English LiteratureMacmillan, 1917 - 427 páginas |
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... human inhab- itants of the British Isles appear to have been cave dwellers and men much like the Eskimos of Greenland . Then came the Iberians , among the descendants of whom are , perhaps , the Basques of northern Spain . A third race ...
... human inhab- itants of the British Isles appear to have been cave dwellers and men much like the Eskimos of Greenland . Then came the Iberians , among the descendants of whom are , perhaps , the Basques of northern Spain . A third race ...
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... human enemies , after having been fifty years a king . Beowulf wins all combats , until one day he goes to do battle with a dragon who for three hundred years has guarded a treasure in a cave near the " sea- surge . " King Beowulf and ...
... human enemies , after having been fifty years a king . Beowulf wins all combats , until one day he goes to do battle with a dragon who for three hundred years has guarded a treasure in a cave near the " sea- surge . " King Beowulf and ...
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... human life . The epic of Beowulf has some elements of greatness . It re- veals that the early English were of the same imaginative and tu- multuous temperament , the same mixture of joy and somberness , as the English of much later date ...
... human life . The epic of Beowulf has some elements of greatness . It re- veals that the early English were of the same imaginative and tu- multuous temperament , the same mixture of joy and somberness , as the English of much later date ...
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... human existence . This book was followed by Dowel , Dobet , and Dobest , also by Langland . Do Well , Do Bet , and Do Best are characters in the end identified with Jesus Christ , who is Love dressed as Piers Plowman . The poem should ...
... human existence . This book was followed by Dowel , Dobet , and Dobest , also by Langland . Do Well , Do Bet , and Do Best are characters in the end identified with Jesus Christ , who is Love dressed as Piers Plowman . The poem should ...
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... human existence . This is the century which preceded Chaucer , and helped , through its literature chiefly , more than all other things combined , to make Chaucer what he Chaucer was born about the year 1340 . was . Chaucer is one of ...
... human existence . This is the century which preceded Chaucer , and helped , through its literature chiefly , more than all other things combined , to make Chaucer what he Chaucer was born about the year 1340 . was . Chaucer is one of ...
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Página 56 - Homer ruled as his demesne; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Página 55 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust!
Página 105 - Fear no more the heat o' the sun Nor the furious winter's rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages; Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust. Fear no more the frown o...
Página 216 - He is made one with Nature: there is heard His voice in all her music, from the moan Of thunder to the song of night's sweet bird; He is a presence to be felt and known In darkness and in light, from herb and stone, "Spreading itself where'er that Power may move Which has withdrawn his being to its own; Wliich wields the world with never-wearied love, Sustains it from beneath, and kindles it above.
Página 148 - How sleep the Brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there!
Página 306 - We heard the sweet bells over the bay? In the caverns where we lay, Through the surf and through the swell, The far-off sound of a silver bell? Sand-strewn caverns, cool and deep, Where the winds are all asleep; Where the spent lights quiver and gleam, Where the salt weed sways in the stream, Where the sea-beasts, ranged all round, Feed in the ooze of their pasture-ground...
Página 199 - Roused though it be full often to a mood Which spurns the check of salutary bands,* That this most famous Stream in bogs and sands Should perish ; and to evil and to good Be lost for ever. In our halls is hung Armoury of the invincible Knights of old : We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakspeare spake ; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held.
Página 311 - It is the land that freemen till, That sober-suited Freedom chose, The land, where girt with friends or foes A man may speak the thing he will ; A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where Freedom slowly broadens down From precedent to precedent...
Página 216 - The brightness it may veil. When lofty thought Lifts a young heart above its mortal lair, And love and life contend in it, for what Shall be its earthly doom, the dead live there, And move like winds of light on dark and stormy air.
Página 198 - Thou hast left behind Powers that will work for thee; air, earth, and skies; There's not a breathing of the common wind That will forget thee; thou hast great allies; Thy friends are exultations, agonies, And love, and man's unconquerable mind.