The Story of English LiteratureCassell, Petter, Galpin & Company, 1882 - 519 páginas |
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... poetic gift than many of the people had , but they put the thoughts and feelings of the people into poetic words , and so became as it were the tongues of the people , speaking for them what each one could not utter for himself . These ...
... poetic gift than many of the people had , but they put the thoughts and feelings of the people into poetic words , and so became as it were the tongues of the people , speaking for them what each one could not utter for himself . These ...
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... poets of the time : Aneurin , Llywarch Hen , and Taliesin . Aneurin was also a warrior , and was himself present at the ... poem still remain , and nearly every one is a lament over a different Cymric chief who fell in this battle . The ...
... poets of the time : Aneurin , Llywarch Hen , and Taliesin . Aneurin was also a warrior , and was himself present at the ... poem still remain , and nearly every one is a lament over a different Cymric chief who fell in this battle . The ...
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... poem is very like that of the Yorkshire coast around Whitby ; there are also indications of its having been written after the conversion of the Teutons to Christianity . It is probably 6 THE STORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE .
... poem is very like that of the Yorkshire coast around Whitby ; there are also indications of its having been written after the conversion of the Teutons to Christianity . It is probably 6 THE STORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE .
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... poem calls them . It was a large hall , with flat stones down the centre , which formed the hearth . Around were tables and benches , and the latter served for beds at night . There was a great feast when the hall was finished , and the ...
... poem calls them . It was a large hall , with flat stones down the centre , which formed the hearth . Around were tables and benches , and the latter served for beds at night . There was a great feast when the hall was finished , and the ...
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... poem , which he called " The Brut . " This book has an important place in literature , because it was one of the first books written in English since the Norman Conquest ; and it also shows how the old simple earnestness of the English ...
... poem , which he called " The Brut . " This book has an important place in literature , because it was one of the first books written in English since the Norman Conquest ; and it also shows how the old simple earnestness of the English ...
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Página 247 - Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe, and pale jessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freaked with jet, The glowing violet, The musk-rose, and the well-attired woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears; Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffodillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.
Página 242 - Beauty is Nature's brag, and must be shown In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, Where most may wonder at' the workmanship ; It is for homely features to keep home, They had their name thence ; coarse complexions, And cheeks of sorry grain, will serve to ply The sampler, and to tease the huswife's wool.
Página 246 - ... devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Página 287 - Henceforth I learn, that to obey is best, And love, with fear, the only God ; to walk As in his presence, ever to observe His providence, and on him sole depend...
Página 218 - Fair daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon: As yet the early-rising sun Has not attained his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the evensong; And, having prayed together, we Will go with you along. » We have short time to stay as you; We have as short a spring; As quick a growth to meet decay, As you or anything. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away Like to the summer's rain; Or as the pearls of morning's dew, Ne'er to be found again.
Página 434 - How small, of all that human hearts endure , That part which laws or kings can cause or cure...
Página 342 - At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame ; The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarg'd the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown ; He raised a mortal to the skies, She drew an angel down.
Página 486 - They moved in tracks of shining white, And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich attire: Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, They coiled and swam ; and every track Was a flash of golden fire.
Página 247 - Weep no more, woeful Shepherds, weep no more ! For Lycidas, your sorrow, is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor : So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Página 163 - Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell : Hark! now I hear them, — ding-dong, bell.