Outline History of English and American Literature: For Use in Colleges and SchoolsAmerican Book Company, 1900 - 552 pages |
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... true one , unless in a blind study of surroundings the fact that literary productions are primarily creations of the art impulse is entirely lost sight of , in which case , indeed , the study of literature might be reduced to barren ...
... true one , unless in a blind study of surroundings the fact that literary productions are primarily creations of the art impulse is entirely lost sight of , in which case , indeed , the study of literature might be reduced to barren ...
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... true , because the great men are also conditioned by their surroundings , although not entirely subject to them . The more we know about the Elizabethan period , for example , the better we understand Shakespeare ; nor is our admiration ...
... true , because the great men are also conditioned by their surroundings , although not entirely subject to them . The more we know about the Elizabethan period , for example , the better we understand Shakespeare ; nor is our admiration ...
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... true word set together And the three books Compressed into one . " The poem extends to fifty - six hundred lines without much plan . The stories of Lear and Cymbeline are re- hearsed ; the death or " passing " of Arthur is finely told ...
... true word set together And the three books Compressed into one . " The poem extends to fifty - six hundred lines without much plan . The stories of Lear and Cymbeline are re- hearsed ; the death or " passing " of Arthur is finely told ...
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... true in humanity make us believe that had he lived two hundred . years later in England's great dramatic period , Shake- speare would not have been without a formidable rival , though he might still have remained without a peer ...
... true in humanity make us believe that had he lived two hundred . years later in England's great dramatic period , Shake- speare would not have been without a formidable rival , though he might still have remained without a peer ...
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... true inventor of modern printing . Certainly , in connection with John Faust he produced the first handsomely printed book , — the famous " Mazarin Bible " in Latin , in 1456. It is amusing to learn that even at that day the relation be ...
... true inventor of modern printing . Certainly , in connection with John Faust he produced the first handsomely printed book , — the famous " Mazarin Bible " in Latin , in 1456. It is amusing to learn that even at that day the relation be ...
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Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.