A History of English Literature, in a Series of Biographical SketchesT. Nelson and Sons, 1862 - 538 pagina's |
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Pagina 18
... poetic legends of his country ; and when , grown more skilful , he learned to string into rude verses the story of his ... poem ; the former being used for the ordinary narrative , and the latter adopted when the CAEDMON , THE MONK OF ...
... poetic legends of his country ; and when , grown more skilful , he learned to string into rude verses the story of his ... poem ; the former being used for the ordinary narrative , and the latter adopted when the CAEDMON , THE MONK OF ...
Pagina 19
... poems that have come down to us are the Romance of Beowulf , and Caedmon's Paraphrase . Beowulf is a nameless poem of more than 6000 lines , thought to be much older than the manuscript of it which we possess . Its hero , BEOWULF , is a ...
... poems that have come down to us are the Romance of Beowulf , and Caedmon's Paraphrase . Beowulf is a nameless poem of more than 6000 lines , thought to be much older than the manuscript of it which we possess . Its hero , BEOWULF , is a ...
Pagina 20
... poems , which still survive , are the Battle of Finsborough ; the Traveller's Song , which contains a good many geographical names ; and the fragment of Judith . In the Saxon Chronicle of 938 we find a poem called Athelstan's Song of ...
... poems , which still survive , are the Battle of Finsborough ; the Traveller's Song , which contains a good many geographical names ; and the fragment of Judith . In the Saxon Chronicle of 938 we find a poem called Athelstan's Song of ...
Pagina 32
... poets of English birth soon took up this foreign strain , and wrote lays in Norman - French . The deeds of Alexander ... poem , that is , the introduction of supernatural beings as actors in the drama , becomes wild and fanciful ...
... poets of English birth soon took up this foreign strain , and wrote lays in Norman - French . The deeds of Alexander ... poem , that is , the introduction of supernatural beings as actors in the drama , becomes wild and fanciful ...
Pagina 33
... poets is Master Wace , as he calls himself , who was born probably at Jersey about 1112. He was educated at Caen ... poem is the minute account of the battle of Has- tings . Wace , who became Canon of Bayeux on the recommendation of ...
... poets is Master Wace , as he calls himself , who was born probably at Jersey about 1112. He was educated at Caen ... poem is the minute account of the battle of Has- tings . Wace , who became Canon of Bayeux on the recommendation of ...
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Pagina 493 - Kent. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
Pagina 149 - Made by the joiner squirrel, or old grub, Time out of mind the fairies' coach-makers. And in this state she gallops night by night Through lovers...
Pagina 148 - Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses, Or else worth all the rest; I see thee still, And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood, Which was not so before. There's no such thing: It is the bloody business which informs Thus to mine eyes.
Pagina 392 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests ; in all time, — Calm or convulsed, in breeze or gale or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving — boundless, endless, and sublime, The image of eternity, the throne Of the Invisible ; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made ; each zone Obeys thee ; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Pagina 209 - The other Shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb ; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either — black it stood as Night, 670 Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart : what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Pagina 211 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy ; will not drive us hence : Here we may reign secure, and, in my choice, To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven...
Pagina 378 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Pagina 391 - And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee and arbiter of war,— These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride or spoils of Trafalgar.
Pagina 363 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
Pagina 210 - Is this the region, this the soil, the clime," Said then the lost Archangel, "this the seat That we must change for Heaven ? this mournful gloom For that celestial light? Be...