English LiteratureAllyn and Bacon, 1918 - 431 pages |
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... interest in itself ; but it is valuable for its side - light on some char- acters in Beowulf , and for the portrayal of the " scōp , " or professional poet , an important member of every nobleman's retinue . His business it was to ...
... interest in itself ; but it is valuable for its side - light on some char- acters in Beowulf , and for the portrayal of the " scōp , " or professional poet , an important member of every nobleman's retinue . His business it was to ...
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... interest for the reader . Even in translation . we may see the poet's fondness for striking figures of speech , especially metaphors , very frequently in the form of com- pound words . For example , the body is called the " bone- house ...
... interest for the reader . Even in translation . we may see the poet's fondness for striking figures of speech , especially metaphors , very frequently in the form of com- pound words . For example , the body is called the " bone- house ...
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... interest in education and religion , found- ing new religious houses and attracting scholars to them , translating many Latin works of interest and profit to Eng- lishmen . Among the works put into English by Alfred himself or by men ...
... interest in education and religion , found- ing new religious houses and attracting scholars to them , translating many Latin works of interest and profit to Eng- lishmen . Among the works put into English by Alfred himself or by men ...
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... interest for us to - day is very slight . It is merely , says Andrew Lang , " that they upheld a standard of learn- ing and of godly living , in evil times of fire and sword , and that English prose became a rather better literary ...
... interest for us to - day is very slight . It is merely , says Andrew Lang , " that they upheld a standard of learn- ing and of godly living , in evil times of fire and sword , and that English prose became a rather better literary ...
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... interest to modern as well as mediæval readers is a curious one known as the Travels of Sir John Mandeville . This book " had been a household work in eleven languages and for five centuries before it was ascer- tained that Sir John ...
... interest to modern as well as mediæval readers is a curious one known as the Travels of Sir John Mandeville . This book " had been a household work in eleven languages and for five centuries before it was ascer- tained that Sir John ...
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Page 113 - Desiring this man's art and that man's scope. With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising. Haply I think on thee...
Page 271 - IN Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round : And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
Page 238 - The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...
Page 272 - 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...
Page 291 - Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone: Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal — yet, do not grieve ; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!
Page 446 - So we were left galloping, Joris and I, Past Looz and past Tongres, no cloud in the sky; The broad sun above laughed a pitiless laugh, 'Neath our feet broke the brittle bright stubble like chaff; Till over by Dalhem a dome-spire sprang white, And
Page 361 - 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 449 - twas all one ! My favor at her breast, The dropping of the daylight in the West, The bough of cherries some officious fool Broke in the orchard for her, the white mule She rode with round the terrace — all and each Would draw from her alike the approving speech, 30 Or blush, at least.
Page 278 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war; And the deep thunder peal on peal afar; And near, the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier ere the morning star; While thronged the citizens with terror dumb, Or whispering, with white lips - 'The foe! they come! they come!' And wild and high the 'Cameron's gathering
Page 323 - ... whose mind is stored with a knowledge of the great and fundamental truths of Nature and of the laws of her operations; one who, no stunted ascetic, is full of life and fire, but whose passions are trained to come to heel by a vigorous will, the servant of a tender conscience; who has learned to love all beauty, whether of Nature or of art, to hate all vileness, and to respect others as himself.