English Language and Literary Criticism: English poetryPotter, 1882 |
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... speak in another chapter . The metrical romances of the Trouvères probably took their rise from the historical odes sung in pagan times by the Scandinavian bards ; for the Normans , we should re- member , were of the Scandinavian stock ...
... speak in another chapter . The metrical romances of the Trouvères probably took their rise from the historical odes sung in pagan times by the Scandinavian bards ; for the Normans , we should re- member , were of the Scandinavian stock ...
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... speak . The story ends by relating the treason of Sir Mordred , who allies himself with the invading Saxons . A great battle is fought in Cornwall on the river Camlan , and Arthur is slain at the hands of the traitor . But a company of ...
... speak . The story ends by relating the treason of Sir Mordred , who allies himself with the invading Saxons . A great battle is fought in Cornwall on the river Camlan , and Arthur is slain at the hands of the traitor . But a company of ...
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... speak in future chapters . The student may find it profitable to study portions of his best works , and , in the case of his longer poems , to institute a comparison between his genius and that of his great contemporary , Sir Walter ...
... speak in future chapters . The student may find it profitable to study portions of his best works , and , in the case of his longer poems , to institute a comparison between his genius and that of his great contemporary , Sir Walter ...
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... speak no word but Latin ; his companion , " a gentil Pardonere , " who carried a wallet packed with indulgences from Rome , and with stones and " pigge's bones , " which he sold as relics . These , with the Host of the Tabard and ...
... speak no word but Latin ; his companion , " a gentil Pardonere , " who carried a wallet packed with indulgences from Rome , and with stones and " pigge's bones , " which he sold as relics . These , with the Host of the Tabard and ...
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... speak very briefly . The Prioress's Tale is the legend of a “ litel clergion , sevene year of age , " who sang wherever he went , " O Alma redemptoris , " and who , after he had been foully murdered by the Jews , continued to sing the ...
... speak very briefly . The Prioress's Tale is the legend of a “ litel clergion , sevene year of age , " who sang wherever he went , " O Alma redemptoris , " and who , after he had been foully murdered by the Jews , continued to sing the ...
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Página 386 - Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me : — ' Pipe a song about a lamb : ' So I piped with merry cheer. ' Piper, pipe that song again : ' So I piped ; he wept to hear.
Página 359 - Those are Grecian ghosts, that in battle were slain And unburied remain Inglorious on the plain : Give the vengeance due To the valiant crew ! Behold how they toss their torches on high, How they point to the Persian abodes And glittering temples of their hostile gods.
Página 545 - IT WAS many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of ANNABEL LEE; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.
Página 313 - Only with speeches fair She woos the gentle air To hide her guilty front with innocent snow, And on her naked shame, Pollute with sinful blame, The saintly veil of maiden white to throw; Confounded, that her Maker's eyes Should look so near upon her foul deformities.
Página 375 - The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends on me ; my spirit's bark is driven Far from the shore, far from the trembling throng Whose sails were never to the tempest given ; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven ! I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar ; Whilst burning through the inmost veil of Heaven, The soul of Adonais, like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are.
Página 460 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Página 544 - or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore; But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping, And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you" — here I opened wide the door — Darkness there and nothing more.
Página 348 - Her home is on the deep. With thunders from her native oak, She quells the floods below, — As they roar on the shore, When the stormy winds do blow, When the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow.
Página 332 - Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight. I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints.
Página 346 - Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go mark him well...