A History of English Literature: In a Series of Biographical SketchesT. Nelson and Sons, 1868 - 529 oldal |
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... story had perished when the fathers of the tribe were gathered to their rest . In some nations the earliest records were knotted cords . Strings of different colours , with knots of various sizes and variously arranged , contained the ...
... story had perished when the fathers of the tribe were gathered to their rest . In some nations the earliest records were knotted cords . Strings of different colours , with knots of various sizes and variously arranged , contained the ...
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... story of their deeds to their children , was couched in rough metre , in order that the ring of the lines might help the memory to retain the tale . Oldest of all British literature , or , indeed , of all literature in modern Europe ...
... story of their deeds to their children , was couched in rough metre , in order that the ring of the lines might help the memory to retain the tale . Oldest of all British literature , or , indeed , of all literature in modern Europe ...
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... story of his own day , it went , without his name to mark it , into the common stock of his craft . Hence the Anglo - Saxon poetry is anonymous . The structure of the verse in which these gleemen sang is thus described by Wright ...
... story of his own day , it went , without his name to mark it , into the common stock of his craft . Hence the Anglo - Saxon poetry is anonymous . The structure of the verse in which these gleemen sang is thus described by Wright ...
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... story of his inspiration . It was the custom in those days for each to sing in turn , as the harp was pushed round the hall at supper . This Caedmon could never do ; and when he saw his turn coming , he used to slip out of the room ...
... story of his inspiration . It was the custom in those days for each to sing in turn , as the harp was pushed round the hall at supper . This Caedmon could never do ; and when he saw his turn coming , he used to slip out of the room ...
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... story of the Creation and the Fall , the history of Daniel , with many passages in the life and death of our Saviour . From the similarity of subject , a likeness has been traced between him and Milton , upon which a charge of ...
... story of the Creation and the Fall , the history of Daniel , with many passages in the life and death of our Saviour . From the similarity of subject , a likeness has been traced between him and Milton , upon which a charge of ...
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348. oldal - Seven years, my Lord, have now past, since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it, at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour.
390. oldal - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests ; in all time, Calm or convulsed, in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime, Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of Eternity — the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made ; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone...
207. oldal - The other Shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb ; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either — black it stood as Night, 670 Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart : what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
348. oldal - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help ? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary. and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
338. oldal - In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs — and God has given my share — I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose...
376. oldal - 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.
361. oldal - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
209. oldal - No sooner had the Almighty ceased but — all The multitude of Angels, with a shout Loud as from numbers without number, sweet As from blest voices, uttering joy — Heaven rung With jubilee, and loud hosannas filled The eternal regions.
209. oldal - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence : Here we may reign secure, and, in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell : Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven...
390. oldal - Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts: not so thou; Unchangeable save to thy wild waves