A Manual of English Literature, Historical and Critical: With an Appendix on English MetresLongmans&Company, 1873 - 567 páginas |
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... influence or the durability , of the religious system which softened the manners and the hearts of Ethelbert and Edwin . Besides the East and West Goths , the Burgundians , and many other Teutonic races , professed Christianity in the ...
... influence or the durability , of the religious system which softened the manners and the hearts of Ethelbert and Edwin . Besides the East and West Goths , the Burgundians , and many other Teutonic races , professed Christianity in the ...
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... influence of such a man as Beda should have been enough to inaugurate a long era of literary energy ; yet William of Malmesbury assures us that , with the exception of the brief Saxon annals and the barbarous epitome of Ethel- werd , he ...
... influence of such a man as Beda should have been enough to inaugurate a long era of literary energy ; yet William of Malmesbury assures us that , with the exception of the brief Saxon annals and the barbarous epitome of Ethel- werd , he ...
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... influenced by the writings of the great Arabian thinkers , it is difficult to ascertain . Avicenna , the physician and philosopher , died in 1037 ; therefore in point of time , his expositions of the Aristotelian philosophy might have ...
... influenced by the writings of the great Arabian thinkers , it is difficult to ascertain . Avicenna , the physician and philosopher , died in 1037 ; therefore in point of time , his expositions of the Aristotelian philosophy might have ...
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... influence as a thinker was mainly of a negative sort . the contrary , this last , and not least eloquent , of the Fathers , scarcely ever employed his penetrating and ver- satile genius except for some end of practical edification ...
... influence as a thinker was mainly of a negative sort . the contrary , this last , and not least eloquent , of the Fathers , scarcely ever employed his penetrating and ver- satile genius except for some end of practical edification ...
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... influences , were much resorted to by the laity in preference to the temporal or common law courts . They were consequently the object ' See , however , Hallam's Literature of Europe , vol . i . p . 62 . of keen ill - will among the ...
... influences , were much resorted to by the laity in preference to the temporal or common law courts . They were consequently the object ' See , however , Hallam's Literature of Europe , vol . i . p . 62 . of keen ill - will among the ...
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Página 482 - I am the daughter of earth and water, And the nursling of the sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores ; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain when, with never a stain, The pavilion of heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams, Build up the blue dome of air, I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again.
Página 511 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet...
Página 253 - A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high, He sought the storms ; but for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
Página 357 - Heaven lies about us in our infancy. Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy; But he beholds the light and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy. The youth who daily farther from the East Must travel, still is Nature's priest, And, by the vision splendid, Is on his way attended. At length the man perceives it die away And fade into the light of common day.
Página 469 - GATHER ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles to-day, To-morrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he's a-getting; The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting. That age is best, which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer; But being spent, the worse, and worst Times still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time, And while ye may, go marry: For having lost but once your prime, You may...
Página 476 - Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumour lies, But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes And perfect witness of all-judging Jove; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed.
Página 211 - Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Página 387 - Two of far nobler shape erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad In naked majesty seemed lords of all, And worthy seemed, for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure, Severe, but in true filial freedom...
Página 454 - Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Página 444 - A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high, He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide; Else, why should he, with wealth and honor blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest?