Outlines of English Literature: With ReadingsGinn, 1925 - 441 pages |
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... thing in the world , and that the only valuable or interesting feature of any work of literature is its vitality . To introduce these writers not as dead worthies but as com- panionable men and women , and to present their living ...
... thing in the world , and that the only valuable or interesting feature of any work of literature is its vitality . To introduce these writers not as dead worthies but as com- panionable men and women , and to present their living ...
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... things new or old . Thus , he mentioned Hrothgar as one whom he had visited ; and if a hearer called for a tale at this point , the scop would recite that part of Beowulf which tells of the mon- ster Grendel . Again , he named Sigard ...
... things new or old . Thus , he mentioned Hrothgar as one whom he had visited ; and if a hearer called for a tale at this point , the scop would recite that part of Beowulf which tells of the mon- ster Grendel . Again , he named Sigard ...
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... things took he remembrance : of various lands where he had made conquests ; of sweet France and his kindred ; of Charle- magne , his feudal lord , who had nurtured him . He could not refrain from sighs and tears ; neither could he ...
... things took he remembrance : of various lands where he had made conquests ; of sweet France and his kindred ; of Charle- magne , his feudal lord , who had nurtured him . He could not refrain from sighs and tears ; neither could he ...
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... thing in common with these two poets , the early types of Puritan and Cavalier , was their attitude towards democracy . Langland preached the gospel of labor , far ... thing in fiction but the oldest thing in poetry THE AGE OF CHAUCER 37.
... thing in common with these two poets , the early types of Puritan and Cavalier , was their attitude towards democracy . Langland preached the gospel of labor , far ... thing in fiction but the oldest thing in poetry THE AGE OF CHAUCER 37.
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... things " which make Chaucer a constant delight to those who , by a very little practice , can understand him almost as easily as Shakespeare . Moreover he was a careful artist ; he knew the principles of poetry and of story - telling ...
... things " which make Chaucer a constant delight to those who , by a very little practice , can understand him almost as easily as Shakespeare . Moreover he was a careful artist ; he knew the principles of poetry and of story - telling ...
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Page 126 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn. Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Page 169 - 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 278 - The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.
Page 250 - O love, they die in yon rich sky, They faint on hill or field or river; Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, And answer, echoes, answer, dying, dying, dying.
Page 122 - Mortals, that would follow me, Love virtue; she alone is free. She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her.
Page 250 - Thou wilt not leave us in the -dust: Thou madest man, he knows not why, He thinks he was not made to die; And thou hast made him : thou art just. Thou seemest human and divine, The highest, holiest manhood, thou : Our wills are ours, we know not how; Our wills are ours, to make them thine.
Page 60 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O, no ! it is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of...
Page 171 - Keen as are the arrows Of that silver sphere, Whose intense lamp narrows In the white dawn clear, Until we hardly see, — we feel that it is there. All the earth and air With thy voice is loud, As, when night is bare, From one lonely cloud The moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflowed.
Page 253 - for Aix is in sight!" "How they'll greet us!" — and all in a moment his roan Rolled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone; And there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news which alone could save Aix from her fate, With his nostrils like pits full of blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-sockets
Page 75 - Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven ; All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye.