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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... lish men and women have good reason to be proud of the work done by their forefathers in prose and poetry . Every one who can write a good book or a good song may say to himself , I belong to a great company which has been teach- ing ...
... lish men and women have good reason to be proud of the work done by their forefathers in prose and poetry . Every one who can write a good book or a good song may say to himself , I belong to a great company which has been teach- ing ...
Side 23
... lish . Wherever , then , in this Lesson and in the three or four following , Mr. Brooke uses English to designate either the language or the literature before 1066 or even 1150 , we suggest that Anglo - Saxon be substituted for it by ...
... lish . Wherever , then , in this Lesson and in the three or four following , Mr. Brooke uses English to designate either the language or the literature before 1066 or even 1150 , we suggest that Anglo - Saxon be substituted for it by ...
Side 32
... lish style , and he did this that he might teach his people . He translated the popular manuals of the time into English , but he edited them with large additions of his own , needful , as he thought , for English use . He gave his ...
... lish style , and he did this that he might teach his people . He translated the popular manuals of the time into English , but he edited them with large additions of his own , needful , as he thought , for English use . He gave his ...
Side 34
... It is the Eng- lish Chronicle , and in it the literature is continuous from Alfred to Stephen . At first it was nothing but a record of the births and deaths of bishops and kings , and 34 Literature of Period I. , 670-1066 .
... It is the Eng- lish Chronicle , and in it the literature is continuous from Alfred to Stephen . At first it was nothing but a record of the births and deaths of bishops and kings , and 34 Literature of Period I. , 670-1066 .
Side 35
... lish poetry in any extended form appears again in the Brut of Layamon . It is not till the reign of Edward the Third that original English prose again begins . " 6 " Taking the Chronicle as a whole , I know not where else to find a ...
... lish poetry in any extended form appears again in the Brut of Layamon . It is not till the reign of Edward the Third that original English prose again begins . " 6 " Taking the Chronicle as a whole , I know not where else to find a ...
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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