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... nature and form lay hidden in the darkness of fog and night . The poem of Beowulf supplies many vivid picturings of early English life and manners ; the hero of the poem is really the idealization of the Anglo - Saxon himself . That ...
... nature and form lay hidden in the darkness of fog and night . The poem of Beowulf supplies many vivid picturings of early English life and manners ; the hero of the poem is really the idealization of the Anglo - Saxon himself . That ...
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... nature they were impressed by the elemen- tal phenomena of storm and climate , the descent of winter , the birth of spring . As they delighted in the narrative of conflict , so they loved to picture man's struggle with the sea and to ...
... nature they were impressed by the elemen- tal phenomena of storm and climate , the descent of winter , the birth of spring . As they delighted in the narrative of conflict , so they loved to picture man's struggle with the sea and to ...
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... nature has its birth . Cynewulf , 750 . 99 Aside from Cędmon , the only one of the Old Eng- lish poets known to us by name is Cynewulf , a writer of great influence and a poet of gen- born about uine power . Yet Cynewulf's actual person ...
... nature has its birth . Cynewulf , 750 . 99 Aside from Cędmon , the only one of the Old Eng- lish poets known to us by name is Cynewulf , a writer of great influence and a poet of gen- born about uine power . Yet Cynewulf's actual person ...
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... natural , almost the spontaneous form adopted by those who are moved to express thought or emotion with any effort toward artistic ef- fect . Such utterance comes in moments of exaltation , unpremeditated . In these moods men become ...
... natural , almost the spontaneous form adopted by those who are moved to express thought or emotion with any effort toward artistic ef- fect . Such utterance comes in moments of exaltation , unpremeditated . In these moods men become ...
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... natural tendency was toward assimilation , and in the end the result was the same as it had been in France : the native tongue triumphed over that of the invader . The Norman - French became Anglo - Norman , and finally English . In ...
... natural tendency was toward assimilation , and in the end the result was the same as it had been in France : the native tongue triumphed over that of the invader . The Norman - French became Anglo - Norman , and finally English . In ...
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Page 121 - Think , when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i' th' receiving earth; For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings Carry them here and there, jumping o'er times, Turning...
Page 204 - Her finger was so small, the ring, Would not stay on, which they did bring, It was too wide a peck: And to say truth (for out it must) It looked like the great collar (just) About our young colt's neck. Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they fear'd the light: But O she dances such a way!
Page 287 - Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help...
Page 120 - On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object; can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt?
Page 434 - I go to prove my soul ! I see my way as birds their trackless way. I shall arrive ! what time, what circuit first, I ask not : but unless God send his hail Or blinding fireballs, sleet or stifling snow, In some time, his good time, I shall arrive : He guides me and the bird. In his good time ! Mich.
Page 145 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
Page 456 - Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight.
Page 398 - Be no longer a Chaos, but a World, or even Worldkin. Produce! Produce! Were it but the pitifullest infinitesimal fraction of a Product, produce it, in God's name! 'Tis the utmost thou hast in thee: out with it, then. Up, up! Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy whole might. Work while it is called Today; for the Night cometh, wherein no man can work.
Page 204 - Out upon it, I have loved Three whole days together! And am like to love three more. If it prove fair weather. Time shall moult away his wings Ere he shall discover In the whole wide world again Such a constant lover.
Page 228 - Steele had left college without taking a degree, had been disinherited by a rich relation, had led a vagrant life, had served in the army, had tried to find the philosopher's stone, and had written a religious treatise and several comedies. He was one of those people whom it is impossible either to hate or to respect. His temper was sweet, his affections warm, his spirits lively, his passions strong, and his principles weak. His life was spent in sinning and repenting ; in inculcating what was right,...