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... Principle of Anglo - Saxon poetry - Its char- acteristics Value of Anglo - Saxon literature - " Beowulf " Other poems Alfred the Great Cadmon , PAGE 9 • II . MIDDLE ENGLISH OR FORMATIVE PERIOD . Limits of period quest ( 1066-1400 ...
... Principle of Anglo - Saxon poetry - Its char- acteristics Value of Anglo - Saxon literature - " Beowulf " Other poems Alfred the Great Cadmon , PAGE 9 • II . MIDDLE ENGLISH OR FORMATIVE PERIOD . Limits of period quest ( 1066-1400 ...
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... Principle of Anglo - Saxon poetry - Its characteristics — Value of Anglo - Saxon literature Cadmon , " Beowulf " - Other poems Alfred the Great . THE English nation , like the English language , is com- posite . The principal element in ...
... Principle of Anglo - Saxon poetry - Its characteristics — Value of Anglo - Saxon literature Cadmon , " Beowulf " - Other poems Alfred the Great . THE English nation , like the English language , is com- posite . The principal element in ...
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... principle of Anglo - Saxon poetry is not rhyme nor metre , but alliteration . Each line is divided into two parts by a cæsura , and two principal words of the first hemis- tich , and one of the second , regularly begin with the same ...
... principle of Anglo - Saxon poetry is not rhyme nor metre , but alliteration . Each line is divided into two parts by a cæsura , and two principal words of the first hemis- tich , and one of the second , regularly begin with the same ...
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... principles . In spite of certain faults of style and defects of reasoning , his work has remained ever since an authority . When Pope Clement said that he had never met with an English writer that deserved the name of author , he was ...
... principles . In spite of certain faults of style and defects of reasoning , his work has remained ever since an authority . When Pope Clement said that he had never met with an English writer that deserved the name of author , he was ...
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... principles established , it was of course easy to defend the particular rites and ceremonies of the Church of England . The following passage , with which the first book of the " Ecclesiastical Polity " closes , has often been quoted ...
... principles established , it was of course easy to defend the particular rites and ceremonies of the Church of England . The following passage , with which the first book of the " Ecclesiastical Polity " closes , has often been quoted ...
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Page 622 - I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally, And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, And half a hundred bridges.
Page 459 - He is made one with Nature : there is heard His voice in all her music, from the moan Of thunder, to the song of night's sweet bird ; He is a presence to be felt and known In darkness and in light, from herb and stone, Spreading itself where'er that Power may move Which has withdrawn his being to its own ; Which wields the world with never wearied love, Sustains it from beneath, and kindles it above.
Page 112 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope ; to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Prince's grace, yet want her peer?
Page 409 - I see before me the gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low ; And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him ; he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Page 100 - Even such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust ; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days ; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust ! ELIZABETHAN MISCELLANIES.
Page 130 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Page 142 - tis true I have gone here and there And made myself a motley to the view, Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear, Made old offences of affections new.
Page 179 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Page 253 - Peace to all such! But were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please. And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne; View him with scornful, yev with jealous eyes.
Page 258 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind: His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way: Yet simple Nature to his hope has given.