A History of English Literature: In a Series of Biographical SketchesNelson, 1871 - 549 oldal |
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... steps which were taken , as the world grew from morning into prime , towards the produc- tion of that grand triumph of human thought and skill we call a modern book . 16 REMAINS OF CELTIC LITERATURE . Origin of the Ballad.
... steps which were taken , as the world grew from morning into prime , towards the produc- tion of that grand triumph of human thought and skill we call a modern book . 16 REMAINS OF CELTIC LITERATURE . Origin of the Ballad.
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... lated these graphic pictures of old Celtic life , have never been produced . A narrative in verse , called the Albanic Duan , is thought to have been composed in the eleventh century . ( 15 ) LATIN AUTHORS AMONG THE CELTS . 17 In Wales ,
... lated these graphic pictures of old Celtic life , have never been produced . A narrative in verse , called the Albanic Duan , is thought to have been composed in the eleventh century . ( 15 ) LATIN AUTHORS AMONG THE CELTS . 17 In Wales ,
17. oldal
... thought to have been a monk of Bangor , is said also to have written a History of the Britons . The Latin poems of St. Columbanus , an Irish missionary to the Gauls , are spoken of by Moore as " shining out in this twilight period of ...
... thought to have been a monk of Bangor , is said also to have written a History of the Britons . The Latin poems of St. Columbanus , an Irish missionary to the Gauls , are spoken of by Moore as " shining out in this twilight period of ...
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... thought to be much older than the manuscript of it which we possess . Its hero , BEOWULF , is a Danish soldier , who , passing through many dangers by land and sea , slays a monster , Grendel , but is himself slain in an attack upon a ...
... thought to be much older than the manuscript of it which we possess . Its hero , BEOWULF , is a Danish soldier , who , passing through many dangers by land and sea , slays a monster , Grendel , but is himself slain in an attack upon a ...
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... thought than Anglo - Saxon children commonly enjoyed . When he had reached his twelfth year , he won as a prize a beautiful book of Saxon poetry , which his mother had promised to that one of her sons who should first commit its ...
... thought than Anglo - Saxon children commonly enjoyed . When he had reached his twelfth year , he won as a prize a beautiful book of Saxon poetry , which his mother had promised to that one of her sons who should first commit its ...
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210. 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, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on...
211. oldal - Hail, horrors ! hail, Infernal world ! and thou, profoundest Hell, Receive thy new possessor ! one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
212. 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.
379. 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.
243. oldal - That every man with him was God or devil. In squandering wealth was his peculiar art; Nothing went unrewarded but desert. Beggared by fools, whom still he found too late ; He had his jest, and they had his estate.
190. oldal - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds : but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant — descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the...
243. oldal - He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
227. oldal - I' th' middle of his speech, or cough, H' had hard words ready to show why, And tell what rules he did it by ; Else, when with greatest art he spoke, You'd think he talked like other folk.
447. oldal - Who gave you your invulnerable life, Your strength, your speed, your fury, and your joy, Unceasing thunder and eternal foam ? And who commanded — and the silence came — Here let the billows stiffen, and have rest...
149. oldal - Yet his real power is not shown in the splendour of particular passages, but by the progress of his fable and the tenor of his dialogue ; and he that tries to recommend him by select quotations will succeed like the pedant in Hierocles, who, when he offered his house to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen.