Outlines of English and American LiteratureGinn, 1917 - 557 pages |
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... tales of Malory , with the fairy stories of Grimm or Andersen , with the poetry of Shakespeare , with the novels of Scott or Dickens , in short , with some of the best books that the world has ever produced . We know , there- fore ...
... tales of Malory , with the fairy stories of Grimm or Andersen , with the poetry of Shakespeare , with the novels of Scott or Dickens , in short , with some of the best books that the world has ever produced . We know , there- fore ...
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... tale , well told . Beowulf , line 2017 ( a free rendering ) In its beginnings English literature is like a river ... tales of such folk - heroes are ancient riddles , charms , invocations to earth and sky : Hal wes thu , Folde , fira ...
... tale , well told . Beowulf , line 2017 ( a free rendering ) In its beginnings English literature is like a river ... tales of such folk - heroes are ancient riddles , charms , invocations to earth and sky : Hal wes thu , Folde , fira ...
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... tale at this point , the scop would recite that part of Beowulf which tells of the mon- ster Grendel . Again , he named Sigard the Volsung ( the Sieg- frid of the Niebelungenlied and of Wagner's opera ) , and this would recall the ...
... tale at this point , the scop would recite that part of Beowulf which tells of the mon- ster Grendel . Again , he named Sigard the Volsung ( the Sieg- frid of the Niebelungenlied and of Wagner's opera ) , and this would recall the ...
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... tales but in true history . " He adds that there were two Arthurs , one a Welsh war - chief ( not a king ) , and the other a myth or fairy creation . This , then , may be the truth of the matter , that a real Arthur , who made a deep ...
... tales but in true history . " He adds that there were two Arthurs , one a Welsh war - chief ( not a king ) , and the other a myth or fairy creation . This , then , may be the truth of the matter , that a real Arthur , who made a deep ...
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... tale of the Round Table , and another poet ( Walter Map , perhaps ) began a cycle of stories concerning Galahad and the quest of the Holy Grail.1 The origin of these Arthurian romances , which reappear so often in English poetry , is ...
... tale of the Round Table , and another poet ( Walter Map , perhaps ) began a cycle of stories concerning Galahad and the quest of the Holy Grail.1 The origin of these Arthurian romances , which reappear so often in English poetry , is ...
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Page 264 - And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill; But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand, And the sound of a voice that is still ! Break, break, break, At the foot of thy crags, O sea! But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me.
Page 122 - The isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices That, if I then had wak'd after long sleep, Will make me sleep again ; and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open and show riches Ready to drop upon me, that, when I wak'd, I cried to dream again.
Page 127 - Is this the region, this the soil, the clime," Said then the lost Archangel, " this the seat That we must change for Heaven? — this mournful gloom For that celestial light ? Be...
Page 170 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Page 409 - And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor: And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted — nevermore...
Page 57 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet...
Page 207 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel by divine command With rising tempests shakes a guilty land, Such as of late o'er pale Britannia past, Calm and serene he drives the furious blast ; And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm.
Page 138 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And though it in the center sit, Yet when the .other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must, Like th' other foot, obliquely run: Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end where I begun.
Page 207 - It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea: Listen!
Page 63 - And portance in my travel's history; Wherein of antres vast, and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, — such was the process; And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.