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... sense . About the relative importance of the two and the amount of confidence which should be placed in them there will always be heart - searchings . We may believe with Meredith that humanity , " an army marching out of wilderness ...
... sense . About the relative importance of the two and the amount of confidence which should be placed in them there will always be heart - searchings . We may believe with Meredith that humanity , " an army marching out of wilderness ...
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... sense . About the relative importance of the two and the amount of confidence which should be placed in them there will always be heart - searchings . We may believe with Meredith that humanity , " an army marching out of wilderness ...
... sense . About the relative importance of the two and the amount of confidence which should be placed in them there will always be heart - searchings . We may believe with Meredith that humanity , " an army marching out of wilderness ...
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... the first works that we can still read with a sense that , however antique the form of his words , the vocabulary and the style are Modern English . CHAPTER 2. GEOFFREY CHAUCER Translations : Roman de la Rose CHAP . I ] 5 GENERAL VIEW.
... the first works that we can still read with a sense that , however antique the form of his words , the vocabulary and the style are Modern English . CHAPTER 2. GEOFFREY CHAUCER Translations : Roman de la Rose CHAP . I ] 5 GENERAL VIEW.
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... sense , he knows nothing , but only of the material ones which Fortune can bring about , and to the victims of these he is very pitiful . It is no accident that the line " For pitee renneth sore in gentil herte " is three times adapted ...
... sense , he knows nothing , but only of the material ones which Fortune can bring about , and to the victims of these he is very pitiful . It is no accident that the line " For pitee renneth sore in gentil herte " is three times adapted ...
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... sense , and had no occasion for jealousy . He was an aristocrat in his sympathies , bitterly hostile to the peasantry and to the reformers . His Vox Clamantis contains some violent satire of recreant clergy and friars , but it is the ...
... sense , and had no occasion for jealousy . He was an aristocrat in his sympathies , bitterly hostile to the peasantry and to the reformers . His Vox Clamantis contains some violent satire of recreant clergy and friars , but it is the ...
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Page 214 - Dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature. God's image ; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself ; killfe the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Page 163 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised: thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet.
Page 145 - And when we meet at any time again. Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain.
Page 162 - And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.
Page 305 - When lovely woman stoops to folly. And finds, too late, that men betray. What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away? The only art her guilt to cover. To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom, — is to die.
Page 534 - From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
Page 305 - These, far departing, seek a kinder shore, And rural mirth and manners are no more. Sweet Auburn ! parent of the blissful hour, Thy glades forlorn confess the tyrant's power. Here as I take my solitary rounds, Amidst thy tangling walks and...
Page 214 - ... not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse. We should be wary, therefore, what persecution we raise against the living labours of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books...
Page 141 - And who, in time, knows whither we may vent The treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores This gain of our best glory shall be sent, T' enrich unknowing nations with our stores? What worlds in th' yet unformed Occident May come refined with th
Page 278 - Now Giant Despair had a wife, and her name was Diffidence: so, when he was gone to bed, he told his wife what he had done, to wit, that he had taken a couple of prisoners, and cast them into his dungeon for trespassing on his grounds. Then, he asked her, also, what he had best do further with them.