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... earliest people with whom English literature in England is concerned were the Britons , whose name is still borne by ... Early Britons of their religion . Gradually an extensive literature was pro- I CONTENTS THE ANGLO-SAXON PERIOD, 449-1066.
... earliest people with whom English literature in England is concerned were the Britons , whose name is still borne by ... Early Britons of their religion . Gradually an extensive literature was pro- I CONTENTS THE ANGLO-SAXON PERIOD, 449-1066.
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... early as the second century , according to well - established traditions , there was a church at Glastonbury , " the first ground of God , the first ground of the Saints in Britain , " as the old chronicler proudly asserts . Here was a ...
... early as the second century , according to well - established traditions , there was a church at Glastonbury , " the first ground of God , the first ground of the Saints in Britain , " as the old chronicler proudly asserts . Here was a ...
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... Earliest Nature Poetry " shadowed by a fast - rooted wood , " is justly cele- brated as the earliest piece of nature poetry in our literature . The poem , like all early Anglo - Saxon poetry , is saturated with sea - mists . The poet ...
... Earliest Nature Poetry " shadowed by a fast - rooted wood , " is justly cele- brated as the earliest piece of nature poetry in our literature . The poem , like all early Anglo - Saxon poetry , is saturated with sea - mists . The poet ...
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... Earliest love poetry . In the first the forlorn wife , aban- doned by her husband , homeless and friendless , pours ... early German cycle of epics out of which War - Songs grew the Nibelungenlied , the great foundation epic of German ...
... Earliest love poetry . In the first the forlorn wife , aban- doned by her husband , homeless and friendless , pours ... early German cycle of epics out of which War - Songs grew the Nibelungenlied , the great foundation epic of German ...
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... early language and versification are still thoroughly alive Language in our literature . Anglo - Saxon is an inflected speech , like Latin , or more nearly like modern German , with which it is closely allied by race kinship . It has an ...
... early language and versification are still thoroughly alive Language in our literature . Anglo - Saxon is an inflected speech , like Latin , or more nearly like modern German , with which it is closely allied by race kinship . It has an ...
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Page 196 - No more of that. — I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice...
Page 148 - 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 348 - A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye ; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky...
Page 259 - 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 428 - Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is : What if my leaves are falling like its own ! The tumult of thy mighty harmonies Will take from both a deep, autumnal tone, Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit fierce, My spirit ! Be thou me, impetuous one...
Page 263 - For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints, whom all men grant To be the true church militant ; Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun ; Decide all controversies by Infallible artillery ; And prove their doctrine orthodox By apostolic blows and knocks...
Page 226 - If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two, Thy soul, the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th' other do. And though it in the center sit, Yet when the other far doth roam, It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th' other foot, obliquely run; Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end, where I begun.
Page 198 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
Page 535 - Dreamer of dreams, born out of my due time, Why should I strive to set the crooked straight ? Let it suffice me that my murmuring rhyme Beats with light wing against the ivory gate, Telling a tale not too importunate To those who in the sleepy region stay, Lulled by the singer of an empty day.
Page 527 - Hark ! where my blossomed pear-tree in the hedge Leans to the field, and scatters on the clover Blossoms and dewdrops, — at the bent spray's edge, — That 's the wise thrush ; he sings each song twice over, Lest you should think he never could recapture The first fine careless rapture.