English LiteratureHarcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920 - 452 páginas |
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... scholarly period of the Reformation , the golden days of Good Queen Bess , the more sedate period of Puritanism , then the long epoch of classical traditions under the three successive literary leaders , Dryden , Pope , and Johnson ...
... scholarly period of the Reformation , the golden days of Good Queen Bess , the more sedate period of Puritanism , then the long epoch of classical traditions under the three successive literary leaders , Dryden , Pope , and Johnson ...
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... scholar , often spoken of as the " Venerable Bede , " wrote a great many works in Latin , including an important Ecclesiastical History of the English People . His only work in English was a trans- lation of the Gospel of St. John , but ...
... scholar , often spoken of as the " Venerable Bede , " wrote a great many works in Latin , including an important Ecclesiastical History of the English People . His only work in English was a trans- lation of the Gospel of St. John , but ...
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... scholar who lived during the latter part of the eighth century . He seems to have known the favor of princes in his time and to have reached a ripe age that became somewhat burden- some to him . He inserted his signature in runes , or ...
... scholar who lived during the latter part of the eighth century . He seems to have known the favor of princes in his time and to have reached a ripe age that became somewhat burden- some to him . He inserted his signature in runes , or ...
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... scholars from abroad and en- couraged the study of Latin . But he was not satisfied merely to restore the learning that had flourished earlier in the quiet retreat of the Christian sanctuaries . He wished to bring the wisdom of the ...
... scholars from abroad and en- couraged the study of Latin . But he was not satisfied merely to restore the learning that had flourished earlier in the quiet retreat of the Christian sanctuaries . He wished to bring the wisdom of the ...
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... scholars from the schools of Paris and elsewhere to bring about a closer union between the learned group at Oxford and on the Continent . Through these scholars England got its first acquaintance with the learning of the East which ...
... scholars from the schools of Paris and elsewhere to bring about a closer union between the learned group at Oxford and on the Continent . Through these scholars England got its first acquaintance with the learning of the East which ...
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Página 314 - The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends on me; my spirit's bark is driven, Far from the shore, far from the trembling throng Whose sails were never to the tempest given; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven! I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar; Whilst burning through the inmost veil of Heaven, The soul of Adonais, like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are.
Página 162 - 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 fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th
Página 126 - If all the pens that ever poets held Had fed the feeling of their masters' thoughts, And every sweetness that inspired their hearts, Their minds and muses on admired themes; If all the heavenly quintessence they still From their immortal flowers of poesy, Wherein as in a mirror we perceive The highest reaches of a human wit; If these had made one poem's period...
Página 148 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O, no ! it is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Página 253 - O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers! Whence are thy beams, O sun! thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth, in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave. But thou thyself movest alone: who can be a companion of thy course!
Página 276 - Heaven lies about us in our infancy. Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy; But he beholds the light and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy. The youth who daily farther from the East Must travel, still is Nature's priest, And, by the vision splendid, Is on his way attended. At length the man perceives it die away And fade into the light of common day.
Página 278 - Performed all kinds of labour for his sheep, And for the land, his small inheritance. And to that hollow dell from time to time Did he repair, to build the fold of which His flock had need.
Página 146 - Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on ; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
Página 241 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Página 280 - Come back into memory, like as thou wert in the dayspring of thy fancies, with hope like a fiery column before thee — the dark pillar not yet turned — Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Logician, Metaphysician, Bard ! How have I seen the casual passer through the cloisters stand still, entranced with admiration, (while he weighed the disproportion between the speech and the garb of the young Mirandula,) to hear thee unfold, in thy deep and sweet intonations, the mysteries of...