A Text-book on English Literature: With Copious Extracts from the Leading Authors, English and American, with Full Instructions as to the Method in which These are to be Studied, Adapted for Use in Colleges, High Schools and AcademiesClark & Maynard, 1883 - 478 páginas |
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... close ? Are any loose sentences , containing each at least one point before the end at which the sense is complete , the part following not making complete sense ? Does he abound in parentheses ? Is he happy in grouping his sentences ...
... close ? Are any loose sentences , containing each at least one point before the end at which the sense is complete , the part following not making complete sense ? Does he abound in parentheses ? Is he happy in grouping his sentences ...
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... close ? XVI . FEELING . - Is the author's heart in his writings or only his intellect ? If the writing is colored by sentiment , what feelings of the reader are principally appealed to ? What in a subordinate degree ? Does the thought ...
... close ? XVI . FEELING . - Is the author's heart in his writings or only his intellect ? If the writing is colored by sentiment , what feelings of the reader are principally appealed to ? What in a subordinate degree ? Does the thought ...
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... close of the religious influence of the Friars . In the Vision of Piers the Plowman , the protest its writer makes for purity of life is also a protest against the foul life and the hypocrisy of the Friars . In this poem , the whole of ...
... close of the religious influence of the Friars . In the Vision of Piers the Plowman , the protest its writer makes for purity of life is also a protest against the foul life and the hypocrisy of the Friars . In this poem , the whole of ...
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... close on Bosworth Field , the Earl of Richmond , a Lancastrian , marries Eliz . of York , and becomes Hen . VII . , the first Tudor king . At the taking of Constantinople by the Turks , 1453 ( they had settled in Europe , 1356 ) the ...
... close on Bosworth Field , the Earl of Richmond , a Lancastrian , marries Eliz . of York , and becomes Hen . VII . , the first Tudor king . At the taking of Constantinople by the Turks , 1453 ( they had settled in Europe , 1356 ) the ...
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... close , and poetical observation and description of natural scenery in Scotland , from the earliest times of its poetry , such as is not seen in English poetry till the time of Wordsworth . The second is the love of color . All early ...
... close , and poetical observation and description of natural scenery in Scotland , from the earliest times of its poetry , such as is not seen in English poetry till the time of Wordsworth . The second is the love of color . All early ...
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Página 398 - 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.
Página 438 - Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned At that far height, the cold thin atmosphere; Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near.
Página 410 - Away! away! for I will fly to thee, Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards, But on the viewless wings of Poesy, Though the dull brain perplexes and retards: Already with thee! tender is the night, And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne, Clustered around by all her starry Fays...
Página 410 - I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet...
Página 410 - 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.
Página 216 - Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease ; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear like the Turk no brother near the throne ,• View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer...
Página 437 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Página 197 - Twas at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son : Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate On his imperial throne...
Página 262 - Guid faith he mauna fa' that ! For a' that, and a' that, Their dignities, and a' that, The pith o' sense, and pride o' worth, Are higher rank than a' that. Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that ; That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, and a' that. For a
Página 421 - ... human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'da ghastly dew From the nations...