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 27
... scenery among which it was written . In it also the old , fierce , war element is felt when Cædmon comes to sing the wrath of the rebel angels with God and the overthrow of Pharaoh's host , and the lines , repeating , as was the old ...
... scenery among which it was written . In it also the old , fierce , war element is felt when Cædmon comes to sing the wrath of the rebel angels with God and the overthrow of Pharaoh's host , and the lines , repeating , as was the old ...
Side 29
... scenery . They are sorrowful when they speak of the life of men , tender when they touch on the love of home , as tender as this little bit which still lives for us out of that old world : ' Dear is the welcome guest to the Frisian wife ...
... scenery . They are sorrowful when they speak of the life of men , tender when they touch on the love of home , as tender as this little bit which still lives for us out of that old world : ' Dear is the welcome guest to the Frisian wife ...
Side 56
... scenery which is so special a mark of the later poets . He lived thus a double life , in and out of the world , but never a gloomy one . For he was fond of mirth and good - living , and , when he grew towards age , was portly of waist ...
... scenery which is so special a mark of the later poets . He lived thus a double life , in and out of the world , but never a gloomy one . For he was fond of mirth and good - living , and , when he grew towards age , was portly of waist ...
Side 80
... scenery in Scotland , from the earliest times of its poetry , such as is not seen in English poetry till the time of Wordsworth . The second is the love of color . All early Scottish poetry differs from English in the extraordinary way ...
... scenery in Scotland , from the earliest times of its poetry , such as is not seen in English poetry till the time of Wordsworth . The second is the love of color . All early Scottish poetry differs from English in the extraordinary way ...
Side 81
... scenery of their own land that the poets describe . Even when they are imitating Chaucer , they do not imitate his conventional landscape . They put in a Scotch landscape , and , in the work of such men as Gawin Douglas , the love of ...
... scenery of their own land that the poets describe . Even when they are imitating Chaucer , they do not imitate his conventional landscape . They put in a Scotch landscape , and , in the work of such men as Gawin Douglas , the love of ...
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