Introduction to English Literature, Including a Number of Classic Works. With Notes |
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... light and heat of the hearth- fire , and then flying forth from the other , vanishes into the wintry darkness whence it came . So tarries for a moment the life of man in our sight , but what is before it and what after it , we know not ...
... light and heat of the hearth- fire , and then flying forth from the other , vanishes into the wintry darkness whence it came . So tarries for a moment the life of man in our sight , but what is before it and what after it , we know not ...
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... light , For certes ye now make me heavy cheer . " There are passages in his works that are very offensive to modern taste ; but they are not to be charged so much to Chaucer's love of indecency , as to the grossness of his age and to ...
... light , For certes ye now make me heavy cheer . " There are passages in his works that are very offensive to modern taste ; but they are not to be charged so much to Chaucer's love of indecency , as to the grossness of his age and to ...
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... light tone in speaking of women — a levity that soon gave place to a truly chivalrous regard . In 1580 he was ap- pointed secretary to Lord Grey , deputy to Ireland , and accom- panied that official through the bloody scenes connected ...
... light tone in speaking of women — a levity that soon gave place to a truly chivalrous regard . In 1580 he was ap- pointed secretary to Lord Grey , deputy to Ireland , and accom- panied that official through the bloody scenes connected ...
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... light they throw on the poet's life . Whatever may have been the real character of the Irish maiden he celebrates , in the poems she is idealized into great beauty . It was only after a protracted suit that the poet met with ...
... light they throw on the poet's life . Whatever may have been the real character of the Irish maiden he celebrates , in the poems she is idealized into great beauty . It was only after a protracted suit that the poet met with ...
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... light of heaven is shut out by clouds , and the warrior loses his way in the " wandering wood , " the haunt of Error . " For light she hated as the deadly bale , Ay wont in desert darkness to remaine , Where plain none might her see ...
... light of heaven is shut out by clouds , and the warrior loses his way in the " wandering wood , " the haunt of Error . " For light she hated as the deadly bale , Ay wont in desert darkness to remaine , Where plain none might her see ...
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