A Text-book on English Literature: With Copious Extracts from the Leading Authors, English and American, with Full Instructions as to the Method in which These are to be Studied, Adapted for Use in Colleges, High Schools and AcademiesClark & Maynard, 1884 - 478 pages |
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... Telling Poetry . John Gower ...... ++ 45 His three Periods .... His Character ...... 46 48 49 51 52 55 His Canterbury Tales 56 Criticisms of him and Extracts from ....... 89 58 Celtic Elements .. National Elements . Individual Element ...
... Telling Poetry . John Gower ...... ++ 45 His three Periods .... His Character ...... 46 48 49 51 52 55 His Canterbury Tales 56 Criticisms of him and Extracts from ....... 89 58 Celtic Elements .. National Elements . Individual Element ...
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... tell his dream before learned men that they might give judgment whence his verses came . And , when they had heard , they all said that heavenly grace had been conferred on him by our Lord . Cadmon's poem , written about 670 , is for us ...
... tell his dream before learned men that they might give judgment whence his verses came . And , when they had heard , they all said that heavenly grace had been conferred on him by our Lord . Cadmon's poem , written about 670 , is for us ...
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... TELLING POETRY . - These are the two main streams into which this poetical literature divides itself . The religious poetry is entirely English in spirit and a poetry of the people , from the Ormulum of Ormin , 1215 , to the Vision of ...
... TELLING POETRY . - These are the two main streams into which this poetical literature divides itself . The religious poetry is entirely English in spirit and a poetry of the people , from the Ormulum of Ormin , 1215 , to the Vision of ...
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... telling we possess . The struggle , then , of England , against the foreigner , to become and remain England finds its parallel in the struggle of English poetry , against the influence of foreign poetry , to become and remain English ...
... telling we possess . The struggle , then , of England , against the foreigner , to become and remain England finds its parallel in the struggle of English poetry , against the influence of foreign poetry , to become and remain English ...
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... . , VI . , XIX . , and XXIV .; Marsh's Or . and Hist . Eng . Lang . , Lec- tures IV . and VII . Also many works referred to at the end of Lesson 3 . LESSON 8 . ENGLISH STORY - TELLING POETRY . " 42 Literature of Period II . , 1066–1400 .
... . , VI . , XIX . , and XXIV .; Marsh's Or . and Hist . Eng . Lang . , Lec- tures IV . and VII . Also many works referred to at the end of Lesson 3 . LESSON 8 . ENGLISH STORY - TELLING POETRY . " 42 Literature of Period II . , 1066–1400 .
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Page 397 - THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Page 409 - Away! away! for I will fly to thee, Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards, But on the viewless wings of Poesy, Though the dull brain perplexes and retards: Already with thee ! tender is the night, And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne, Clustered around by all her starry Fays; But here there is no light, Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways.
Page 409 - Darkling I listen; and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain To thy high requiem become a sod.
Page 181 - But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began : The winds with wonder whist Smoothly the waters kissed, Whispering new joys to the mild ocean, Who now hath quite forgot to rave, While birds of calm sit brooding on the charmed wave.
Page 397 - But through it there rolled not the breath of his pride; And the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf, And cold as the spray of the rock-beating surf. And there lay the rider, distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail ; And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown.
Page 180 - With her great Master so to sympathize : It was no season then for her To wanton with the sun, her lusty paramour. Only with speeches fair She woos the gentle air To hide her guilty front with innocent snow ; And on her naked shame, Pollute with sinful blame, The saintly veil of maiden white to throw ; Confounded, that her Maker's eyes Should look so near upon her foul deformities.
Page 398 - Salamis ; And ships, by thousands, lay below, And men in nations ; — all were his ! He counted them at break of day — And when...
Page 399 - Must we but weep o'er days more blest? Must we but blush? Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead ! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae ! What, silent still? and silent all? Ah ! no : the voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's fall, And answer, 'Let one living head, But one arise, — we come, we come ! ' 'Tis but the living who are dumb.
Page 197 - ... blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure ; Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain. Soothed with the sound the king grew vain ; Fought all his battles o'er again ; And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain.
Page 340 - You will think me transported with enthusiasm, but I am not. I am well aware of the toil, and blood, and treasure that it will cost us to maintain this declaration, and support and defend these States. Yet, through all the gloom, I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory.