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... imaginative people , with a pronounced gift of dramatic expression . They loved nature , especially its bright Celtic Literature aspects , the colors of opening buds and the flowers of spring . The bards sang of the beauty of women with ...
... imaginative people , with a pronounced gift of dramatic expression . They loved nature , especially its bright Celtic Literature aspects , the colors of opening buds and the flowers of spring . The bards sang of the beauty of women with ...
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... imaginative power of Beowulf is not great , its descriptions are full of truth and vigor , the narrative is spirited , the touch of pathetic tenderness at the close is finely conceived , and throughout a heroic spirit gives dignity to ...
... imaginative power of Beowulf is not great , its descriptions are full of truth and vigor , the narrative is spirited , the touch of pathetic tenderness at the close is finely conceived , and throughout a heroic spirit gives dignity to ...
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... imagination would enliven the dry facts of war and church affairs with a poem , such as The Battle of Brunanburh . . Brief extracts will illustrate the manner of making this famous history : - A.D. 802. This year on the 13th before the ...
... imagination would enliven the dry facts of war and church affairs with a poem , such as The Battle of Brunanburh . . Brief extracts will illustrate the manner of making this famous history : - A.D. 802. This year on the 13th before the ...
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... imagination and deep feeling , mystical in his re- ligious ideas , but keen and practical when dealing with every - day life . Like many another , he had trouble with theology . " The more I muse there - inne , the mistier it seem- eth ...
... imagination and deep feeling , mystical in his re- ligious ideas , but keen and practical when dealing with every - day life . Like many another , he had trouble with theology . " The more I muse there - inne , the mistier it seem- eth ...
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... imagination . The Travels was a new departure in English literature . Hitherto prose had served the purposes of history and religion only . In its use as a literary instrument England was behind France , where there were already stories ...
... imagination . The Travels was a new departure in English literature . Hitherto prose had served the purposes of history and religion only . In its use as a literary instrument England was behind France , where there were already stories ...
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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.