English Poetry and PoetsEstes & Lauriat, 1890 - 506 páginas |
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... writing belonging to the priests , to whom at one period the art seems to have been wholly confined . The Runic alphabet has but sixteen characters . From the similarity of the Runic signs to corresponding Roman ones , it has been ...
... writing belonging to the priests , to whom at one period the art seems to have been wholly confined . The Runic alphabet has but sixteen characters . From the similarity of the Runic signs to corresponding Roman ones , it has been ...
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Sarah Warner Brooks. seem to prove that the art or custom of writing on rocks is Asiatic . The most ancient specimens of the Norse language are the rune - stones , rings , and wooden tablets , with inscrip- tions in the old Runic ...
Sarah Warner Brooks. seem to prove that the art or custom of writing on rocks is Asiatic . The most ancient specimens of the Norse language are the rune - stones , rings , and wooden tablets , with inscrip- tions in the old Runic ...
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... writing their compositions , and founded the antiquity of their families on the authority of their poems . The descendants of the Celts who inhabited Britain and its Isles were , it is averred , not singular in this method of preserving ...
... writing their compositions , and founded the antiquity of their families on the authority of their poems . The descendants of the Celts who inhabited Britain and its Isles were , it is averred , not singular in this method of preserving ...
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... writer refers the origin of all modern poetry , would listen to no other songs but such as were composed in their own Norman - French . Yet as the great mass of the native gentry and populace could only understand their own tongue , it ...
... writer refers the origin of all modern poetry , would listen to no other songs but such as were composed in their own Norman - French . Yet as the great mass of the native gentry and populace could only understand their own tongue , it ...
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... writer : — " The Englishmen were more than a whole year without hear- ing any tydings of their king , or in what place he was kept prisoner . He had trained up in his court a rimer , or Minstrell , called Blondel ; who being so long ...
... writer : — " The Englishmen were more than a whole year without hear- ing any tydings of their king , or in what place he was kept prisoner . He had trained up in his court a rimer , or Minstrell , called Blondel ; who being so long ...
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Página 159 - Going to the Wars 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.
Página 247 - Wept o'er his wounds or tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.
Página 191 - Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence. How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled...
Página 361 - Seemed to have known a better day; The harp, his sole remaining joy. Was carried by an orphan boy. The last of all the Bards was he. Who sung of Border chivalry: For, welladay!
Página 146 - Be not afeard ; the isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears ; and sometime voices, That, if I then had wak'd after long sleep, Will make me sleep again : and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open, and show riches Ready to drop upon me ; that, when I wak'd, I cried to dream again.
Página 306 - The floating clouds their state shall lend To her; for her the willow bend; Nor shall she fail to see Even in the motions of the Storm Grace that shall mould the Maiden's form By silent sympathy. 'The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.
Página 131 - Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill: But their strong nerves at last must yield; They tame but one another still: Early or late They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath, When they, pale captives, creep to death.
Página 202 - Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.
Página 171 - The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and gapes for drink again. The plants suck in the earth, and are With constant drinking fresh and fair.
Página 185 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem...