English Literature: Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-speaking World : a Text-book for SchoolsGinn, 1909 - 582 Seiten |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-5 von 100
Seite 2
... chief thing ; to analyze and explain them is a less joyous but still an important matter . Behind every book is a man ; behind the man is the race ; and behind the race are the natural and social environments whose influence is ...
... chief thing ; to analyze and explain them is a less joyous but still an important matter . Behind every book is a man ; behind the man is the race ; and behind the race are the natural and social environments whose influence is ...
Seite 7
... chief , whom they chose for themselves and hoisted on their shields in symbol of his leadership . Once more we grow respectful in the presence of pure womanhood , or melancholy before the sorrows and problems of life , or humbly ...
... chief , whom they chose for themselves and hoisted on their shields in symbol of his leadership . Once more we grow respectful in the presence of pure womanhood , or melancholy before the sorrows and problems of life , or humbly ...
Seite 12
... chief religious motive of the epic . In line 1056 we find a curious blending of pagan and Christian belief , where Wyrd is withstood by the " wise God . " 2 Summary of 11. 710-727 . We have not indicated in our translation ( or in quota ...
... chief religious motive of the epic . In line 1056 we find a curious blending of pagan and Christian belief , where Wyrd is withstood by the " wise God . " 2 Summary of 11. 710-727 . We have not indicated in our translation ( or in quota ...
Seite 15
... chief . He fills his hands with costly ornaments and hurries to throw them at his hero's feet . The old man looks with sorrow at the gold , thanks the " Lord of all " that by death he has gained more riches for his people , and tells ...
... chief . He fills his hands with costly ornaments and hurries to throw them at his hero's feet . The old man looks with sorrow at the gold , thanks the " Lord of all " that by death he has gained more riches for his people , and tells ...
Seite 16
... chief's fall , praised him , of kings , of men The mildest and the kindest , and to all His people gentlest , yearning for their praise.1 One is tempted to linger over the details of the magnificent ending : the unselfish heroism of ...
... chief's fall , praised him , of kings , of men The mildest and the kindest , and to all His people gentlest , yearning for their praise.1 One is tempted to linger over the details of the magnificent ending : the unselfish heroism of ...
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
English Literature: Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the ... William Joseph Long Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2015 |
English Literature: Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the ... William Joseph Long Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2018 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Addison Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxon literature Athenæum Press ballads beauty Ben Jonson Beowulf Bunyan Byron Cædmon called Canterbury Tales Carlyle century characters Chaucer chief church Coleridge Criticism Cynewulf death delight Dickens drama dramatists dream Dryden early edited Elizabethan England English Literature English Poetry English Prose Essays Everyman's Library expression exquisite Faery Queen famous French French Revolution Gawain genius George Eliot hero human humor ideals influence interest Jane Austen Johnson Keats King language Letters literary living London lyric Macaulay melody Milton modern moral nature never noble novelists novels period Piers Plowman plays poems poet poet's poetic political popular published Puritan reader religious romantic romantic poetry Romanticism Ruskin satire Scott Selections Series Shakespeare Shelley songs soul Spenser spirit Standard English Classics story struggle style suggests Swift Tennyson Thackeray things thought tion tragedy translation verse vols Wordsworth writers written wrote
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 326 - I'll ne'er blame my partial fancy: Naething could resist my Nancy! But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love for ever. Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met — or never parted — We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Seite 421 - Homer ruled as his demesne ; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold : Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He...
Seite 216 - Is this the region, this the soil, the clime," Said then the lost Archangel, " this the seat That we must change for Heaven? — this mournful gloom For that celestial light ? Be...
Seite 462 - Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me ! And may there be no moaning of the bar, When I put out to sea...
Seite 211 - Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue ; she alone is free. She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her.
Seite 140 - I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool, With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news ; Who, with his shears and measure in his hand, Standing on slippers, (which his nimble haste Had falsely thrust upon contrary feet) Told of a many thousand warlike French, That were embattailed and rank'd in Kent.
Seite 410 - Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is: What if my leaves are falling like its own! The tumult of thy mighty harmonies Will take from both a deep, autumnal tone, Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, spirit fierce, My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one!
Seite 225 - Then I saw that there was a way to hell, even from the gates of heaven, as well as from the city of Destruction.
Seite 247 - A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high, He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. * Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ; JOHN DRYDEN Else, why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest?
Seite 251 - For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints, whom all men grant To be the true church militant ; Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun ; Decide all controversies by Infallible artillery ; And prove their doctrine orthodox By apostolic blows and knocks...