A Text-book on English Literature: With Copious Extracts from the Leading Authors, English and American, with Full Instructions as to the Method in which These are to be Studied, Adapted for Use in Colleges, High Schools and AcademiesClark & Maynard, 1882 - 478 sider |
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Side 17
... humor ? Has he pathetic passages ? 6. ELEGANCE . — Is the production remarkable for beauty ? If so , is the beauty in the thought ? Is it secured by the choice of euphonious words ? By beautiful imagery ? By long and flowing sentences ...
... humor ? Has he pathetic passages ? 6. ELEGANCE . — Is the production remarkable for beauty ? If so , is the beauty in the thought ? Is it secured by the choice of euphonious words ? By beautiful imagery ? By long and flowing sentences ...
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... humor , lightness , imagination , and sensibility to beauty were added to the plain and solid , but obtuse , Saxon mind . LESSON 7 . - GENERAL OUTLINE.- " The invasion of Britain by the Eng- lish made the island , its speech , and its ...
... humor , lightness , imagination , and sensibility to beauty were added to the plain and solid , but obtuse , Saxon mind . LESSON 7 . - GENERAL OUTLINE.- " The invasion of Britain by the Eng- lish made the island , its speech , and its ...
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... humorous poet of the Canterbury Tales . In the active busi- ness life he led during this period , he was likely to ... humor of these , in their vividness of por- traiture , in their ease of narration , and in 54 Literature of Period ...
... humorous poet of the Canterbury Tales . In the active busi- ness life he led during this period , he was likely to ... humor of these , in their vividness of por- traiture , in their ease of narration , and in 54 Literature of Period ...
Side 55
... humor- ous , and satirical without unkindness ; sensitive to every change of feeling in himself and others , and therefore full of sym- pathy ; brave in misfortune , even to mirth , and doing well and with careful honesty all he ...
... humor- ous , and satirical without unkindness ; sensitive to every change of feeling in himself and others , and therefore full of sym- pathy ; brave in misfortune , even to mirth , and doing well and with careful honesty all he ...
Side 57
... humor is broad , sometimes sly , sometimes gay , sometimes he brings tears into our eyes , and he can make us smile or be sad as he pleases . He had a very fine ear for the music of verse , and the tale and the verse go together like ...
... humor is broad , sometimes sly , sometimes gay , sometimes he brings tears into our eyes , and he can make us smile or be sad as he pleases . He had a very fine ear for the music of verse , and the tale and the verse go together like ...
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ballads beauty began Ben Jonson Beowulf Cædmon called Canterbury Tales century characters Chaucer Church criticism death delight drama Edward III Elizabethan England English literature English poetry English prose Essays eyes Faerie Queen feeling French genius GEORGE GASCOIGNE Greek hath heart Henry Henry VIII human humor imitated influence John king language Latin Layamon learning LESSON light lish literary lived look Lord Milton mind moral nature never noble Ormulum Paradise Lost passion plays pleasure poem poetic poets political Pope Puritan Quar Queen reign religion religious Roman satire scenery Scotland Scottish Sejanus Shakespeare songs sonnets soul Spenser spirit story style sweet thee things thou thought tion tongue took translation truth unto verse Ward's Anthology whole William William Minto words writing written wrote