A History of English Literature; a Practical Text-bookThomas Y. Crowell, 1923 - 542 pages |
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... represents the growth of some five hundred years , we see that the rate of progress is undoubtedly slow . We shall take the poetical and prose forms separately . 1. Poetry . Poetry is much earlier in the field , and its development is ...
... represents the growth of some five hundred years , we see that the rate of progress is undoubtedly slow . We shall take the poetical and prose forms separately . 1. Poetry . Poetry is much earlier in the field , and its development is ...
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... representing the lighter joys of life , and the owl , which stands for wisdom and sobriety . The poem is among the most lively of its kind , and the argu- ment tends to become heated . In meter it is rhyming octo- syllabic couplets ...
... representing the lighter joys of life , and the owl , which stands for wisdom and sobriety . The poem is among the most lively of its kind , and the argu- ment tends to become heated . In meter it is rhyming octo- syllabic couplets ...
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... represents the ruder type of the Scottish Chaucerian . He has a coarseness be- yond the standard even of his day ; but he cannot be de- nied a bluff good - humor , a sound honesty of opinion , and an abundant and vital energy . ( c ) ...
... represents the ruder type of the Scottish Chaucerian . He has a coarseness be- yond the standard even of his day ; but he cannot be de- nied a bluff good - humor , a sound honesty of opinion , and an abundant and vital energy . ( c ) ...
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... represents a newer type of allegory . The figures in the poem are not the usual wooden creatures representing the common vices and virtues , but they are sharply satirical portraits of the various kinds of foolish men . Sometimes ...
... represents a newer type of allegory . The figures in the poem are not the usual wooden creatures representing the common vices and virtues , but they are sharply satirical portraits of the various kinds of foolish men . Sometimes ...
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... represented by The Chronicle of England of Capgrave ( 1393-1464 ) , who wrote in a businesslike fashion ; a species of philosophical prose appeared in The Gover- nance of England of Fortescue ( 1394-1476 ) , and in The Boke named the ...
... represented by The Chronicle of England of Capgrave ( 1393-1464 ) , who wrote in a businesslike fashion ; a species of philosophical prose appeared in The Gover- nance of England of Fortescue ( 1394-1476 ) , and in The Boke named the ...
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Page 448 - twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane— as I do here.
Page 202 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul, All the images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Page 259 - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Page 184 - Our two souls, therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two: Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth if th
Page 392 - He has outsoared the shadow of our night; Envy and calumny and hate and pain, And that unrest which men miscall delight, Can touch him not and torture not again...
Page 224 - Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries. The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time hath made...
Page 562 - 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 137 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Page 165 - For, so to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise; Ay me ! whilst thee the shores and sounding seas Wash far away, where'er thy bones are hurled; Whether beyond the stormy Hebrides, Where thou perhaps under the whelming tide Visit'st the bottom of the monstrous world...
Page 295 - In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs, — and God has given my share, — I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down ; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose.