A Short History of English Literature for Young PeopleA.C. McClurg, 1892 - 392 Seiten |
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... drama . The only other purely literary work of the thirteenth century worthy of mention is the rhymed chronicle of Robert of Gloucester , written in what has been called " Transitional English " - a step between the semi - Saxon of the ...
... drama . The only other purely literary work of the thirteenth century worthy of mention is the rhymed chronicle of Robert of Gloucester , written in what has been called " Transitional English " - a step between the semi - Saxon of the ...
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Elizabeth Stansbury Kirkland. Yet do cultivated people appreciate these strange , wild dramas of unreal life ; and the ... drama , Sir Thomas Buckhurst's " Ferrex and Porrex " ; beside a host of smaller themes . King Arthur seems to have ...
Elizabeth Stansbury Kirkland. Yet do cultivated people appreciate these strange , wild dramas of unreal life ; and the ... drama , Sir Thomas Buckhurst's " Ferrex and Porrex " ; beside a host of smaller themes . King Arthur seems to have ...
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... drama now began to assume a form somewhat dif- ferent from that of the old " Mysteries " and " Miracle Plays . " A new kind of dramas called " Moralities " came into vogue , having for their characters personages representing the ...
... drama now began to assume a form somewhat dif- ferent from that of the old " Mysteries " and " Miracle Plays . " A new kind of dramas called " Moralities " came into vogue , having for their characters personages representing the ...
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... drama in the plays of Shakespeare , whose birth took place only a few years later . Udall was head - master at Eton school , and " Ralph Royster Doyster " is supposed to have been written to be acted by his boys . One of these boys was ...
... drama in the plays of Shakespeare , whose birth took place only a few years later . Udall was head - master at Eton school , and " Ralph Royster Doyster " is supposed to have been written to be acted by his boys . One of these boys was ...
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... drama , but on the remarkable fragment which forms the " Induction " ( Introduction ) to the " Mirrour for Magistrates . " Magistrates , in this sense , means rulers - great persons- and the poem was intended to show to such , as in a ...
... drama , but on the remarkable fragment which forms the " Induction " ( Introduction ) to the " Mirrour for Magistrates . " Magistrates , in this sense , means rulers - great persons- and the poem was intended to show to such , as in a ...
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Seite 364 - But such a tide as moving seems asleep, Too full for sound and foam, When that which drew from out the boundless deep, Turns again home.
Seite 207 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
Seite 68 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Seite 252 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Seite 275 - With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread — Stitch — stitch — stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, — Would that its tone could reach the Rich ! She sang this " Song of the Shirt !
Seite 311 - Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the gate : 'To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late; And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his Gods...
Seite 251 - Than those of age, thy forehead wrapped in clouds, A leafless branch thy sceptre, and thy throne A sliding car, indebted to no wheels, But urged by storms along its slippery way, 1 love thee, all unlovely as thou seem'st, And dreaded as thou art!
Seite 169 - All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee; All Chance, Direction, which thou canst not see; All Discord, Harmony not understood; All partial Evil, universal Good : And, in spite of Pride, in erring Reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.
Seite 43 - The turtle to her mate hath told her tale. Summer is come, for every spray now springs: The hart hath hung his old head on the pale; The buck in brake his winter coat he flings ; The fishes flete with new repaired scale.
Seite 112 - Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light: But, oh ! she dances such a way— No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight.