Familiar Talks on English Literature: A Manual Embracing the Great Epochs of English Literature from the English Conquest of Britain, 449, to the Death of Walter Scott, 1832A. C. McClurg, 1892 - 433 σελίδες |
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... ENGLAND . III . THE BEGINNINGS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE • IV . ON THE FORM OF EARLY ENGLISH Poetry , and tHE OLD POEM OF CEDMON V. TELLING OF THE VENERABLE BEDA AND OF KING Alfred the Good , and of THE WORK THEY DID IN LITERATURE . VI ...
... ENGLAND . III . THE BEGINNINGS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE • IV . ON THE FORM OF EARLY ENGLISH Poetry , and tHE OLD POEM OF CEDMON V. TELLING OF THE VENERABLE BEDA AND OF KING Alfred the Good , and of THE WORK THEY DID IN LITERATURE . VI ...
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... England " and " English " is derived , since from their language our modern speech has been formed , and it is they whom we are proud to call our fore- fathers . Let us first ask , then , who these people were that have stamped their ...
... England " and " English " is derived , since from their language our modern speech has been formed , and it is they whom we are proud to call our fore- fathers . Let us first ask , then , who these people were that have stamped their ...
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... England to this day . The Romans , too , had brought Christianity to Britain , and the new religion was adopted there ; so that the Britons felt their superiority over other peoples , and looked on their neighbor Teutons across the ...
... England to this day . The Romans , too , had brought Christianity to Britain , and the new religion was adopted there ; so that the Britons felt their superiority over other peoples , and looked on their neighbor Teutons across the ...
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... England , on which they had fought for their place till they were firmly established as the rightful owners of the land . And thus , by the right of conquest , the English people became possessors of England . II . TELLING HOW LETTERS ...
... England , on which they had fought for their place till they were firmly established as the rightful owners of the land . And thus , by the right of conquest , the English people became possessors of England . II . TELLING HOW LETTERS ...
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... ENGLAND . TOU will readily guess that these warlike English , when Yothe they landed on the shores of England , were not a lit- erary people . The Britons , who were such savages in the eyes of the cultured Romans , were much more ...
... ENGLAND . TOU will readily guess that these warlike English , when Yothe they landed on the shores of England , were not a lit- erary people . The Britons , who were such savages in the eyes of the cultured Romans , were much more ...
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Σελίδα 380 - 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.
Σελίδα 180 - 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...
Σελίδα 316 - Wept o'er his wounds or tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.
Σελίδα 190 - To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise...
Σελίδα 143 - This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise ; This fortress, built by nature for herself, Against infection, and the hand of war ; This happy breed of men, this little world ; This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall, Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands ; This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, VOL.
Σελίδα 381 - And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide, But through it there roll'd 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.
Σελίδα 294 - O'erhang his wavy bed : Now air is hushed, save where the weak-eyed bat With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises, 'midst the twilight path Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum...
Σελίδα 359 - High instincts, before which our mortal nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised : But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing...
Σελίδα 364 - Like leviathans afloat Lay their bulwarks on the brine ; While the sign of battle flew On the lofty British line : It was ten of April morn by the chime, As they drifted on their path, There was silence deep as death, And the boldest held his breath For a time. But the might of England flushed To anticipate the scene, And her van the fleeter rushed O'er the deadly space between. "Hearts of oak!
Σελίδα 315 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...