Outline History of English and American Literature: For Use in Colleges and SchoolsAmerican Book Company, 1900 - 552 Seiten |
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... questions of duty , destiny , fate , and the sig- nificance of human character , which are the same in all periods . Furthermore , the æsthetic element or the rela- tion of the work to the principles of the beautiful is found in all ...
... questions of duty , destiny , fate , and the sig- nificance of human character , which are the same in all periods . Furthermore , the æsthetic element or the rela- tion of the work to the principles of the beautiful is found in all ...
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... questions of thought or on questions of form or on the relation of matter to form , seeks to discover why a given production is read with pleasure . Literature in this view is one of the social forces of the world , molding character ...
... questions of thought or on questions of form or on the relation of matter to form , seeks to discover why a given production is read with pleasure . Literature in this view is one of the social forces of the world , molding character ...
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... question that cannot be answered with precision because literary genius is so subtle . The answer to the question will depend largely on the admira- tion for the qualities of one race or the other felt by the writer . It is at least ...
... question that cannot be answered with precision because literary genius is so subtle . The answer to the question will depend largely on the admira- tion for the qualities of one race or the other felt by the writer . It is at least ...
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... question thyself any longer . ' ' It is easily done , ' said Bede , ' take thy pen and write quickly . ' Amid tears and fare- wells the day wore on to eventide . There is yet one sentence 6 6 unwritten , dear Master , ' said the boy ...
... question thyself any longer . ' ' It is easily done , ' said Bede , ' take thy pen and write quickly . ' Amid tears and fare- wells the day wore on to eventide . There is yet one sentence 6 6 unwritten , dear Master , ' said the boy ...
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... QUESTIONS What traits have been contributed by the Saxon and the Celt re- spectively to the English character ? What qualities to the literature ? Show by examples how literature , especially primitive literature , is an exponent and ...
... QUESTIONS What traits have been contributed by the Saxon and the Celt re- spectively to the English character ? What qualities to the literature ? Show by examples how literature , especially primitive literature , is an exponent and ...
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Seite 211 - CYRIAC, this three years' day, these eyes, though clear, To outward view, of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot ; Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman.
Seite 467 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way...
Seite 339 - 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...
Seite 168 - QUEEN and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light, Goddess excellently bright. Earth, let not thy envious shade Dare itself to interpose; Cynthia's shining orb was made Heaven to clear when day did close: Bless us then with wished sight, Goddess excellently bright.
Seite 156 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Seite 179 - The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet Spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My music shows ye have your closes, And all must die.
Seite 509 - But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff, And a crook is in his back, And a melancholy crack In his laugh. I know it is a sin For me to sit and grin At him here ; But the old three-cornered hat, And the breeches, and all that, Are so queer...
Seite 339 - Peace, peace ! he is not dead, he doth not sleep — He hath awakened from the dream of life — 'Tis we, who, lost in stormy visions, keep With phantoms an unprofitable strife, And in mad trance strike with our spirit's knife Invulnerable nothings.
Seite 213 - Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, , Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Seite 508 - Fifty-five! This morning the parson takes a drive. Now, small boys, get out of the way! Here comes the wonderful one-hoss shay, Drawn by a rat-tailed, ewe-necked bay. "Huddup!" said the parson. Off went they. The parson was working his Sunday's text, Had got to fifthly, and stopped perplexed At what the -Moses - was coming next. All at once the horse stood still, Close by the meet'n'-house on the hill First a shiver, and then a thrill, Then something decidedly like a spill.