English LiteratureMacmillan, 1917 - 427 pages |
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... England as the center of the life of the people who speak English , it is possible to divide the literary picturing of their civilization and culture into the following periods : 600-1154 A.D. 1154-1500 1500-1613 The Anglo - Saxon The ...
... England as the center of the life of the people who speak English , it is possible to divide the literary picturing of their civilization and culture into the following periods : 600-1154 A.D. 1154-1500 1500-1613 The Anglo - Saxon The ...
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... England Characters of Virtues and Vices 1593 Herbert , George 1633 The Temple 1591 Herrick , Robert 1674 The Hesperides 1588 Hobbes , Thomas 1679 Leviathan 1632 Locke , John 1704 Essay on the Human Un- derstanding 1621 Marvell , Andrew ...
... England Characters of Virtues and Vices 1593 Herbert , George 1633 The Temple 1591 Herrick , Robert 1674 The Hesperides 1588 Hobbes , Thomas 1679 Leviathan 1632 Locke , John 1704 Essay on the Human Un- derstanding 1621 Marvell , Andrew ...
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... England 1802 Chambers , Robert 1871 Vestiges of Creation 1772 Coleridge , Samuel Tay- 1834 The Rime of the Ancient lor Mariner 1785 De Quincey , Thomas 1859 Joan of Arc Born Died Masterpiece 1767 Edgeworth , Maria 1849 Castle Rackrent ...
... England 1802 Chambers , Robert 1871 Vestiges of Creation 1772 Coleridge , Samuel Tay- 1834 The Rime of the Ancient lor Mariner 1785 De Quincey , Thomas 1859 Joan of Arc Born Died Masterpiece 1767 Edgeworth , Maria 1849 Castle Rackrent ...
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... England from the Fall of Wolsey to the De- feat of the Armada Gaskell , Mrs. Elizabeth 1865 Cranford Gilbert , William S. 1911 Green , John Richard 1883 Pygmalion and Galatea History of the English People Died Master piece Emerson ...
... England from the Fall of Wolsey to the De- feat of the Armada Gaskell , Mrs. Elizabeth 1865 Cranford Gilbert , William S. 1911 Green , John Richard 1883 Pygmalion and Galatea History of the English People Died Master piece Emerson ...
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... England ington 1828 Meredith , George 1909 The Egoist 1806 Mill , John Stuart 1873 System of Logic 1834 Morris , William 1896 The Earthly Paradise 1801 Newman , John Henry 1890 The Dream of Gerontius 1839 Pater , Walter 1894 Marius the ...
... England ington 1828 Meredith , George 1909 The Egoist 1806 Mill , John Stuart 1873 System of Logic 1834 Morris , William 1896 The Earthly Paradise 1801 Newman , John Henry 1890 The Dream of Gerontius 1839 Pater , Walter 1894 Marius the ...
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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 396 - I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.
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 212 - 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 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 212 - 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.
Page 196 - Thou hast left behind Powers that will work for thee; air, earth, and skies; There's not a breathing of the common wind That will forget thee; thou hast great allies; Thy friends are exultations, agonies, And love, and man's unconquerable mind.