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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... Moral - Plays ... 122 The Drama . Interludes .. The Regular Drama ... 124 The Theatre ...... Lyly and Marlowe .... 126 Shakespeare ..... 123 124 103 104 Ben Jonson .... Extract from Jonson .. 139 His Masques ....... 146 Beaumont and ...
... Moral - Plays ... 122 The Drama . Interludes .. The Regular Drama ... 124 The Theatre ...... Lyly and Marlowe .... 126 Shakespeare ..... 123 124 103 104 Ben Jonson .... Extract from Jonson .. 139 His Masques ....... 146 Beaumont and ...
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... moral philosophy in Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy ; a uni- versal history , with geographical chapters of his own , in the History of Orosius ; a history of England in Bada's History , giving to some details a West Saxon form ...
... moral philosophy in Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy ; a uni- versal history , with geographical chapters of his own , in the History of Orosius ; a history of England in Bada's History , giving to some details a West Saxon form ...
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... moral bent of Elfred's mind was seen in some of the novelties of his legislation . The Ten Commandments and a por- tion of the Law of Moses were prefixed to his code , and thus became part of the law of the land . Labor on Sundays and ...
... moral bent of Elfred's mind was seen in some of the novelties of his legislation . The Ten Commandments and a por- tion of the Law of Moses were prefixed to his code , and thus became part of the law of the land . Labor on Sundays and ...
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... moral . Partly the religious and social reformer and partly the story - teller , he represents a transition , and fills up the intellectual space between Lang- land and Chaucer . In the church of St. Saviour , at South- wark , his head ...
... moral . Partly the religious and social reformer and partly the story - teller , he represents a transition , and fills up the intellectual space between Lang- land and Chaucer . In the church of St. Saviour , at South- wark , his head ...
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... moral object , and nothing can be duller than the form in which he puts his tales . The author of Piers the Plowman wrote with the object of reform in social and ecclesi- astical affairs , and his form is uncouth and harsh . Chaucer ...
... moral object , and nothing can be duller than the form in which he puts his tales . The author of Piers the Plowman wrote with the object of reform in social and ecclesi- astical affairs , and his form is uncouth and harsh . Chaucer ...
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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.