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... poet says : " Beowulf girded him , Wore his war - armor ; not for life was he anxious . The linked coat of mail ... poets were in- spired by the deeds of warriors , and their work is full not only of battle scenes , but also of the ...
... poet says : " Beowulf girded him , Wore his war - armor ; not for life was he anxious . The linked coat of mail ... poets were in- spired by the deeds of warriors , and their work is full not only of battle scenes , but also of the ...
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... poet of the soil , who sang because he was commanded . Thus has it ever been when the unaffected poetry of nature has its birth . 750 . Aside from Cædmon , the only one of the Old Eng- lish poets known to us by name is Cynewulf ...
... poet of the soil , who sang because he was commanded . Thus has it ever been when the unaffected poetry of nature has its birth . 750 . Aside from Cædmon , the only one of the Old Eng- lish poets known to us by name is Cynewulf ...
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... poet's patron and protector . It was a confused but eventful epoch in English history , a period of foreign war and civil strife . When Geof- frey Chaucer was a boy of five or six , the English won the historic victory of Crécy ; ten ...
... poet's patron and protector . It was a confused but eventful epoch in English history , a period of foreign war and civil strife . When Geof- frey Chaucer was a boy of five or six , the English won the historic victory of Crécy ; ten ...
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... poet . In the fall of that very year , 1373 , Boccaccio was to commence in Flor- ence a series of public lectures on the Divine Comedy of Dante , the great world - poet of medievalism , who had died some fifty years before . ences ...
... poet . In the fall of that very year , 1373 , Boccaccio was to commence in Flor- ence a series of public lectures on the Divine Comedy of Dante , the great world - poet of medievalism , who had died some fifty years before . ences ...
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... poet's greatest success . This is the Troilus and Criseyde , a love romance based upon a much longer poem , Il Filostrato , or Love's Victim , by Boccaccio . Chaucer's poem contains over 8000 lines , and not more than a third of the ...
... poet's greatest success . This is the Troilus and Criseyde , a love romance based upon a much longer poem , Il Filostrato , or Love's Victim , by Boccaccio . Chaucer's poem contains over 8000 lines , and not more than a third of the ...
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Page 313 - Guid faith he mauna fa' that. For a' that, and a' that, Their dignities, and a' that ; The pith o' sense, and pride o' worth, Are higher rank than a that. Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that ; That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, and a' that. For a
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 121 - Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts ; Into a thousand parts divide one man, And make imaginary puissance ; Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i...
Page 452 - FLOWER in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower — but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is.
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 197 - Alas ! what boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely, slighted, shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse ? Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair...
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 205 - Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more.