A History of English LiteratureMacmillan, 1901 - 534 страници |
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... result was not worked out in a day ; it took centuries to accom- plish the task ; but the difference it made to England was plainly marked from the beginning . The English language was not immediately swept away . The Old English ...
... result was not worked out in a day ; it took centuries to accom- plish the task ; but the difference it made to England was plainly marked from the beginning . The English language was not immediately swept away . The Old English ...
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... result has ever been obtained . 13. English Books with a Tinge of French . At the end of the thirteenth century and the beginning of the fourteenth some metrical romances were written , in which , though the Anglo - Saxon inflections ...
... result has ever been obtained . 13. English Books with a Tinge of French . At the end of the thirteenth century and the beginning of the fourteenth some metrical romances were written , in which , though the Anglo - Saxon inflections ...
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... result was that the same thing happened both in literature and in civilisation . The cultivation of Rome , whether it came ecclesiastically through the church or popularly through the Norman - French , modified and expanded the native ...
... result was that the same thing happened both in literature and in civilisation . The cultivation of Rome , whether it came ecclesiastically through the church or popularly through the Norman - French , modified and expanded the native ...
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... result of the grant was to raise Chaucer to the position of a yeoman of the king's chamber . Here his duties were those of an ordinary personal servant , and included the serving in the lord's chamber , the making of beds , the holding ...
... result of the grant was to raise Chaucer to the position of a yeoman of the king's chamber . Here his duties were those of an ordinary personal servant , and included the serving in the lord's chamber , the making of beds , the holding ...
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... result was the production of a lengthy poem , the scheme of which , modelled on actual occurrences , was simplicity itself . At a certain inn in Southwark some nine - and- twenty or thirty people were described as meeting , who were all ...
... result was the production of a lengthy poem , the scheme of which , modelled on actual occurrences , was simplicity itself . At a certain inn in Southwark some nine - and- twenty or thirty people were described as meeting , who were all ...
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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.