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
... poem , written about 670 , is for us the beginning of English poetry , and the story of its origin ought to be loved by us . Nor should we fail to reverence the place where it began . Above the small and land - locked harbor of Whitby ...
... poem , written about 670 , is for us the beginning of English poetry , and the story of its origin ought to be loved by us . Nor should we fail to reverence the place where it began . Above the small and land - locked harbor of Whitby ...
Side 28
... poetry , but it is also famous for its likeness to a parallel passage in Milton . It is when Cadmon describes the proud and angry cry of Satan against God from his bed of chains in hell . The two great English poets may be brought ...
... poetry , but it is also famous for its likeness to a parallel passage in Milton . It is when Cadmon describes the proud and angry cry of Satan against God from his bed of chains in hell . The two great English poets may be brought ...
Side 38
... poem , into importance , and was written by a people made up of Norman and Englishman welded into one by the fight ... poetry . The poetry , we say , for in this revival the literature was only poeti- cal . All prose , with the exception ...
... poem , into importance , and was written by a people made up of Norman and Englishman welded into one by the fight ... poetry . The poetry , we say , for in this revival the literature was only poeti- cal . All prose , with the exception ...
Side 39
... poetry of the court and of high society , a literary in contrast with a popular , poetry . But even in this the spirit of the poetry is English , though the manner is French . Chaucer becomes less French and even less Italian , till at ...
... poetry of the court and of high society , a literary in contrast with a popular , poetry . But even in this the spirit of the poetry is English , though the manner is French . Chaucer becomes less French and even less Italian , till at ...
Side 41
... poem made him in that year , and again in the year 1393 , send forth two more texts of his poem . In these texts he added to the original Vision the poems of Do Wel , Do Bet , and Do Best . In 1399 he wrote at Bristol his last poem ...
... poem made him in that year , and again in the year 1393 , send forth two more texts of his poem . In these texts he added to the original Vision the poems of Do Wel , Do Bet , and Do Best . In 1399 he wrote at Bristol his last poem ...
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