Development of English Literature and Language, Volumes 1-2S.C. Griggs, 1882 |
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... Verse - Form . Alliteration . Rhyme . The Saxon Ideal Beowulf . Tragic Tones of Saxon Poetry . Sombre Imagination - of the North Romantic Fiction . Its Origin . Its Themes . Love Courts . Its Form . Its Poets . Layamon . Robert of ...
... Verse - Form . Alliteration . Rhyme . The Saxon Ideal Beowulf . Tragic Tones of Saxon Poetry . Sombre Imagination - of the North Romantic Fiction . Its Origin . Its Themes . Love Courts . Its Form . Its Poets . Layamon . Robert of ...
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... Verse - Form . The Theatre . Mysteries . Tragedy ; Sackville . Ex- of England . Superstitions of the People The Renaissance ; its Rise and Development . Language . Anomalies . Progress in Simplicity . Organized Completion Poetry . Colin ...
... Verse - Form . The Theatre . Mysteries . Tragedy ; Sackville . Ex- of England . Superstitions of the People The Renaissance ; its Rise and Development . Language . Anomalies . Progress in Simplicity . Organized Completion Poetry . Colin ...
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... Verse . English Language . .England in the Eighteenth Century . .History of European Morals . Rationalism in Europe . View of Deistical Writers . Biographical History of Philosophy . History of English Translations of the Bible ...
... Verse . English Language . .England in the Eighteenth Century . .History of European Morals . Rationalism in Europe . View of Deistical Writers . Biographical History of Philosophy . History of English Translations of the Bible ...
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... verse with the inmates , then kick the sides of his steed and make his exit without having alighted ; have sat in circle with the guests , each with his block of wood and piece of meat ; have seen the whole family lie down to savage ...
... verse with the inmates , then kick the sides of his steed and make his exit without having alighted ; have sat in circle with the guests , each with his block of wood and piece of meat ; have seen the whole family lie down to savage ...
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... verse . There was a per- petual order of men , like the rhapsodists of ancient Greece and the bards of the Celtic tribes , who were at once poets and histo- rians ; whose exclusive employment it was to learn and repeat ; wandering ...
... verse . There was a per- petual order of men , like the rhapsodists of ancient Greece and the bards of the Celtic tribes , who were at once poets and histo- rians ; whose exclusive employment it was to learn and repeat ; wandering ...
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Page 460 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence : Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell : Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.
Page 370 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods...
Page 360 - Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!" I shrieked, upstarting "Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore ! Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken ! Leave my loneliness unbroken! quit the bust above my door! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
Page 40 - Those are Grecian ghosts, that in battle were slain And unburied remain Inglorious on the plain : Give the vengeance due To the valiant crew ! Behold how they toss their torches on high, How they point to the Persian abodes And glittering temples of their hostile gods.
Page 444 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Page 268 - I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under, And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.
Page 360 - And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, . And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor: And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted — nevermore...
Page 372 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly : If the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, With his surcease, success ; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, — We'd jump the life to come.
Page 362 - tis fittest. Cor. How does my royal lord? How fares your majesty? Lear. You do me wrong, to take me out o' the grave. — Thou art a soul in bliss ; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.
Page 333 - Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten; In folly ripe, in reason rotten. Thy belt of straw and ivy buds, Thy coral clasps and amber studs, All these in me no means can move, To come to thee and be thy love.