A manual of English literature and of the history of the English language [abridged from Sketches of the history of literature and learning in England].Griffin, Bohn, and Company, 1862 - 544 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 46
... imaginations , and for the most part only supposed that they comprehended what they were listening to ; but it is probable that their self- deception was assisted by their catching a word or phrase here and there the meaning of which ...
... imaginations , and for the most part only supposed that they comprehended what they were listening to ; but it is probable that their self- deception was assisted by their catching a word or phrase here and there the meaning of which ...
Σελίδα 104
... imagination . The author has clothed the fables of Geoffrey of Monmouth in rhyme , which have often a more poetical air in Geoffrey's prose . " Tyrwhitt refers to Robert of Gloucester in proof of the fact that the English language had ...
... imagination . The author has clothed the fables of Geoffrey of Monmouth in rhyme , which have often a more poetical air in Geoffrey's prose . " Tyrwhitt refers to Robert of Gloucester in proof of the fact that the English language had ...
Σελίδα 132
... imaginative and impassioned song , his genius has exercised itself in all styles of poetry , and won imperishable laurels in all . " * It has been commonly believed that one of the chief sources from which Chaucer drew both the form and ...
... imaginative and impassioned song , his genius has exercised itself in all styles of poetry , and won imperishable laurels in all . " * It has been commonly believed that one of the chief sources from which Chaucer drew both the form and ...
Σελίδα 140
... imagination , and force of expres- sion , for which the poem is remarkable : - : - What did this Eolus ? but he Took out his blacke trompe of brass , That fouler than the devil was , And gan this trompe for to blow As all the world ...
... imagination , and force of expres- sion , for which the poem is remarkable : - : - What did this Eolus ? but he Took out his blacke trompe of brass , That fouler than the devil was , And gan this trompe for to blow As all the world ...
Σελίδα 141
... imagination far richer and more gorgeous , his sensi- bility infinitely more delicate and more profound . And this great work of Chaucer's is nearly as remarkably distinguished by its peculiar character from the great works of other ...
... imagination far richer and more gorgeous , his sensi- bility infinitely more delicate and more profound . And this great work of Chaucer's is nearly as remarkably distinguished by its peculiar character from the great works of other ...
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A Manual of English Literature: And of the History of the English Language ... George Lillie Craik Προβολή αποσπασμάτων - 1867 |
A Manual of English Literature, and of the History of the English Language ... George L 1798-1866 Craik Δεν υπάρχει διαθέσιμη προεπισκόπηση - 2015 |
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Σελίδα 489 - What thou art we know not: What is most like thee ? From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody. Like a poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not...
Σελίδα 296 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war; Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Σελίδα 316 - The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Σελίδα 437 - O' clod or stane, Adorns the histie stibble-field, Unseen, alane. There, in thy scanty mantle clad, Thy snawie bosom sun-ward spread, Thou lifts thy unassuming head In humble guise; But now the share uptears thy bed, And low thou lies! Such is the fate of artless maid, Sweet floweret of the rural shade ! By love's simplicity betray'd, And guileless trust, Till she, like thee, all soil'd, is laid Low i
Σελίδα 494 - 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.
Σελίδα 493 - MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, > Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk : 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness, — That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease.
Σελίδα 518 - Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown rats, black rats, gray rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and dozens, Brothers, sisters, husbands, wives — Followed the Piper for their lives.
Σελίδα 493 - O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth ; That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim...
Σελίδα 494 - Forlorn ! the very word is like a bell To toll me back from thee to my sole self ! Adieu ! the fancy cannot cheat so well As she is famed to do, deceiving elf. Adieu ! adieu ! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream, Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep In the next valley-glades : Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music: — do I wake or sleep?
Σελίδα 430 - Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet— Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave; nor did there want Cornice or frieze, with bossy sculptures graven: The roof was fretted gold.