Chamber's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Volumen1J.B. Lippincott Company, 1902 |
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... Father's home , leading all the Old Testament saints up out of Hades , and of the meeting with Him and them of the host of heaven who have poured from the gates to wel- come the new - comers . The third part of the poem begins with the ...
... Father's home , leading all the Old Testament saints up out of Hades , and of the meeting with Him and them of the host of heaven who have poured from the gates to wel- come the new - comers . The third part of the poem begins with the ...
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... Father . And I bide here , waiting till He on whose Rood I looked of old shall bring me to the happy place where the High God's folk are set at the evening meal . ' And with that the " oetry and the life of Cynewulf close . The time is ...
... Father . And I bide here , waiting till He on whose Rood I looked of old shall bring me to the happy place where the High God's folk are set at the evening meal . ' And with that the " oetry and the life of Cynewulf close . The time is ...
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... father is called King Murry , in the third his name is Allof . The ' Saracens ' slay Allof ; and though they will not kill Horn because of his beauty , they set him adrift in a boat with twelve companions . The boat carries them to ...
... father is called King Murry , in the third his name is Allof . The ' Saracens ' slay Allof ; and though they will not kill Horn because of his beauty , they set him adrift in a boat with twelve companions . The boat carries them to ...
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... Father , I shall fett her in , I trawe Withouten any faile . Mother , my father after thee sende , And biddes thee into yonder ship wende , Loke up and see the winde , For we bene ready to saile . Noah's Wife . Shem , go again to him ...
... Father , I shall fett her in , I trawe Withouten any faile . Mother , my father after thee sende , And biddes thee into yonder ship wende , Loke up and see the winde , For we bene ready to saile . Noah's Wife . Shem , go again to him ...
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... father cannot understand how so little a child can have so rich a reward , the parable of the Labourers in the Vineyard is told to enlighten him . Much of the poem is taken up with the glories of an apocalyptic vision ; and at last ...
... father cannot understand how so little a child can have so rich a reward , the parable of the Labourers in the Vineyard is told to enlighten him . Much of the poem is taken up with the glories of an apocalyptic vision ; and at last ...
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Chamber's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical ..., Volumen1 Robert Chambers Vista de fragmentos - 1922 |
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Página 369 - ... shores And make a sop of all this solid globe : Strength should be lord of imbecility, And the rude son should strike his father dead : Force should be right ; or rather, right and wrong, Between whose endless jar justice resides, Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then...
Página 368 - O mistress mine, where are you roaming? O stay and hear; your true love's coming, That can sing both high and low. Trip no further, pretty sweeting; Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know.
Página 372 - twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war : to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt ; the...
Página 409 - Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth rise Doth ask a drink divine; But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine.
Página 366 - Harry, I do not only marvel where thou spendest thy time, but also how thou art accompanied : for though the camomile, the more it is trodden on the faster it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted the sooner it wears.
Página 360 - This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, Fear'd by their breed and famous by their birth, Renowned for their deeds as far from home, For Christian service and true chivalry, As is the sepulchre in stubborn Jewry Of the world's ransom, blessed Mary's Son, This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land, Dear for her reputation through the world...
Página 370 - No more of that. I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice.
Página 353 - Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten: In folly ripe, in reason rotten. Thy belt of straw and ivy buds, Thy coral clasps and amber studs, All these in me no means can move To come to thee, and be thy love.
Página 369 - Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake.
Página 373 - Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not : Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's ; then if thou fall'st...