English Language and Literary Criticism: English poetryPotter, 1882 |
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... Italian literature and Spanish literature end at the middle of the seventeenth century . Only ancient Greece , modern France , and Eng- land offer a complete series of significant monuments . " The student of English literature has ...
... Italian literature and Spanish literature end at the middle of the seventeenth century . Only ancient Greece , modern France , and Eng- land offer a complete series of significant monuments . " The student of English literature has ...
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... Italian language , the first that made it aspire to be a treas- ure - house of science were the poets Dante , Boccaccio , and Petrarch . So in our English were Gower and Chaucer : after whom , encouraged and delighted with their ...
... Italian language , the first that made it aspire to be a treas- ure - house of science were the poets Dante , Boccaccio , and Petrarch . So in our English were Gower and Chaucer : after whom , encouraged and delighted with their ...
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... Italy , where it had doubtless lain unknown for a thousand years . In both these books are poems written by one Cynewulf , supposed to have been a bishop of Lindisfarne , who died in A.D. 780. Throughout these poems there is a ...
... Italy , where it had doubtless lain unknown for a thousand years . In both these books are poems written by one Cynewulf , supposed to have been a bishop of Lindisfarne , who died in A.D. 780. Throughout these poems there is a ...
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... Italian ; and from these latter many English translations and para- phrases were made . In the reign of John , a French version of the Romance of Alexander was composed , con- taining altogether about 20,000 twelve - syllabled lines ...
... Italian ; and from these latter many English translations and para- phrases were made . In the reign of John , a French version of the Romance of Alexander was composed , con- taining altogether about 20,000 twelve - syllabled lines ...
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... Italian opera ; his scamps pro- pound philosophical antitheses as balanced as those of Pope . A hundred times ambition , glory , envy , despair , and the other abstract personages whose images in the time of the First Empire the French ...
... Italian opera ; his scamps pro- pound philosophical antitheses as balanced as those of Pope . A hundred times ambition , glory , envy , despair , and the other abstract personages whose images in the time of the First Empire the French ...
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Seite 386 - Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me : — ' Pipe a song about a lamb : ' So I piped with merry cheer. ' Piper, pipe that song again : ' So I piped ; he wept to hear.
Seite 359 - Those are Grecian ghosts, that in battle were slain And unburied remain Inglorious on the plain : Give the vengeance due To the valiant crew ! Behold how they toss their torches on high, How they point to the Persian abodes And glittering temples of their hostile gods.
Seite 545 - IT WAS many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of ANNABEL LEE; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.
Seite 313 - Only with speeches fair She woos the gentle air To hide her guilty front with innocent snow, And on her naked shame, Pollute with sinful blame, The saintly veil of maiden white to throw; Confounded, that her Maker's eyes Should look so near upon her foul deformities.
Seite 375 - 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.
Seite 460 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Seite 544 - or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore; But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping, And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you" — here I opened wide the door — Darkness there and nothing more.
Seite 348 - Her home is on the deep. With thunders from her native oak, She quells the floods below, — As they roar on the shore, When the stormy winds do blow, When the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow.
Seite 332 - Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight. I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints.
Seite 346 - Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go mark him well...