Introduction to English Literature: Including a Number of Classic Works, with Notes |
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... hope of establishing a kingdom on the continent , the Norman fixed his thoughts upon his island home . The valor of the Saxons on many a field of France had conquered the respect of their haughty rulers . A restraint was set upon ...
... hope of establishing a kingdom on the continent , the Norman fixed his thoughts upon his island home . The valor of the Saxons on many a field of France had conquered the respect of their haughty rulers . A restraint was set upon ...
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... hope , are found in the following lines : " Alas , howe may we say on hem but well , Of whom we were yfostered and ybore , And ben all our socoure , and trewe as stele , And for our sake ful oft they suffre sore ? Without women were al ...
... hope , are found in the following lines : " Alas , howe may we say on hem but well , Of whom we were yfostered and ybore , And ben all our socoure , and trewe as stele , And for our sake ful oft they suffre sore ? Without women were al ...
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... hope to stonden in his lady grace . Embrowded was he , as it were a mede Al ful of fresshe floures , white and reede . Syngynge he was , or floytynge , al the day ; He was as fressh as is the moneth of May . 85 90 Schort was his goune ...
... hope to stonden in his lady grace . Embrowded was he , as it were a mede Al ful of fresshe floures , white and reede . Syngynge he was , or floytynge , al the day ; He was as fressh as is the moneth of May . 85 90 Schort was his goune ...
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... Hope , sailed across the Indian Ocean to Calcutta . Voyages of discovery followed in rapid succession , new continents were added to the map , and the general store of knowledge was greatly increased . The greatest event in history ...
... Hope , sailed across the Indian Ocean to Calcutta . Voyages of discovery followed in rapid succession , new continents were added to the map , and the general store of knowledge was greatly increased . The greatest event in history ...
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... hope , to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy prince's grace , yet want her peers ' ; To have thy asking , yet wait many years ; To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares ; To eat thy heart through comfortless despairs ; To fawn ...
... hope , to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy prince's grace , yet want her peers ' ; To have thy asking , yet wait many years ; To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares ; To eat thy heart through comfortless despairs ; To fawn ...
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Page 245 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines...
Page 466 - Far, far away thy children leave the land. 50 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, "Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made : But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied.
Page 568 - Is lightened: — that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently lead us on, — Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul: While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.
Page 297 - Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine, Or what (though rare) of later age Ennobled hath the buskined stage. But, O sad virgin, that thy power Might raise Musaeus from his bower! Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what love did seek...
Page 574 - Shaped by himself with newly -learned art ; A wedding or a festival, A mourning or a funeral ; And this hath now his heart, And unto this he frames his song : Then will he fit his tongue To dialogues of business, love, or strife : But it will not be long Ere this be thrown aside. And with new joy and pride The little Actor cons another part ; Filling from time to time his
Page 569 - All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things. Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods, And mountains; and of all that we behold From this green earth; of all the mighty world Of eye, and ear, — both what they half create, And what perceive...
Page 565 - That on a wild secluded scene impress Thoughts of more deep seclusion ; and connect The landscape with the quiet of the sky.
Page 559 - These beauteous Forms., Through a long absence, have not been to me As is a landscape to a blind man's eye : But oft, in lonely rooms, and 'mid the din Of towns and cities, I have owed to them, In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart ; And passing even into my purer mind, With tranquil restoration...
Page 296 - With a sad leaden downward cast Thou fix them on the earth as fast. And join with thee calm Peace and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet, And hears the Muses in a ring Aye round about Jove's altar sing ; And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens takes his pleasure ; 50 But, first and chiefest, with thee bring Him that yon...
Page 359 - The wide, the unbounded prospect lies before me : But shadows, clouds, and darkness, rest upon it. Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.