A History of English LiteratureMacmillan, 1901 - 534 oldal |
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... touch The Holy God Hest , command . who , by God's hest , The Lord sent the well - springs broke the ocean - streams burst forth ; over the shores . He that ruled the waters , with the wan wave . the Creator avenged ; on the fated folk ...
... touch The Holy God Hest , command . who , by God's hest , The Lord sent the well - springs broke the ocean - streams burst forth ; over the shores . He that ruled the waters , with the wan wave . the Creator avenged ; on the fated folk ...
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... touch the Language , but to Influence English Thought . In order to fully comprehend the influence of the Conquest , we must now trace the course of literature as it expressed itself in England between the years 1100 and 1400. The first ...
... touch the Language , but to Influence English Thought . In order to fully comprehend the influence of the Conquest , we must now trace the course of literature as it expressed itself in England between the years 1100 and 1400. The first ...
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... touch the language in any so effectual a way as the later Middle English literature , yet they were valuable because they widened the minds and cultivated the thoughts of those who could under- stand them . IV . ENGLISH AFTER THE NORMAN ...
... touch the language in any so effectual a way as the later Middle English literature , yet they were valuable because they widened the minds and cultivated the thoughts of those who could under- stand them . IV . ENGLISH AFTER THE NORMAN ...
49. oldal
... touching lines are those in which the widower is made to speak of the pure happiness of his marriage : " For truly that sweet wight ( the Duchess ) , When I had wrong and she the right , Would always so faithfully Forgive me , and so ...
... touching lines are those in which the widower is made to speak of the pure happiness of his marriage : " For truly that sweet wight ( the Duchess ) , When I had wrong and she the right , Would always so faithfully Forgive me , and so ...
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... touch of downright malice . The list of Chaucer's pilgrims has been so often given that to repeat it seems almost unnecessary . There is , however , one im- portant feature to which attention cannot be too often directed . The first ...
... touch of downright malice . The list of Chaucer's pilgrims has been so often given that to repeat it seems almost unnecessary . There is , however , one im- portant feature to which attention cannot be too often directed . The first ...
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424. oldal - 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, That sunny dome ! those caves of ice I And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry,
301. oldal - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike...
356. oldal - Winter, yelling through the troublous air, Affrights thy shrinking train, And rudely rends thy robes, — So long, regardful of thy quiet rule, Shall Fancy, Friendship, Science, smiling Peace, Thy gentlest influence own, And love thy favourite name.
218. oldal - Go, lovely rose ! Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spied. That hadst thou sprung In deserts where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired : Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired. Then die ! that she The common fate of all things rare May read in thee, — How...
421. oldal - Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not. — Great God! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.
404. oldal - Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: "Pipe a song about a Lamb!' So I piped with merry cheer. 'Piper, pipe that song again;
257. oldal - In the first rank of these did Zimri stand ;* A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long...
199. oldal - Shake hands for ever, cancel all our vows, And when we meet at any time again, Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain.
233. oldal - Purification in the old law did save, And such, as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind. Her face was...
187. oldal - A lily of a day Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures life may perfect be.