A history of English literature for junior classesWilliam Collins, Sons,, 1873 - 253 páginas |
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... thought very good indeed ; and there are some passages here and there throughout the poem which are even now considered excellent . Anglo- Saxon verse was peculiar - not in the least like ours . had neither rhyme nor rhythm . It had no ...
... thought very good indeed ; and there are some passages here and there throughout the poem which are even now considered excellent . Anglo- Saxon verse was peculiar - not in the least like ours . had neither rhyme nor rhythm . It had no ...
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... thought to kyll : dispitious and cruell , not for cruell will alway , but after for ambicion , and either for the suretie or encrease of his estate . He spared no mans deathe , whose life withstoode his purpose . " He was ROGER ASCHAM ...
... thought to kyll : dispitious and cruell , not for cruell will alway , but after for ambicion , and either for the suretie or encrease of his estate . He spared no mans deathe , whose life withstoode his purpose . " He was ROGER ASCHAM ...
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... thoughts of such poets as Spenser and Shakespeare . The encourage- ment given to eminent authors by Queen Elizabeth and her successors , is also of great importance in accounting for the literary greatness of England at this time . In ...
... thoughts of such poets as Spenser and Shakespeare . The encourage- ment given to eminent authors by Queen Elizabeth and her successors , is also of great importance in accounting for the literary greatness of England at this time . In ...
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... thoughts just as they came from their hearts ; now we are to have poets who have excellent ideas to express , but they convey them in forms as strange , odd , and fantastical as it is possible to imagine . For instance , a poet wishing ...
... thoughts just as they came from their hearts ; now we are to have poets who have excellent ideas to express , but they convey them in forms as strange , odd , and fantastical as it is possible to imagine . For instance , a poet wishing ...
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... thought- ful of all Shakespeare's plays . It tells the story of a Danish Prince ( Hamlet ) who is displeased because his mother , the Queen , has married his uncle ( Claudius ) so soon after his father's death . At midnight , the ghost ...
... thought- ful of all Shakespeare's plays . It tells the story of a Danish Prince ( Hamlet ) who is displeased because his mother , the Queen , has married his uncle ( Claudius ) so soon after his father's death . At midnight , the ghost ...
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Página 69 - Join voices, all ye living Souls; ye Birds, That, singing, up to Heaven-gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise. Ye that in waters glide, and ye that walk • The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep, Witness if I be silent, morn or even, To hill or valley, fountain, or fresh shade, Made vocal by my song, and taught his praise. Hail, universal Lord! Be bounteous still To give us only good ; and, if the night Have gathered aught of evil, or concealed, Disperse it, as now light...
Página 69 - Whether to deck with clouds the uncolour'd sky, Or wet the thirsty earth with falling showers, Rising or falling still advance his praise. His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave.
Página 186 - We watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. " ' So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. " ' Our very hopes belied our fears ; Our fears our hopes belied ; We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died. " ' For when the morn came dim and sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed ; — she had Another morn...
Página 92 - On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood. Robed in the sable garb of woe. With haggard eyes the poet stood; (Loose his beard, and hoary hair Streamed, like a meteor, to the troubled air), And with a master's hand, and prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre.
Página 29 - I am in presence either of father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry, or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing, or doing anything else, I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly, as God made the world...
Página 76 - Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.
Página 74 - ALL human things are subject to decay, And when fate summons, monarchs must obey: This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, young Was called to empire, and had governed long: In prose and verse, was owned, without dispute, Through all the realms of Nonsense, absolute.
Página 53 - 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.
Página 50 - Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough brier, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire, I do wander every where, Swifter than the moon's sphere; And I serve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs upon the green. The cowslips tall her pensioners be: In their gold coats spots you see; Those be rubies, fairy favours, In those freckles live their savours: I must go seek some dewdrops here, And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.
Página 137 - SHE dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise, And very few to love. A Violet by a mossy stone Half-hidden from the eye ! — Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky.