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Edward Albert. A HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE CHAPTER I THE OLD ENGLISH PERIOD THE BEGINNINGS Of the actual facts concerning the origin of English liter- ature we know little indeed . Nearly all the literary history of the period , as ...
Edward Albert. A HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE CHAPTER I THE OLD ENGLISH PERIOD THE BEGINNINGS Of the actual facts concerning the origin of English liter- ature we know little indeed . Nearly all the literary history of the period , as ...
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... beginning never Origin been , Nor now cometh end To the eternal Lord , But he is ever powerful Over the heavenly thrones . CÆDMON . There in that land is not Harmful enmity , Nor wail nor vengeance , Evil - token none , Old age nor ...
... beginning never Origin been , Nor now cometh end To the eternal Lord , But he is ever powerful Over the heavenly thrones . CÆDMON . There in that land is not Harmful enmity , Nor wail nor vengeance , Evil - token none , Old age nor ...
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... beginning of vre tale Fille me a cuppe of ful god are . Havelock the Dane , 1300 Byteuene Mershe & Aueril When spray biginneþ to springe , Þe lutel foul hap hire wyl On hyre lud to synge ; Ich libbe in louelonginge For semlokest 11 of ...
... beginning of vre tale Fille me a cuppe of ful god are . Havelock the Dane , 1300 Byteuene Mershe & Aueril When spray biginneþ to springe , Þe lutel foul hap hire wyl On hyre lud to synge ; Ich libbe in louelonginge For semlokest 11 of ...
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... beginning ; for the tradition is handed on to the powerful group of poets who are mentioned in the next chapter . GEOFFREY CHAUCER ( 1340-1400 ) 1. His Life . In many of the documents of the time Chaucer's name is mentioned with some ...
... beginning ; for the tradition is handed on to the powerful group of poets who are mentioned in the next chapter . GEOFFREY CHAUCER ( 1340-1400 ) 1. His Life . In many of the documents of the time Chaucer's name is mentioned with some ...
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... beginning to the long series of Scottish heroic poems . The spirited beginning is often quoted : • A ! fredome is a nobill thing ! Fredome mayss man to haiff liking ! Fredome all solace to man giffis ; He levys at ess that frely levys ...
... beginning to the long series of Scottish heroic poems . The spirited beginning is often quoted : • A ! fredome is a nobill thing ! Fredome mayss man to haiff liking ! Fredome all solace to man giffis ; He levys at ess that frely levys ...
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Page 448 - twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane— as I do here.
Page 202 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul, All the images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Page 259 - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; 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...
Page 184 - Our two souls, therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two: Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth if th
Page 392 - He has outsoared the shadow of our night; Envy and calumny and hate and pain, And that unrest which men miscall delight, Can touch him not and torture not again...
Page 224 - Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries. The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time hath made...
Page 562 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but .the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Page 137 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Page 165 - For, so to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise; Ay me ! whilst thee the shores and sounding seas Wash far away, where'er thy bones are hurled; Whether beyond the stormy Hebrides, Where thou perhaps under the whelming tide Visit'st the bottom of the monstrous world...
Page 295 - In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs, — and God has given my share, — I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down ; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose.