and religious handbooks ; there are the more important religious writings of William Langland and of John Wycliffe ; and there are the works of Gower . Ballads . - A few ...
... poet who wrote Sir Gawain ; there are a few histories , sermons , and religious handbooks ; there are the more important religious writings of William Langland and of John Wycliffe ; and there are the works of Gower . Ballads . - A few ...
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... poets whose ideas are primarily those of all time . His relation to the people . One of his biographers has written and many others have written similar things that " Chaucer was not a poet of the people . " This is said because Chaucer ...
... poets whose ideas are primarily those of all time . His relation to the people . One of his biographers has written and many others have written similar things that " Chaucer was not a poet of the people . " This is said because Chaucer ...
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... poet has nothing to consider but the effective and artistic treatment of his subject ; if he has as high a soul as Sophocles , his influence will always be moral , let him do what he will . " The facts are that Chaucer saw much of the ...
... poet has nothing to consider but the effective and artistic treatment of his subject ; if he has as high a soul as Sophocles , his influence will always be moral , let him do what he will . " The facts are that Chaucer saw much of the ...
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... poet was his translation of the Romance of the Rose , a French poem of the greatest days of the medieval period , and originally written during the wonderful century preceding Chaucer , probably at least a hundred years before his day ...
... poet was his translation of the Romance of the Rose , a French poem of the greatest days of the medieval period , and originally written during the wonderful century preceding Chaucer , probably at least a hundred years before his day ...
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Page 323 - All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good, shall exist ; Not its semblance, but itself ; no beauty, nor good, nor power • Whose voice has gone forth, but each survives for the melodist When eternity affirms the conception of an hour.
Page 56 - Homer ruled as his demesne; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Page 55 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust!
Page 105 - Fear no more the heat o' the sun Nor the furious winter's rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages; Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust. Fear no more the frown o...
Page 214 - He is made one with Nature: there is heard His voice in all her music, from the moan Of thunder to the song of night's sweet bird; He is a presence to be felt and known In darkness and in light, from herb and stone, "Spreading itself where'er that Power may move Which has withdrawn his being to its own; Wliich wields the world with never-wearied love, Sustains it from beneath, and kindles it above.
Page 146 - How sleep the Brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there!
Page 266 - REQUIEM UNDER the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill.
Page 197 - Roused though it be full often to a mood Which spurns the check of salutary bands,* That this most famous Stream in bogs and sands Should perish ; and to evil and to good Be lost for ever. In our halls is hung Armoury of the invincible Knights of old : We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakspeare spake ; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held.
Page 308 - It is the land that freemen till, That sober-suited Freedom chose, The land, where girt with friends or foes A man may speak the thing he will ; A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where Freedom slowly broadens down From precedent to precedent...
Page 214 - The brightness it may veil. When lofty thought Lifts a young heart above its mortal lair, And love and life contend in it, for what Shall be its earthly doom, the dead live there, And move like winds of light on dark and stormy air.