Manual of English LiteratureL. Cehmigke (R. Appelius), 1911 - 208 pages |
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... passes and already the Danes begin to despair of seeing their deliverer return to the land of the living , when suddenly the water turns blood - red and Beowulf reappears carrying in each hand a monstrous head . And now he steps ashore ...
... passes and already the Danes begin to despair of seeing their deliverer return to the land of the living , when suddenly the water turns blood - red and Beowulf reappears carrying in each hand a monstrous head . And now he steps ashore ...
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... passes before us and becomes a living reality . To attain this object the poet devises an ingenious frame for his stories : a pilgrimage to the shrine of the national saint of England Thomas à Becket , Archbishop of Canterbury . And ...
... passes before us and becomes a living reality . To attain this object the poet devises an ingenious frame for his stories : a pilgrimage to the shrine of the national saint of England Thomas à Becket , Archbishop of Canterbury . And ...
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... pass through the fairy scene like flitting spirits of shining radiance or darkest gloom , uncertain of outline , but leaving on the imagination a strong impression of alternating light and shade . Such poetry requires of the reader a ...
... pass through the fairy scene like flitting spirits of shining radiance or darkest gloom , uncertain of outline , but leaving on the imagination a strong impression of alternating light and shade . Such poetry requires of the reader a ...
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... pass before a poet could venture to use this metre on the public stage ( 1590 Marlowe in his Tamburlaine ) . During the middle of the century Comedy too developed itself by breaking the chains of the Moralities . John Heywood , a ...
... pass before a poet could venture to use this metre on the public stage ( 1590 Marlowe in his Tamburlaine ) . During the middle of the century Comedy too developed itself by breaking the chains of the Moralities . John Heywood , a ...
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... passing in review that terrible English thirty years ' war of the Roses , the fearful struggle for power between the rival houses of York and Lancaster surrounded by a proud and quarrelsome nobility . What types of Kings , gentle ...
... passing in review that terrible English thirty years ' war of the Roses , the fearful struggle for power between the rival houses of York and Lancaster surrounded by a proud and quarrelsome nobility . What types of Kings , gentle ...
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Page 22 - Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. 3 Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
Page 53 - QUEEN and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light, Goddess excellently bright. Earth, let not thy envious shade Dare itself to interpose; Cynthia's shining orb was made Heaven to clear when day did close: Bless us then with wished sight, Goddess excellently bright.
Page 74 - Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages curst: For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay.
Page 179 - O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence, live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge man's search To vaster issues.
Page 82 - Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurl'd: The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
Page 89 - And every sense, and every heart is joy; Then comes thy glory in the Summer months, With light and heat refulgent. Then thy sun Shoots full perfection through the swelling year...
Page 113 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free, They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
Page 125 - BREATHES there the man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go mark him well...
Page 195 - WHEN lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd, And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night, I mourn'd, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.
Page 84 - He gave the little wealth he had, To build a house for fools and mad: And showed by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much: That kingdom he hath left his debtor, I wish it soon may have a better.