English LiteratureScott, Foresman, 1905 - 452 pages A textbook for English Literature covering the Old, Middle, and Modern English Periods. Also contains notes and chronology charts on both principal and minor authors. |
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Page 37
... popular , and the legend spread even to Germany and Italy . King Arthur in particular rose to the rank of a national hero and speedily became the centre of a large cycle of knightly tales . The ancient prophecies of Merlin ; the stories ...
... popular , and the legend spread even to Germany and Italy . King Arthur in particular rose to the rank of a national hero and speedily became the centre of a large cycle of knightly tales . The ancient prophecies of Merlin ; the stories ...
Page 38
... popular songs , of course , never ceased to thrive . Then , contem- poraneously , as it happened , with the political separation from Normandy in 1204 , and only ten years before John was forced to sign the Great Charter of English ...
... popular songs , of course , never ceased to thrive . Then , contem- poraneously , as it happened , with the political separation from Normandy in 1204 , and only ten years before John was forced to sign the Great Charter of English ...
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... popular hero is only natural , since the condition of the times gave not a little excuse to those patriotic Englishmen who took refuge from a hard forest - law in secret or open outlawry . The Owl and the Nightingale , a poem of almost ...
... popular hero is only natural , since the condition of the times gave not a little excuse to those patriotic Englishmen who took refuge from a hard forest - law in secret or open outlawry . The Owl and the Nightingale , a poem of almost ...
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... popularity in its day . Moreover , it is the oldest book of English prose that is not primarily historical or theological , but literary , that is to say , written and read for entertainment as well as instruction . For while the book ...
... popularity in its day . Moreover , it is the oldest book of English prose that is not primarily historical or theological , but literary , that is to say , written and read for entertainment as well as instruction . For while the book ...
Page 46
... vehicle of the Holy Scriptures , was to give it thenceforth unques- tionable dignity and power . Wyclif had a powerful contemporary , really a forerunner , in the work of assisting the popular reaction against the. 46 FOURTEENTH CENTURY.
... vehicle of the Holy Scriptures , was to give it thenceforth unques- tionable dignity and power . Wyclif had a powerful contemporary , really a forerunner , in the work of assisting the popular reaction against the. 46 FOURTEENTH CENTURY.
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Page 251 - I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky ; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores ; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain when with never a stain, The pavilion of heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams, Build up the blue dome of air, I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again.
Page 124 - Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth rise Doth ask a drink divine; But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine.
Page 107 - When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries And look upon myself and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd, Desiring this man's art and that man's scope...
Page 246 - I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me; and to me, High mountains are a feeling, but the hum Of human cities torture...
Page 250 - To suffer woes which hope thinks infinite ; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night ; To defy power which seems omnipotent ; To love and bear ; to hope till hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates...
Page 373 - When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces, The mother of months in meadow or plain Fills the shadows and windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain ; And the brown bright nightingale amorous Is half assuaged for Itylus, For the Thracian ships and the foreign faces, The tongueless vigil, and all the pain.
Page 393 - For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. 30 And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Page 382 - REQUIEM UNDER the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be ; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill.
Page 393 - His Lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed ; thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
Page 246 - Yet must I think less wildly : — I have thought Too long and darkly, till my brain became, In its own eddy boiling and o'erwrought, A whirling gulf of phantasy and flame : And thus, untaught in youth my heart to tame, My springs of life were poison'd.