A History of English LiteratureMacmillan, 1901 - 534 страници |
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... father was widely known , a high - born lord hight Ecgtheow . " Then the thane knew that this young man was Beowulf ; and led him gladly up to the king . Hrothgar was sitting , bald and old , when his thane approached and told of the ...
... father was widely known , a high - born lord hight Ecgtheow . " Then the thane knew that this young man was Beowulf ; and led him gladly up to the king . Hrothgar was sitting , bald and old , when his thane approached and told of the ...
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... Father , when of each of His wonders the ever - living Lord He erst created Heaven as a high roof , then the mid - world , Eternal Lord , dry land for men , ordered the origin . for earth's children Holy Creator ; the Guardian of ...
... Father , when of each of His wonders the ever - living Lord He erst created Heaven as a high roof , then the mid - world , Eternal Lord , dry land for men , ordered the origin . for earth's children Holy Creator ; the Guardian of ...
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... father and mother left me yet life , the life within me , Then a female began very gracious to me , with her kindly aid helped me Until , as my nature waxed became strange My protectress fed me soon was I able Her own children because ...
... father and mother left me yet life , the life within me , Then a female began very gracious to me , with her kindly aid helped me Until , as my nature waxed became strange My protectress fed me soon was I able Her own children because ...
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... father of a son , who was to be called Sir Galahad . Lancelot himself had been depicted as the flower of a purely mundane chivalry ; but Sir Galahad was to be a spiritual knight , whose dress of flame - colour typified the Holy Spirit ...
... father of a son , who was to be called Sir Galahad . Lancelot himself had been depicted as the flower of a purely mundane chivalry ; but Sir Galahad was to be a spiritual knight , whose dress of flame - colour typified the Holy Spirit ...
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... father's death atone for . " Without more ado , Horn and his friends were thrown into a boat to find their way wherever they could . The other youths were terrified , and could give hardly any help at all . Horn rowed like a man all the ...
... father's death atone for . " Without more ado , Horn and his friends were thrown into a boat to find their way wherever they could . The other youths were terrified , and could give hardly any help at all . Horn rowed like a man all the ...
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Страница 424 - Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome ! those caves of ice I And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry,
Страница 301 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike...
Страница 356 - Winter, yelling through the troublous air, Affrights thy shrinking train, And rudely rends thy robes, — So long, regardful of thy quiet rule, Shall Fancy, Friendship, Science, smiling Peace, Thy gentlest influence own, And love thy favourite name.
Страница 218 - Go, lovely rose ! Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spied. That hadst thou sprung In deserts where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired : Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired. Then die ! that she The common fate of all things rare May read in thee, — How...
Страница 421 - Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not. — Great God! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.
Страница 404 - Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: "Pipe a song about a Lamb!' So I piped with merry cheer. 'Piper, pipe that song again;
Страница 257 - In the first rank of these did Zimri stand ;* A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long...
Страница 199 - Shake hands for ever, cancel all our vows, And when we meet at any time again, Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain.
Страница 233 - Purification in the old law did save, And such, as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind. Her face was...
Страница 187 - A lily of a day Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures life may perfect be.