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... tastes of the common people , who would be more easily attracted to knowledge by the jingle of verse . Ælfric wrote with the feeling of an artist , and these rhythmic homilies stand conspicuous as the last artistic ex- pression of Anglo ...
... tastes of the common people , who would be more easily attracted to knowledge by the jingle of verse . Ælfric wrote with the feeling of an artist , and these rhythmic homilies stand conspicuous as the last artistic ex- pression of Anglo ...
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... taste for romantic stories ; also as the French and English became united in a spirit of new nationality there was a natural desire to know the origin and early history of Britain . Geoffrey measured the popular taste and satisfied it ...
... taste for romantic stories ; also as the French and English became united in a spirit of new nationality there was a natural desire to know the origin and early history of Britain . Geoffrey measured the popular taste and satisfied it ...
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... tastes , and finally imitated in stories of home origin , such as Guy of Warwick , Bevis of Hamp- ton , King Horn , and Havelock the Dane . The typical romance is a long , rambling description of mar- velous adventures , with little or ...
... tastes , and finally imitated in stories of home origin , such as Guy of Warwick , Bevis of Hamp- ton , King Horn , and Havelock the Dane . The typical romance is a long , rambling description of mar- velous adventures , with little or ...
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... taste and credulity of his readers , and gave them a romance in the guise of reality more interesting than the real romances by which they had been educated . He described the wonders of all parts of the earth , known and unknown ...
... taste and credulity of his readers , and gave them a romance in the guise of reality more interesting than the real romances by which they had been educated . He described the wonders of all parts of the earth , known and unknown ...
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... tastes with those of his " Clerk of Oxenford , " who of study took " moost cure and moost heede . " The precious portrait of Chaucer , drawn in colors on Character of the margin of a manuscript poem by his devoted Chaucer follower ...
... tastes with those of his " Clerk of Oxenford , " who of study took " moost cure and moost heede . " The precious portrait of Chaucer , drawn in colors on Character of the margin of a manuscript poem by his devoted Chaucer follower ...
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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.