A Text-book on English Literature: With Copious Extracts from the Leading Authors, English and American, with Full Instructions as to the Method in which These are to be Studied, Adapted for Use in Colleges, High Schools and AcademiesClark & Maynard, 1884 - 478 páginas |
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... Henry VIII . Prose and the Reformation ... 73 Fifteenth Century Poetry . ( Lydgate ... Occleve . Ballads , etc .. Chevy Chase . Material and Religious Condi- tion of the People , and Troubles with Spain and Ireland ..... Later ...
... Henry VIII . Prose and the Reformation ... 73 Fifteenth Century Poetry . ( Lydgate ... Occleve . Ballads , etc .. Chevy Chase . Material and Religious Condi- tion of the People , and Troubles with Spain and Ireland ..... Later ...
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... Henry Newman . 280 Theo . Extracts from [ Thackeray Macaulay .... Holmes and Ext . from .. 351 Emerson and Ext . from . 356 Hawthorne , Ext . from .. 362 The Fr. Rev. and the Poets .. 366 Crabbe , Bloomfield , Southey , and Coleridge ...
... Henry Newman . 280 Theo . Extracts from [ Thackeray Macaulay .... Holmes and Ext . from .. 351 Emerson and Ext . from . 356 Hawthorne , Ext . from .. 362 The Fr. Rev. and the Poets .. 366 Crabbe , Bloomfield , Southey , and Coleridge ...
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... Henry II . the Norman troubled himself but little about the English tongue . But when French foreigners came pouring into the land in the train of Henry and his sons , the Norman allied himself with the Englishman against these ...
... Henry II . the Norman troubled himself but little about the English tongue . But when French foreigners came pouring into the land in the train of Henry and his sons , the Norman allied himself with the Englishman against these ...
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... Henry I.'s reign the religion of England was further quickened by missionary monks sent by Bernard of Clairvaux . London was stirred to rebuild St. Paul's , and abbeys rose in all the well - watered val- leys of the North . The English ...
... Henry I.'s reign the religion of England was further quickened by missionary monks sent by Bernard of Clairvaux . London was stirred to rebuild St. Paul's , and abbeys rose in all the well - watered val- leys of the North . The English ...
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... Henry I. , called GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH , who took upon himself to write history . He had been given , he said , an ancient Welsh book to translate , which told in verse the his- tory of Britain from the days when Brut , the great ...
... Henry I. , called GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH , who took upon himself to write history . He had been given , he said , an ancient Welsh book to translate , which told in verse the his- tory of Britain from the days when Brut , the great ...
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Página 397 - THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Página 409 - Away! away! for I will fly to thee, Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards, But on the viewless wings of Poesy, Though the dull brain perplexes and retards: Already with thee ! tender is the night, And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne, Clustered around by all her starry Fays; But here there is no light, Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways.
Página 409 - Darkling I listen; and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy! Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain To thy high requiem become a sod.
Página 181 - But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began : The winds with wonder whist Smoothly the waters kissed, Whispering new joys to the mild ocean, Who now hath quite forgot to rave, While birds of calm sit brooding on the charmed wave.
Página 397 - But through it there rolled not the breath of his pride; And the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf, And cold as the spray of the rock-beating surf. And there lay the rider, distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail ; And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown.
Página 180 - With her great Master so to sympathize : It was no season then for her To wanton with the sun, her lusty paramour. Only with speeches fair She woos the gentle air To hide her guilty front with innocent snow ; And on her naked shame, Pollute with sinful blame, The saintly veil of maiden white to throw ; Confounded, that her Maker's eyes Should look so near upon her foul deformities.
Página 398 - Salamis ; And ships, by thousands, lay below, And men in nations ; — all were his ! He counted them at break of day — And when...
Página 399 - Must we but weep o'er days more blest? Must we but blush? Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead ! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae ! What, silent still? and silent all? Ah ! no : the voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's fall, And answer, 'Let one living head, But one arise, — we come, we come ! ' 'Tis but the living who are dumb.
Página 197 - ... blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure ; Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain. Soothed with the sound the king grew vain ; Fought all his battles o'er again ; And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain.
Página 340 - You will think me transported with enthusiasm, but I am not. I am well aware of the toil, and blood, and treasure that it will cost us to maintain this declaration, and support and defend these States. Yet, through all the gloom, I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory.