A history of English literature for junior classesWilliam Collins, 1881 - 253 עמודים |
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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 59
עמוד 10
... called alliteration , and here is a specimen of it from Cadmon- He aerest ge - scéop ylda bearnum heofon to hrófe halig scyppend He first created , for the children of men , heaven as a roof , the holy Creator . It Previous to the sixth ...
... called alliteration , and here is a specimen of it from Cadmon- He aerest ge - scéop ylda bearnum heofon to hrófe halig scyppend He first created , for the children of men , heaven as a roof , the holy Creator . It Previous to the sixth ...
עמוד 12
... called Trouvères , and their works were mostly stories , in great measure inventions of their own . The language in which they wrote was corruption of Latin- -a Roman dialect ; hence the works so written were called Romances . There ...
... called Trouvères , and their works were mostly stories , in great measure inventions of their own . The language in which they wrote was corruption of Latin- -a Roman dialect ; hence the works so written were called Romances . There ...
עמוד 13
... called Semi - Saxon . The best example of it is to be found in the Brut , or Chronicle of Britain , by LAYAMON . Here are four lines from it which will show that the words were getting more English - like than in the last quotation ...
... called Semi - Saxon . The best example of it is to be found in the Brut , or Chronicle of Britain , by LAYAMON . Here are four lines from it which will show that the words were getting more English - like than in the last quotation ...
עמוד 14
... called it , but is essentially Saxon . CHAPTER II . THE AGE OF CHAUCER . A.D. 1350-1400 . Amalgamation of Normans and Saxons - Peculiarities of tho Language at this time . POETRY . - Piers Ploughman - Geof- frey Chaucer - the Canterbury ...
... called it , but is essentially Saxon . CHAPTER II . THE AGE OF CHAUCER . A.D. 1350-1400 . Amalgamation of Normans and Saxons - Peculiarities of tho Language at this time . POETRY . - Piers Ploughman - Geof- frey Chaucer - the Canterbury ...
עמוד 16
... called the Vision of Piers Ploughman , and was written by WILLIAM LANGLAND , about the year 1362 . The principal object of its author seems to have been to chastise the priests of the time for the wicked way in which they lived . The ...
... called the Vision of Piers Ploughman , and was written by WILLIAM LANGLAND , about the year 1362 . The principal object of its author seems to have been to chastise the priests of the time for the wicked way in which they lived . The ...
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עמוד 50 - Where some, like magistrates, correct at home ; Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad ; Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds...
עמוד 92 - On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood. Robed in the sable garb of woe. With haggard eyes the poet stood; (Loose his beard, and hoary hair Streamed, like a meteor, to the troubled air), And with a master's hand, and prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre.
עמוד 107 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree...
עמוד 48 - If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle: I remember The first time ever Caesar put it on; 'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent; That day he overcame the Nervii : — Look ! In this place ran Cassius...
עמוד 147 - ON Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden, saw another sight, When the drum beat, at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
עמוד 186 - Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied — We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died. " For when the morn came dim and sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed — she had Another morn than ours.
עמוד 49 - This was the most unkindest cut of all ; For when the noble Caesar saw him stab, Ingratitude, more strong than traitors...
עמוד 27 - The turtle to her make hath told her tale. Summer is come, for every spray now springs : The hart hath hung his old head on the pale ; The buck in brake his winter coat he flings ; The fishes flete with new repaired scale.
עמוד 53 - Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I'll not look for wine.
עמוד 69 - Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle, multiform; and mix And nourish all things; let your ceaseless change Vary to our Great Maker still new praise. Ye mists and exhalations, that now rise From hill or steaming lake, dusky or gray, Till the sun paint your fleecy skirts with gold, In honour to the world's Great Author rise...