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... turn , Cædmon was accustomed , as the harp approached him , quietly to retire with a humiliating sense of his want of skill . Having left the banqueting hall on one occasion , he went to the stable , where it was his turn to care for ...
... turn , Cædmon was accustomed , as the harp approached him , quietly to retire with a humiliating sense of his want of skill . Having left the banqueting hall on one occasion , he went to the stable , where it was his turn to care for ...
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... turn away all men from the love of vice , and to excite in them the love of , and application to , good actions . " 1 66 18. Beowulf.- The most important Anglo - Saxon poem that has descended to us is Beowulf , " a primitive epic of ...
... turn away all men from the love of vice , and to excite in them the love of , and application to , good actions . " 1 66 18. Beowulf.- The most important Anglo - Saxon poem that has descended to us is Beowulf , " a primitive epic of ...
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... turn an epistle out of Latin into English ; and I know that there were not many beyond the Humber who could do it . " 66 23. Literary Labors . With admirable tact and wisdom he set about remedying the evil . He studied Latin himself ...
... turn an epistle out of Latin into English ; and I know that there were not many beyond the Humber who could do it . " 66 23. Literary Labors . With admirable tact and wisdom he set about remedying the evil . He studied Latin himself ...
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... turn the influence of French and Italian models . But beginning about the year 1384 he walked independently in conscious strength . It was during this closing period of his busy and fruitful life that he produced his greatest work , the ...
... turn the influence of French and Italian models . But beginning about the year 1384 he walked independently in conscious strength . It was during this closing period of his busy and fruitful life that he produced his greatest work , the ...
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... turn with all tides , tack about and take advan- tage of all winds , by the quickness of his wit and invention . " 70. Lyrical Gifts . After the success of " Every Man in his Humor , " Jonson wrote , at pretty regular intervals , a ...
... turn with all tides , tack about and take advan- tage of all winds , by the quickness of his wit and invention . " 70. Lyrical Gifts . After the success of " Every Man in his Humor , " Jonson wrote , at pretty regular intervals , a ...
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Page 611 - Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith that all which we behold Is...
Page 668 - Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail That brings our friends up from the underworld; Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge; So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
Page 215 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more...
Page 609 - 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 681 - Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend? For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.
Page 616 - Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie Thy soul's immensity ; Thou best philosopher, who yet dost keep Thy heritage, thou eye among the blind That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep, Haunted for ever by the eternal Mind, — Mighty Prophet! Seer blest! On whom those truths do rest Which we are toiling all our lives to find, In darkness lost, the darkness of the grave ; Thou, over whom thy Immortality Broods like the day, a master o'er a slave, A Presence which is not to be put by...
Page 576 - Or other holy Seers that tune the sacred lyre. Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme ; How guiltless blood for guilty man was shed ; How He, who bore in heaven the second name, Had not on earth whereon to lay his Head...
Page 562 - Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride. And e'en his failings leaned to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all ; And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Page 552 - Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. '' The shepherd in ' Virgil' grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks.
Page 615 - Some fragment from his dream of human life Shaped by himself with newly-learned art; A wedding or a festival, A mourning or a funeral; And this hath now his heart...