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... followed the Norman Conquest , we shall find that our literature is enriched by two classes of works - romances , or the stories of individual life , and chronicles , or stories of the nation's life . Before we speak of these books ...
... followed the Norman Conquest , we shall find that our literature is enriched by two classes of works - romances , or the stories of individual life , and chronicles , or stories of the nation's life . Before we speak of these books ...
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... followed by his successor . The Kelts prided themselves on being the ancient race of this country , so Geoffrey made their first king to be the great - grandson of Æneas , Prince of Troy . He called him Brut , for Brutus is a name which ...
... followed by his successor . The Kelts prided themselves on being the ancient race of this country , so Geoffrey made their first king to be the great - grandson of Æneas , Prince of Troy . He called him Brut , for Brutus is a name which ...
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... followed it himself . " With the parson is his brother , a ploughman , as good and true a workman in his calling as the parson . He loves God with all his heart , and his neighbour as himself . He often worked for a poor man without ...
... followed it himself . " With the parson is his brother , a ploughman , as good and true a workman in his calling as the parson . He loves God with all his heart , and his neighbour as himself . He often worked for a poor man without ...
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... followed by others , each story being of course appropriate to the kind of person telling it . It is at length the turn of the Oxford student , who tells the story of Grisildis , a tale he had heard , he says , from Petrarch , the poet ...
... followed by others , each story being of course appropriate to the kind of person telling it . It is at length the turn of the Oxford student , who tells the story of Grisildis , a tale he had heard , he says , from Petrarch , the poet ...
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... followed in the same line . Poetry does not only live in great poems ; the daily common life , even of the poorest , is often full of the sweetest poetry ; and there are a great number of persons who can clearly see this , and note it ...
... followed in the same line . Poetry does not only live in great poems ; the daily common life , even of the poorest , is often full of the sweetest poetry ; and there are a great number of persons who can clearly see this , and note it ...
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Page 249 - Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe, and pale jessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freaked with jet, The glowing violet, The musk-rose, and the well-attired woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears; Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffodillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.
Page 244 - Unsavoury in the enjoyment of itself ; If you let slip time, like a neglected rose It withers on the stalk with languished head. Beauty is Nature's brag, and must be shown. In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, Where most may wonder at the workmanship ; It is for homely features to keep home, They had their name thence ; coarse complexions, And cheeks of sorry grain, will serve to ply The sampler, and to tease the housewife's wool.
Page 263 - Old Law did save, And such as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind.
Page 243 - Yea, even that which Mischief meant most harm Shall in the happy trial prove most glory. But evil on itself shall back recoil, And mix no more with goodness...
Page 248 - ... devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 287 - Henceforth I learn, that to obey is best, And love, with fear, the only God ; to walk As in his presence, ever to observe His providence, and on him sole depend...
Page 342 - At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame; The sweet enthusiast from her sacred store Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With Nature's mother-wit and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown : He raised a mortal to the skies; She drew an angel down.
Page 220 - Fair daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon: As yet the early-rising sun Has not attained his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the evensong; And, having prayed together, we Will go with you along. » We have short time to stay as you; We have as short a spring; As quick a growth to meet decay, As you or anything. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away Like to the summer's rain; Or as the pearls of morning's dew, Ne'er to be found again.
Page 466 - Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.
Page 486 - They moved in tracks of shining white, And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich attire: Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, They coiled and swam ; and every track Was a flash of golden fire.