English Literature: Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-speaking World : a Text-book for SchoolsGinn, 1909 - 582 Seiten |
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... young people . First , the amount of space here given to different periods and authors is not an index of the relative amount of time to be spent upon the different subjects . Thus , to tell the story of Spenser's life and ideals ...
... young people . First , the amount of space here given to different periods and authors is not an index of the relative amount of time to be spent upon the different subjects . Thus , to tell the story of Spenser's life and ideals ...
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... young person will get out of the Merchant of Venice , and some- how arrive at Shakespeare's opinion of Shylock and Portia , if we do not bother him too much with notes and critical direc- tions as to what he ought to seek and find ...
... young person will get out of the Merchant of Venice , and some- how arrive at Shakespeare's opinion of Shylock and Portia , if we do not bother him too much with notes and critical direc- tions as to what he ought to seek and find ...
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... young people in our schools bears the same relation to true literature that theol- ogy bears to religion , or psychology to friendship . One is a more or less unwelcome mental discipline ; the other is the joy of life . - The writer ...
... young people in our schools bears the same relation to true literature that theol- ogy bears to religion , or psychology to friendship . One is a more or less unwelcome mental discipline ; the other is the joy of life . - The writer ...
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... Young maidens came and sang me to my death ; The moon looks down and sees me in my shroud , The shroud of my last dew . Yesterday's flowers that are yet in me Must needs make way for all to - morrow's flowers . The maidens , too , that ...
... Young maidens came and sang me to my death ; The moon looks down and sees me in my shroud , The shroud of my last dew . Yesterday's flowers that are yet in me Must needs make way for all to - morrow's flowers . The maidens , too , that ...
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... young Biron as speaking - In such apt and gracious words That aged ears play truant at his tales , he has unconsciously given not only an excellent description of himself , but the measure of all literature , which makes us play truant ...
... young Biron as speaking - In such apt and gracious words That aged ears play truant at his tales , he has unconsciously given not only an excellent description of himself , but the measure of all literature , which makes us play truant ...
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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...