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... poetic literature is older than prose literature , since meter and rhythm are very great aids to the memory . When letters were invented , the written document gradually displaced 9 is memory , until at present everything that is ...
... poetic literature is older than prose literature , since meter and rhythm are very great aids to the memory . When letters were invented , the written document gradually displaced 9 is memory , until at present everything that is ...
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... poetic , race , and it would be absurd to look for the harmony of Greek poetry in their verse . Still more absurd would it be to look for the technical finish and the refined con- ceptions of the poetry of a later civilization . They ...
... poetic , race , and it would be absurd to look for the harmony of Greek poetry in their verse . Still more absurd would it be to look for the technical finish and the refined con- ceptions of the poetry of a later civilization . They ...
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... poetic , though sometimes degenerating into fan- ciful and affected absurdities , also took firm root in England under the Norman kings and their successors . The social code , even of manners , influences literature , but the social ...
... poetic , though sometimes degenerating into fan- ciful and affected absurdities , also took firm root in England under the Norman kings and their successors . The social code , even of manners , influences literature , but the social ...
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... poet of the next period . Literatura of the Anglo - Nor- man Period . It The great intellectual activity of the ... poets have drawn ever since . The rhymed chronicle and the romance in various forms , the allegor- ical or didactic poem ...
... poet of the next period . Literatura of the Anglo - Nor- man Period . It The great intellectual activity of the ... poets have drawn ever since . The rhymed chronicle and the romance in various forms , the allegor- ical or didactic poem ...
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... poets , theo- logians , chroniclers , and romancers , -Robert of Gloucester be mentioned , not on account of any great ... poetic art . The following extract shows that the language ( the Gloucestershire dialect ) was not much different ...
... poets , theo- logians , chroniclers , and romancers , -Robert of Gloucester be mentioned , not on account of any great ... poetic art . The following extract shows that the language ( the Gloucestershire dialect ) was not much different ...
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Page 338 - What thou art we know not ; What is most like thee ? From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody.
Page 324 - It ceased ; yet still the sails made on A pleasant noise till noon, A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.
Page 469 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way...
Page 341 - He has outsoared the shadow of our night; Envy and calumny and hate and pain, And that unrest which men miscall delight, Can touch him not and torture not again...
Page 338 - Like a glow-worm golden In a dell of dew, Scattering unbeholden Its aerial hue Among the flowers and grass which screen it from the view...
Page 158 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Page 339 - What objects are the fountains Of thy happy strain ? What fields, or waves, or mountains ? What shapes of sky or plain ? What love of thine own kind ? what ignorance of pain ? With thy clear, keen joyance Languor cannot be : Shadow of annoyance Never came near thee : Thou lovest, but ne'er knew love's sad satiety.
Page 233 - Fear no more the frown o' the great; Thou art past the tyrant's stroke; Care no more to clothe and eat; To thee the reed is as the oak : The sceptre, learning, physic, must All follow this, and come to dust.
Page 341 - Peace, peace ! he is not dead, he doth not sleep — He hath awakened from the dream of life — 'Tis we, who, lost in stormy visions, keep With phantoms an unprofitable strife, And in mad trance strike with our spirit's knife Invulnerable nothings.
Page 213 - CYRIACK, this three years day these eyes, though clear, To outward view, of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot ; Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope ; but still bear up and steer Right onward.